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架构师提供的文本描述。这座新的九单元住宅建筑在东波士顿的滨水区占据了一个小而独特的位置。该设计位于杰弗里斯点住宅区和一个活跃的造船厂、公共艺术画廊和咖啡馆之间，利用工业材料，在消解建筑与城市边界的同时，对语境进行当代解读。规划方面的限制，包括邻居施加的高度限制、城市对停车的要求，以及开发商希望为每个单元提供水景的愿望，都为战略性改造标准住宅类型提供了机会。其结果是管状堆叠单元机会化地连锁，以实现单元空间内的分段和比例移位。大楼正面的居住、就餐和烹饪区域都是压缩和水平的，通过一系列的分层空间，人们可以看到水的框架和波士顿的天际线。建筑物后面的睡眠空间是紧凑的，高的部分，集中眼睛向上。

Text description provided by the architects. This new nine-unit residential building occupies a small but unique site on the waterfront in East Boston. Located between the residential neighborhood of Jeffries Point and an active shipyard, public art gallery and cafe, the design utilizes industrial materials to effect a contemporary interpretation of context while dissolving the boundary between building and city. Planning limitations, including height restrictions imposed by neighbors, parking requirements from the city, and the developer’s desire to provide water views for every unit, presented an opportunity to strategically rework standard residential typologies. The result is tube-like stacked units opportunistically interlocked to effect sectional and proportional shifts within the space of the unit. Living, dining, and cooking areas on the front of the building are compressed and horizontal, leading the eye through a series of layered spaces toward framed views of the water and the Boston skyline beyond. Sleeping spaces in the rear of the building are compact in plan and tall in section, focusing the eye upward.

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在它的立面上，这座建筑将波纹钢和电缆网组成的工业材料调色板与温暖的红色雪松墙板混合起来，让人联想到它的三层邻居。建筑师们与一支技术精湛的金属工人团队密切合作，为外墙框架和铁丝网的附件细节开发了一种制造方法。最终将工厂的劳动力和手工制造结合在一起。每个丝网面板都是由工厂的网格制造商部分制造的，然后精心手工编织到电缆中，确定了现场每个面的边缘。

On its façade, the building mixes an industrial material palette of corrugated steel and cable mesh with warm red cedar siding reminiscent of its triple-decker neighbors.  The architects worked closely with a highly skilled team of metal workers to develop a fabrication method for the façade frame and attachment detail for the wire mesh, ultimately combining factory labor and the handmade.  Each wire-mesh panel was partially fabricated by the mesh manufacturer in the factory and then painstakingly handwoven into the cables defining the edge of each facet on site. 

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建筑外墙独特的几何形状、建筑物离地面的高度以及大厅的透明度，使建筑物的领土与周围的邻里之间进行了一次构造运动。网状立面的多孔边界将单元的私人空间推入街道的公共空间，而停车位和大厅则成为人行道的延伸。因此，立面和大堂成为了建筑居民和社区之间的一种便利设施：攀岩植物既是绿色的，又是一种以混凝土为主的街景，在夏季为居民提供了阴凉处，而大堂则充当了一个展示柜，展示了一场从内部和街道都能看到的旋转艺术展览。(鼓掌)

The unique geometry of the façade, elevation of the building off the ground, and transparency of the lobby perform a tectonic negotiation between the territory of the building and the surrounding neighborhood. The porous boundary of the mesh façade pushes the private space of the unit into the public space of the street, while the parking void and lobby become an extension of the sidewalk. The façade and lobby thus becomes an amenity shared between the building’s residents and the neighborhood: climbing plants both green a predominantly concrete streetscape and provides shade for the residents in the summer, while the lobby acts as a display case for a rotating art exhibition visible from within as well as the street.                               

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Colleen@mergearchitects com Merge Architects Inc

Location United States, East Boston, Boston, MA, USA

Category Residential

Architect in Charge Elizabeth Whittaker

Design Team Allison Austin, Deb Katz, Parker Lee, Jamie Pelletier

Area 12110.0 ft2

Project Year 2015

Photographs John Horner Photography