GROWING

Every Friday and Saturday through the Spring and Summer, an outdoor farmer’s market sets up at the Haymarket site. We wanted to amplify this unique characteristic by minimizing the building’s footprint to allow for the most public space. We wanted Haymarket to expand onto the site, whether for merchants selling goods or for happy patrons to enjoy their purchases. This meant having a planting strategy with vegetation that offers a different attractive quality throughout every season. Doing so also provides food for insects and birds which encourages biodiversity along the Rose Kennedy Greenway.


The site plan includes a large gathering space oriented towards the North End, to allow people to stop within the side instead of traversing right through it. Permeable pavers allow the hardscape to continue contributing towards our water retention goals. The maintenance entrance is hidden within a dense planting group towards the more congested south end of the site to mitigate sound, noise, and smell from the garbage disposal and sanitation, which allows the open spaces to embrace passersby with ease. The landscape is used as a biofiltration rain garden which absorbs a larger percentage of the building’s water runoff, which does not put as much strain the city’s storm drains.















This project builds on the structural properties of triply periodic minimal surfaces. TPMS are family of geometry found naturally as biological membranes, block copolymers, and within the eye rods of the Tree Shrew. The self-supporting, double-curving, and characteristically repeating geometries have been used today as 3D printing infill pathing, superconductor design, and for architectural imagination. Using 3D printed pre-fabricated modules of the Schoen-IWP variant, the tower pieces get delivered to the site and stacked on top of themselves, as a fast, cheap, and resource-efficient way to construct a new building. Manipulations of the tower’s façade allow the building to express different zones of the tower itself, breaking up the typical monotony of a tower typology.





































0: Public & Market
1-5: Daycare
6-7: Nightclub
8-10: Urban Agriculture
11: Mechanical 12-17: Co-working Space 18-24: Residential
11: Mechanical 12-17: Co-working Space 18-24: Residential








‘Beginning’ and ‘ending’ are human constructed concepts derived from our limited capability to experience just a fragment of time in a single life. The reality is that time and space do not obey arbitrarily imposed logicistics in an attempt to feign order onto systems humans want to control without knowing fully how they operate. What it means to be a human, what it means to be an architecture, and what it means to live in this world will continue to change, and it is the responsiblity of designers to create the most ecologically minded, socially oriented, and accessible public spaces as possible.













