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Community Rowing Boathouse
Community Rowing Boathouse
Boston, MA, United States
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Community Rowing Boathouse
Boston, MA, United States
Project Featured on Apr 07, 2014
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YEAR
2008
Since the completion of its new buildings by AW, CRI has grown from a small cadre of rowers with no permanent home, to one of the largest rowing organizations in the country, operating from the ethos of “Rowing For All”. Unlike the many boathouses on the Charles River that share a Victorian building typology, the new CRI boathouses embody regional precedents such as covered bridges and tobacco barns. The CRI buildings are designed to flexible, adaptable, and open. As such, the buildings are transparent, kinetic, and sustainable. The design has given CRI a compelling identity that distinguishes it from its elite neighbors, and easily attracts rowers across every spectrum.
The project prioritizes sustainability initiatives that restore a habitat damaged by years of misuse, and demonstrate its stewardship of the Charles River Reservation. A wall assembly of responsibly sourced composite wood panels naturally ventilates the main boat bay, and other building systems include geothermal wells, PV arrays, stormwater management, rainwater re-use systems, and improved soil permeability support the immediate natural environment. Many recreational paths and roads converge at CRI, but site constraints presented challenges for moving hundreds of boats across public ways to the river the boathouse. In response, boats are stored and launched parallel to the river convening in a common courtyard that allows for turning, and also makes a public gateway to the river.
As the only public-access rowing club on the Charles River, Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI) brings rowing to all levels of the socioeconomic spectrum and offers innovative programs for urban youth, the physically disabled, and veterans. Public access fosters connections among rowers, neighbors, and visitors. On-site R&D, equipment production, and curriculum innovation engage users from around the world. Programming has expanded to include elite international athletes, as well as competitive and recreational rowers. The story of CRI is the story of shared experience and aspirations, an iconic institutional home that grows community and amplifies its impact.
The CRI buildings use custom designed glass shingles on the sculling pavilion, and large-scale, hand operable wood panels that open and close the large boat bay. This innovative, kinetic cladding literally alters the shape of the building and its relationship to the landscape. Surfaces transform with the sun’s movement during the day and with users’ movement around the building, not unlike a rowing shell’s rhythmic punctuations in the fluid medium of the river.
The project prioritizes sustainability initiatives that restore a habitat damaged by years of misuse, and demonstrate its stewardship of the Charles River Reservation. A wall assembly of responsibly sourced composite wood panels naturally ventilates the main boat bay, and other building systems include geothermal wells, PV arrays, stormwater management, rainwater re-use systems, and improved soil permeability support the immediate natural environment. Many recreational paths and roads converge at CRI, but site constraints presented challenges for moving hundreds of boats across public ways to the river the boathouse. In response, boats are stored and launched parallel to the river convening in a common courtyard that allows for turning, and also makes a public gateway to the river.
As the only public-access rowing club on the Charles River, Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI) brings rowing to all levels of the socioeconomic spectrum and offers innovative programs for urban youth, the physically disabled, and veterans. Public access fosters connections among rowers, neighbors, and visitors. On-site R&D, equipment production, and curriculum innovation engage users from around the world. Programming has expanded to include elite international athletes, as well as competitive and recreational rowers. The story of CRI is the story of shared experience and aspirations, an iconic institutional home that grows community and amplifies its impact.
The CRI buildings use custom designed glass shingles on the sculling pavilion, and large-scale, hand operable wood panels that open and close the large boat bay. This innovative, kinetic cladding literally alters the shape of the building and its relationship to the landscape. Surfaces transform with the sun’s movement during the day and with users’ movement around the building, not unlike a rowing shell’s rhythmic punctuations in the fluid medium of the river.
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