East Boston Multi-Family Apartment Complex

About this Project

In initiating our urban design, we focused on analyzing existing site conditions within the adjacent urban fabric. The replication of the existing Border Street within our site, as well as extending urban corridors onto the site with the intent of guiding pedestrians towards the waterfront and public beaches. A harbor walk wraps the entire waterfront and resolves back into the existing sidewalk with portal entries into the site where the principal organizing axis meets the harbor walk. In designing the waterfront, the analysis of the anticipated impact of rising sea levels allowed the collaboration of each beach and waterfront to the extent of which the buildings occupy.