One Main

1, Main Street, Boston, MA, United States

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One Main

1, Main Street, Boston, MA, United States

Firm

dECOi Architects

Type

Commercial › Office

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2010

Photos

dECOi Architects (35), decoi architects / Anton Grassl (1)

An office refurbishment that relentlessly deploys numeric command machining of sustainable plywood to evidence the versatility and efficiency available via CAD-CAM design-build processes. The project displaces the combinatorial logic of ready-made components typical of late-industrial process for a seamless and non-standard protocol of customized fabrication. A formal aesthetic emerges from these processes , imbuing the design with a curvilinear continuity at a detail and spatial level.

In a material sense, the project assumes a radical environmental agenda, using a sustainable and carbon-absorbing raw material (forested spruce), translated efficiently into refined and functional elements via dexterous low-energy digital tooling.

CREDITS: dECOi Architects: Mark Goulthorpe (Principal), Raphael Crespin (Project Architect), Gabriel Blue Cira, Matt Trimble, Pritanka Shah, Dr Alex Scott - Gensler Architects: Pablo Garcia, Helen Heitman - Tricore: Paul Jacobsen( General Contractor) - CWKeller: Shawn Keller (Millwork) - ARUP: Lighting Engineer