Marcel Erminy Studio_606_Spring 02010 Texas A&M University College of Architecture
132 Ipswitch/Boston, Massachusetts
introduction/Propose a mixed use building within the famous Fenway neighborhood in Boston. The program consisted of a 45 room hotel that caters to the visiting baseball team across the street at Fenway Park, as well as a branch of the Boston Ballet School, retail space, and a large green roof serving as a community garden.
context/The Fenway neighborhood is filled with opportunity. Universities surround the area, and two high schools (one for students engaged in performing arts) adjoin the site. Young residents are the majority in the neighborhood, and the Fenway Park baseball stadium provides the area with a unique vibrancy. The roof top garden echoes the public-private gardens found at the Victory Gardens of Back Bay Fens Park. A triangular surface parking lot converts into an open public plaza at the north end of Fenway Park, adjacent to 132 Ipswich.
drawings/The images above are the final presentation boards displaying floorplans, sections, and diagrammatic models.
