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标签：美国波士顿街边阁楼居住建筑 Merge Architects Inc

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设计方：Merge Architects Inc

位置：美国

分类：居住建筑

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设计团队：Allison Austin, Deb Katz, Parker Lee, Jamie Pelletier

承包方：Delvecchio Construction

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摄影师：John Horner Photography

这是由Merge Architects Inc设计的街边阁楼，位于美国波士顿。该项目为一座新的九户居住楼，坐落在东波士顿海滨的一个小而独特的场地上，周边则是Jeffries Point住宅区、活跃的造船厂、公共艺术画廊及咖啡馆。该项目设计主要采用工业化的材料，意图以现代的设计方式与场地相融合，同时消除建筑与城市之间的边界。

该建筑离地高度上以独特的几何形式构成外立面设计，通透的大堂向建筑自身的环境及周围的邻里间展示着其构造设计，立面上的穿孔板模糊地界定建筑内的私人空间及街道上的公共空间，停车空间及大堂的开放式设计则如同街道的延伸一般。建筑精致而工业化的外立面与开放式大堂从而成为城市景观的一部分，同时实现该建筑的居民与周边社区之间的共享：攀岩植物为主的绿色混凝土街道，夏日居民可在此乘凉；而大堂则成为一个轮流陈展的艺术展厅。

译者：筑龙网艾比

From the architect. This new nine-unit residential building occupies a small but unique site on the waterfront in East Boston. Located between the residential neighborhood of Jeffries Point and an active shipyard, public art gallery and cafe, the design utilizes industrial materials to effect a contemporary interpretation of context while dissolving the boundary between building and city. Planning limitations, including height restrictions imposed by neighbors, parking requirements from the city, and the developer’s desire to provide water views for every unit, presented an opportunity to strategically rework standard residential typologies. The result is tube-like stacked units opportunistically interlocked to effect sectional and proportional shifts within the space of the unit. Living, dining, and cooking areas on the front of the building are compressed and horizontal, leading the eye through a series of layered spaces toward framed views of the water and theBoston skyline beyond. Sleeping spaces in the rear of the building are compact in plan and tall in section, focusing the eye upward.

On its façade, the building mixes an industrial material palette of corrugated steel and cable mesh with warm red cedar siding reminiscent of its triple-decker neighbors. The architects worked closely with a highly skilled team of metal workers to develop a fabrication method for the façade frame and attachment detail for the wire mesh, ultimately combining factory labor and the handmade. Each wire-mesh panel was partially fabricated by the mesh manufacturer in the factory and then painstakingly handwoven into the cables defining the edge of each facet on site.

The unique geometry of the façade, elevation of the building off the ground, and transparency of the lobby perform a tectonic negotiation between the territory of the building and the surrounding neighborhood. The porous boundary of the mesh façade pushes the private space of the unit into the public space of the street, while the parking void and lobby become an extension of the sidewalk. The façade and lobby thus becomes an amenity shared between the building’s residents and the neighborhood: climbing plants both green a predominantly concrete streetscape and provides shade for the residents in the summer, while the lobby acts as a display case for a rotating art exhibition visible from within as well as the street.