F
SPRING 2016
Studio Critic
Sal Tranchina
Team
Elysse Irizarry
07
The boathouse is a result of the effects of the site; forces of land and water that combat one another for dominance, pushing along a central curved axis, where the building grounds itself and finds its natural balance. The programs shift to bring themselves either focused on the “land side” or the “sea side,” where they settle and exist in a continuous structural truss system that only changes by the needs of the program. The “land side” and “sea side” programs alternate, allowing for the building to maintain a specific and tender balance that could only be found through this alternating relationship between the volumes of the program.