72 burbank st

72 burbank st

Boston, MA (Fenway)

To develop the design for the project we studied the existing context extensively. Out of that analysis we discovered that the site formed the end of a large urban room where the sidewalk narrows. Second to that we wanted to build off the rhythm of the bays of the existing masonry buildings.

As a result our building starts aligned with the existing building to the east then folds out to meet the adjacent building across an alley. The result of this twist in the geometry of the street façade, is that our building forms a new, modernized “bay”. Behind our folded masonry façade we then extrude a volume which then negotiates the two adjacent contrasting heights.

Client: Forest Properties