Back Bay Community Rowing

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Back Bay Community Rowing

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3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

This is a proposal for a community boat house. Programmatic requirements include storage facilities for rowing shells and equipment, offices for coaches and administrators, as well as an area that could host community events and functions.The site is located on the Esplanade along the Charles River in Boston Massachusetts. The design is informed by rigorous site analysis and directly responds to specific site conditions, such as site morphology and circulation of pedestrian traffic (both formal and informal).Inspiration comes from a tree on site, whose roots have exposed creating a disruption in the linear continuity of an informal path formed by foot traffic. The structure is meant to create a disruption that will generate new interactions of people and site.The main focus was human interaction (formal and informal) with the site and its elements. The structure is an organic part of the site, a built element, which interacts with foot traffic by means of disrupting the linear flow of traffic at this particular locale, and creating a distortion through constant change of direction. People can either walk by it, or walk on it; also the structure becomes a surface of interaction even when the boat house is closed for operation. This notion of constant change in direction is also carried out in the interior. Once past the main entrance (threshold) the visitor is greeted by a sharp corner; one must walk around that corner in order to experience the open rowing shell storage that is flooded with natural light (daytime). In terms of program, the interior is one big flexible multi purpose space that is subdivided by sliding floor?to?ceiling partitions. The flexibility of the interior allows for the accommodation of a vast number of uses within the structure.

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Christos Ntanas

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Back Bay Community Rowing

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