CITY SHED

CITY SHED is a proposed community center and sports shed featuring basketball, tennis, and pickleball courts in addition to sheltered and unsheltered parks. The project was derived from intitial field observations of the neighborhood and program of the current site, a somewhat delapidated park in the North End in Boston, MA. From these observations, it was made clear that the program of “park” is inherently public, and has no true belonging to a certain demographic or organization as an innate materialization of community. The ethos of this project is, at its core, public.

It was important to consider the accessibility and openness of my intervention on a variety of scales. So, this project became about scale, or rather, the dissolution of scale. The basic diagram of the structure exists on a spectrum of most enclosed, completely interior to least enclosed, completely exterior.This, in addition to the presence of long-span interior spaces, is made possible through a combination of CLT and Glulam timber composed in a deep-beam configuration. Another defining moment of the project is the invasion of landscape against structure. The landscape reclaims its permanence by penetrating the otherwise rigid structure, becoming activated by spectatorship as it becomes viewing platforms at certain moments.

Core 02

DESIGN CRITIC: EMMETT ZEIFMAN

Exterior Rendering