Revise, Resubmit︎︎︎
Type: Mixed-use, Adaptive Reuse
Location: Boston
Size: 100,000 SF
Year: 2023
A proposal to transform the former Leon Electric Building into a dynamic non-profit cooperative housing community offering diverse living, working, and recreation spaces.
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The irregular existing floor plan is simplified by removing portions of the structure to reveal a minimal geometric compisiton. Existing brick infill is removed and repurposed as abstract geometric volumes scattered around the project, each serving its own purpose.
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Minimally appointed living units give way to generous common areas, various amenity spaces, and wide circulation paths.
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Given the challenges of bringing light to the center of a deep floor plan, the southern-most quadrant of the remaining structure is strategically dissected to reveal a wire frame shell that accommodates a large, light-filled atrium.
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Daniel
William
Garcia
Smith
Daniel
William
Garcia
Smith