1. Landscaped Housing
To design a housing complex for the Longwood T
Spaces Client Unit Type Program Arrangements
Medical community in Mission Hill, Boston.
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1st and 2nd Year STUDIO study space
T Medical Students minimal kitchen
ENTRANCE
CONCEPT: to create a domestic space that contrasts late night schedule
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against institutional medical typologies T
3rd and 4th year
Medical Students
LOFT interns
convenience eating
CONTEXT: low-rise row houses, commuter corridor erratic schedule
TEXTURE: variegated patterning in surface, plan, and T
WORK Laboratory
Technicians
1 BEDROOM weekend work
evening free time
space to provide a sense of personalization regular schedule
MATERIAL: brick, glass panels, vegetation T Nurses and Students
with Families
2 BEDROOMS small families
access to retail
regular shift schedule
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UNIT SPACE
Detailed mapping of the Mission Hill area was conducted in T T Principle Investigators
and Residents
3 BEDROOMS families
weekend activities
order to assess the domestic routines of the medical commu-
regular schedule
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nity around the site. The map opposite illustrates the relation- T
Private Physicians
and Specialists
LIVE-WORK couples or small families
division of work and live
ship between public transporation and coffee retail locations;
self-regulated schedule
two important aspects of commuter life. T
SLEEP LIVE Doctorate Candidates AFFORDABLE young families
intense study habits
no schedule
Potential clients for the housing complex were surveyed to Brookline Project Longwood T Train Station
understand which unit types would be optimal for their spe- Village Site Medical
Coffee Shop
cific domestic lifestyles.

2. Existing domestic contextual elements were incorporated into A sense of community is created through the undulating The complex mediates between the urban street and rural
the vertical suburban landscape of the design. verticality of the housing units and roof gardens. park by producing a ‘vertical suburb’ in the urban landscape.