Emerge Architects & Associates 上滕聯合建築師事務所

Fort Hill Houses

Fort Hill Houses

Fort Hill Houses

Merge Architects

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Boston, MA, United States

TYPE
Residential › Multi Unit Housing

This project includes 7 townhouse condo units in the Fort Hill area of Roxbury, Boston. This project was designed as an E+ development – an architecture that will generate more energy for the grid than it consumes.

Fort Hill Houses
Fort Hill Houses
Fort Hill Houses

We employed both passive and active solar strategies to achieve this goal as well as robust building envelope construction practices.

We worked very closely with the neighborhood to satisfy their desire for a series of bay windows on the façade reminiscent of the typical rowhouses in this area.

The result incorporates a checkerboard color palette and pattern of orthogonal bay “boxes” that provide an exterior bench seat next to each front stoop.

Fort Hill Houses
Fort Hill Houses
Fort Hill Houses

This field of contrasting color blocks, social benches, stoops and large extruded frames add a layer of social space onto this intimate sidewalk and corner of the city.

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