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BAC GATEWAYImagine 4 Corners

Fall 2015


Payal | Mariam | Alondra | Daniel

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Context Analysis + Design Guide

I. Imagine 4 Coners...................................................

II. Copley Sq Case Study (first forum).......................

III. Four Corners Diagram Analysis (first forum)........

IV. Community Engagement....................................

V. Lenses of Urban Design.........................................

VI. Recommendations for Next Steps......................

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1. Four Corners Main Street’s recreational space (before and after)2. Four Corners bulletin board- ‘Corner Stone’ 3. Harvard Ave and Washington Street inter-section; 4. Harvard Ave and Bodwin Street Intersection

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Project Overview

Project Goals• Engage the community to help drive a neighbourhood change, by collaborating with merchants and residents to communicate a common vision for a central community area• To help boost the local commerce, by increasing the foot-fall and unifying the iden-tity of the neighbourhood

Project ClientFour Corners Main StreetsBill Perkins, Board Member

Team ProfilesInstructorsClaudia ParaschivArchitect, Urban Designer + Public Space Activist

Michael Chavez LEED AP Architectural DesignerEnterprise Rose Architecture Fellow

StudentsAlondra BatistaMaster in Architecture

Daniel MorelBachelor in Architecture

Payal Mody Master of Landscape Architecture


1.Relation Between Copley Square Plaza and 4 Corners

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Case Study- Copley Square Plaza

WHY COPLEY SQ PLAZA?

The reason for studying Co-pley Square as a precedent prior to analyzing 4 Corners, was to understand the scale, site conditions, location, social demographics and other such parameters that make a pub-lic plaza successful. The study can then be used as a base to analysis our site keeping the parameters and subject of inquiry the same. Also the successful nature of the prec-edent would help us arrive at a program for design interven-tion.


1. Copley Sq Plaza location plan; 2. Circulation pattern; 3. Sound mapping

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INTRODUCTION

Copley Square is a public square in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood bordered by Dartmouth Street, Boylston Street, Clerendon Street and St. James Avenue. Copley Square is one of Boston’s pic-turesque public parks, there-fore a very welcoming desti-nation for international visitor, local residents, and employees of neighboring businesses. It is a short 10 min walk from the Boston Architectural College, and right across from the Cop-ley T- stop.(Ref fig 1)

The precedent was analysis based on parameters like, circulation pattern (Vehic-ular and Pedestrian); sound mapping; social interactions; ephemeral activities; demo-graphics; and weather consid-erations, so as to completely understand the successful functioning of the precedent.

As seen in fig 2 & 3, the sound density is the most at the main intersection with the heaviest vehicular and pedestrian traf-fic. Within the plaza it is fairly quiet, mainly due to the vege-tation at the periphery which serves as sound buffers.


1. Land use plan; 2. Social Interaction map-ping; 3. Privacy mapping; 4. Ephemeral activi-ties; 5. Skateboarding near Trinity Church(sum-mer); 6. Farmer’s market; 7. Skateboarding in the water body(winter)

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As seen in fig 2 & 3, due to the nature of space (private space) created by the tree buffer at periphery, people generally hangout under the tree shade alone, whereas at along the side walk & Trinity Church and water body peo-ple hangout in groups, mainly due to the ephemeral activi-ties that happen there during summer and winter. (ref fig 4,5,6,7)


Focus group: Middle age peo-ple.Farmers Market on Tuesdays and Fridays from 11am to 6pm. Majority of middle age group people are located around this area.

1. User group mapping

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DEMOGRAPHICS

The diagram helps illustrate the array of focus groups in certain locations of the park by sep-arating these age groups by age

Focus group: Older people.They were usually in areas where sitting spaces were available and easy to access

Focus group: Children and young adults.Majority of children and young adults were located near the small water feature and the steps of the Trinity Church

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1. 4 Corners location map2. Circulation pattern; 3. Sound mapping; 4. Social interaction mapping

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4 Corners Diagram Analysis

INTRODUCTION

The 4 Corners site is located in the Drochester neighborhood of Boston. It is 40- 60 min travel using public transport. The site is mainly the intersection of Washington st , Harvard ave and Bodwin st.

Fig 2 & 3 tells us that the sound density is highest (mainly the vehicular sound) right at the intersection, which also has an open recreational space abut-ting it (ref fig 2 pg16)


1. Land use plan; 2. Social interaction map-ping; 3. Wind rose diagram; 4. Vehicular and pedestrian circulation pattern on Washington street

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People use the corners of the intersection to hangout and meet. It was seen that they come alone with the objec-tive of being consumers of the local commerce at the intersection and meet people alike making the intersection a gathering space (ref fig 2)

Wind nalysis for the month of September was done. Here we can see the distribution of wind and it’s respective direction for the month of September. Wind navigated, on average, East and South West with con-siderable winds traveling north. Considering the decline in temperature is valid to consid-er that this pattern will remain throughout winter (ref fig 3)


1. Demographic analysis

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POPULATION GROWTH

We decided to view the popu-lation growth along with age demographics at a macro scale. This allowed us to notice the drastic population growth over time. Also, the noticeable population growth is particur-laly seen in the age range of young adults 18 and under. This means that the area of Dorchester is highly populated by younger people.


1. Cover Page, Site in Question, The four Cor-ner’s Intersection.

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Four Corners Diagram Analysis

Introduction:In the first forum we gather the information we were able the generate from both the much denser area, Copley Square and the more relaxed, 4 Cor-ners intersection. The intent was to reflect and develop a consist idea of what makes Copley Square a thriving city node, and what principles can be gather from there and applied to the Four Corner’s intersection. This is was we’ve learned...

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Ages

1. Boston Population Ages 18-64yrs; 2. Boston Population Ages 64+; 3. Changes in population 1990-2000 ; 4. Changes in population 2000-2015

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We’ve gather stats showcas-ing the population changes in Boston chronologically. This is an essential analysis represents the districts on Boston that have seen essential growth in population in the past de-cades. Information like such can dictate patterns of move-ments and points of signifi-cance in different districts.

Furthermore, We’ve gather information of citizen’s age range and it’s growing pat-terns in the last decades. This is important to understand the people who out ultimate de-sign will be catering to as well as the potential to adjust to the varies range of change the city is so familiar to.

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Analysis for the month of Sep-temberHere we can see the distribu-tion of wind and it’s respective direction for the month of September. Wind navigated, on average, East and South West with considerable winds traveling north. Considering the decline in temperature is valid to consider that this pattern will remain throughout winter.

Copley Wind Rose

1. Windrose diagram for both Copley Square and Four Corners

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Analysis for the month of Sep-temberHere we can see the distribu-tion of wind and it’s respective direction for the month of September. Wind navigated, on average, East and South West with considerable winds traveling north. Considering the decline in temperature is valid to consider that this pattern will remain throughout winter.

Copley Wind Rose Natural elements can have a valuable say on the design decisions of a project. For example, the incorporation of Louver systems to areas more prone to sun light, or Low E windows on colder climates. That being said, we were able to gather wind analysis for both location that can poten-tially influence design decisions moving forward.


Parallels and Differences

1.Parallels and differences of both sites; 2. Landscape of Copley Square; 3. Landscape of Four Corners;

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Will considering both locations, will looked at strengths and weaknesses from both loca-tions. As well as similarity (Traf-fic congestion, Noisy intersec-tions, diversity, etc), and the way each location addresses them.

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Here we see the geographical distance between both sites (The BAC taking the place of Copley Square). A simple dia-gram showcasing the not-so-distant location and time from one another. It also rises ques-tion about the drastic changes seen in the parallels and dif-ferences diagram regarding social interaction, night life, population, etc.

Diagram 1,2, and 3 will focus more on the site in questioning, Four Corners, and the current problems it’s experiencing. Same problems that were present at Copley Square and were addressed to work as efficiently as possible. Locally now, we have a precedent to reference from.

Honing in on the Four Corners Intersection

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1.Time & Distance in between both sites ; 2. Diagram showing both traffic patterns at Four Corners; 3. Sound intensity diagram generated by construction, vehicles, pedestrian, etc; 4. Pedestrian footpath and traffic.

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Understanding The Site

With the new completion of the transit infrastructure, ideas to improve and investments on the Main St district of Four Corners began swarming in

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Community Workshop under guidance of WAG, comprised of Stakeh. Buss. Owner, Resident Etc

Goals

Community Vision comprised of minimizing displacement, strengthen cultural activity, provide affordable housing

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Important factors to consider: Prosperity, Housing, Quality of Life, Getting Around

Actions

To Implement positive action, multiply solution need to take place. Redev. Disposable Public Prop. Streets-cape Investments, Improve Intersec. Investment in Existing Building (Cont).

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To start we’ll outreach the community and built trust. Engage Stakeh. ID problems and goals

Engage Iterative sketch process, cultivate discussion and craft a solution

Determine final design, hear remaining thoughts and concerns. Plan should get approve but If not, restart from the comm. Engage process and conclude.

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Understanding The Site

With the new completion of the transit infrastructure, ideas to improve and investments on the Main St district of Four Corners began swarming in

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Community Workshop under guidance of WAG, comprised of Stakeh. Buss. Owner, Resident Etc

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Community Vision comprised of minimizing displacement, strengthen cultural activity, provide affordable housing

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Important factors to consider: Prosperity, Housing, Quality of Life, Getting Around

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To Implement positive action, multiply solution need to take place. Redev. Disposable Public Prop. Streets-cape Investments, Improve Intersec. Investment in Existing Building (Cont).

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To start we’ll outreach the community and built trust. Engage Stakeh. ID problems and goals

Engage Iterative sketch process, cultivate discussion and craft a solution

Determine final design, hear remaining thoughts and concerns. Plan should get approve but If not, restart from the comm. Engage process and conclude.

Here we see our process of action going forward. After conducting experiments and analysis from varies location, we can finally focus on an spe-cific location and apply the newly learned principals.


“The buildings should create an image where people walking or driving by-can see the essence of the Four Corners community.”

1. Cross walk are really dangerous when there is heavy traffic; 2. Children use the cross walk at rough hours, which means that this cross walk need to improve safety for these children; 3-4 Traffic is really intense on all four streets.

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Alondra Batista:

When I visited the site for first time, I was really impressed by the amount of people that were interacting with the place. The location of the site is a really strong location for vehicular circulation, which makes me assumed that not many people will be crossing the streets. I came to the site by bus and as soon as I walked out of the bus I realized that it is a really tricky place to cross the street, vehicles are driv-ing back and forward really often, which put people in a really difficult spot to cross the street. This is a really import-ant problem in the site and it is something that need to be addressed in order to have not only successful vehicular circu-lation, but pedestrian too. Another important quality that I noticed in the site is the diver-sity of users. These users were not only categorized by their racial identity, but also by their age. The area around the site have a really rich variation of users. There is a big amount of children between 8-12 years

old that circulate around the site, which makes me think that because many children occu-pied the place, they must be taken into consideration when designing in the site.In term othe urban fabric of the site, all the building in the site have their own style. They don’t have any visual con-nection. By visual connection I refer to the fact that these buildings have different ma-terials and construction style. These buildings differ not only in their physical qualities, but their also have very differ-ent programmatic qualities. There are restaurants, grocery stores, schools, residential units, schools and churches in the site. All of these different pro-grams makes the place a very unique community, but also it makes it a really difficult spot to be unified or to be seen as a whole. The lock of connection between all of these programs is something that really needs to be taken into account, but it must be done in a really smart way that preserve the uniqueness of the place. I think the site counts with all

the qualities to be a really vibrant and engaging commu-nity, but there is the necessary of rethinking the way these places tell the story of this community. In other words all of the buildings should create an image where people walk-ing or driving bycan see the essence of the Four Corners community.

Site Personal Impressions


“I think is our job as designer to elevate the community by spreading aware-ness to dismissed topics, and engage those citizen to stride for change”-Daniel Morel

1.Existing landscape on site; 2. Bourbon st. New Orlean, https://mingpresents.wordpress.com 3-4. Performing stage on site, mainly use in the summer.

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Daniel Morel:“At first glance, the Dorchester community seems to be made up of the working class. With the majority of people, unlike most of Boston, lived in family households. I noticed traces on student apartments, but not by majority. Also the age range in Dorchester was far more flexi-ble than of upper Boston were the average caps out at 31 yrs old. Focusing more on the Four Corner intersection, my first im-pression of the site was a pretty pleasant one. I noticed that the small piece of land was actually thought thru, in terms of design. Vegetation was placed around the site perimeter, along with wooden boxes holding it in place. Art work was scattered around the site. At the entrance off of Wash-ington St, right on the intersec-tion in Bowdoin and Washing-ton, and even along the west wall. My favorite element in the site was the performance stage—later I learned that the space was used for multiply purposes. The stage was very

simple, just easily noticeable and distinct. Wooden, large-ish more or less, white, and orient-ed toward the traffic. Through-out my short stay in Boston, I’ve seen plenty of musicians on performers play in the streets and subways, and even their own made up stages, but for some reason this one made things like New Orleans-ish. The atmosphere, the type of people the community brings in makes you wonder if you’re on Bourbon St. However, the site, location can really use some help. Help along the lines on maintenance, safety more or less, traffic control, and sound. The incredible amount of sound generated by the intersection that would render the music stage mean-ingless. Safety I think can use some help, despite the fact that I haven’t been on around the community for longer than a class period, I did no-tice boarded windows on homes coming down Bowdoin St. People, especially tourist would benefit the community if an open-handed approach was applied. Along the lines

on economically erecting the community, allowing great-er love and ownership to the community. Lastly, and of most importance, maintaining the community clean. Those are the little factors that tense to influence an individual sub-consciously. One may feel detach from their community if no care is applied to it. I think is our job as designer to elevate the community by spreading awareness to dismissed topics, and engage those citizen to stride for change. We should be self-aware of the fact that most people— by a large margin if I may add, do not look through the same lenses as we do as designers (daily). I believe that if a movement to increase the community’s awareness, mere cognizant awareness of their surround-ings, would help them, help themselves improve their com-munity and way of like. Will at the same time, providing a better future for generations to come.”


“The place definitely needed a boost in the commerce industry for it to thrive as a major node”-Payal Mody

1.The site has the potential of being a park among all of the commercial spaces around; 2. The infrascture in the site that give the site a bit of privacy from the street; 3-4 The devel-opment of new projects around the site might impact the use of this open lot by being seem as a possible resting space for occupants of the old and new buildings around.

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Payal Mody:

My colleague and I took the red line to Fields Corner and walked to four corner/Geneva via the commuter rail station. The neighborhoods passed on the way from the Fields Corner station changed from commercial to residential to semi-commercial. It was just after lunch time on a Friday afternoon, and the intersection of Four Corners looked desert-ed. There were few commer-cial places at the intersection, mostly an eatery at the end of each street and a beautiful, semi-shaded open space and yet the place looked desert-ed when actually it’s the time when schools are winding up for the week and lunch break is just about to start/or is over. The “park” (community open space), where we were briefed about the project by Bill Perkins, was welcom-ing and seemed like a green oasis. However the lack of use of this space was puzzling. As our meeting progressed and we discussed the needs of the neighborhood, they be-

came more evident. The place definitely needed a boost in the commerce industry for it to thrive as a major node, (commercial, transit etc). The site had a lot of potential and existing infrastructure to support this well-engineered boast. With new mixed-use constructions coming up in the neighboring plots and existing commerce, churches, non-profit organizations like the deli table, in my opinion all the site needs is human foot-fall. The site lacked, in my opinion, some general grocery stores, pharmacies, and some de-partmental stores which might serve as competitions to the local business but I think might increase the human footfall and supplement the local commerce”


“Understanding what people like can inform on how they will react to any future project” -Alondra Batista

1.Azia Carle talking about the essence of 4 Coners 2. 4 Corners group & MIT Alumni on site 3. Local artist Aziza on a T-stop Meal 4. publlic artwork done by the community on The Dorchester Art Collaborative.

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Community Engagement

Inputs outputs:

In the process of understand-ing the community and what things they really care about, The Four Corners Group at-tended to multiple community engagement events held by the Dorchester Art Collabora-tive. These events were more workshop focused than public events. They were communi-ty engagement workshops in which the group learned on how to engage with people in order to understand the way of seeing things. The benefit of doing these workshops was to get a better sense of what the Four Corners community is interested in. By knowing what people like or dislike designers can predict what impact their work will have in any specific community. During these Wor-shops Two local artist talked about the roots of the commu-nity and how they have been doing T-stop meals as a way of getting people involve in the community. These meals abstract people to share their concerns and thinking about things that are taking place in the community.

Community Engagement Workshops


“Each of the businesses in Four corners has its own identity, you can walk an whole block and you’ll see a different fabric for every single business, there is a lock of unification”- Gary Webster

1.Four Corners is characterize by all these small local businesses.

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Site Elevations

Seeing & Re-designing

The site elevations were a key element in the exploration of Urban Design in the site. These elevations help to understand important qualities of existing buildings in the site. They give a better understanding of building setbacks and heights. In addition they are an im-portant designing tool for any future renovation on existing building because they can be used to trace over and start adding and relocating existing elements of the site. Some of these element that are notice-able in these elevations are building materials, signage, windows & floor heights.


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Lenses of Urban Design

Why 3?:A new project involves a lot of design thinking and program-ing, but it also requires to fulfill city/ building regulations, & community approval as well. In order to have a clear idea of every single step to a success-ful project, The Four Corners group had a deep exploration on each of these lenses that make up a clear image of what a strong thoughtful proj-ect is. These lenses are sub-divide into three categories, The Merchants, Developers, & Architects. We chose these three lens-es because they are the key elements for a future project in this community. The mer-chants are representing the voice of the community, the developers working in the area have a clear understanding of what can be build and what program can be place on that community. Finally we chose the architects working in the area as well, because they have a clear understanding of building regulations. Also they can be a strong reference to identify the design struggle that we as designers working on that community can face on the future.

Seeing Through 3 Different Eyes

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“New development are emerging, but if the old still the same the place won’t show any new image of the neighborhood, it would continue being the same with an addition.” -Merchants of Four Corners

1. four Corners’ Merchants commenting about their concerns and spectations for the neighborhood; 2. Merchants used the model to express their ambition about their business 3. Supporting image; 4. Supporting image

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hood, these merchants started to reimagine what they want to see in the neighborhood a couple years from now. They want to re-design their build-ings in a way that they also ad-just to the change that is hap-pening in the neighborhood. Some of these merchants want to build up on their buildings, because as they assume “With the new buildings being taller, their buildings won’t be notice-able in the area”

Re-imagining a new Four Corners:

Meeting with the Merchants on four corners was a really informative experience. These merchants are owners of the properties in which their build-ings are located. This owner-ship change the way in which they look at the neighborhood. When people own a property in a neighborhood they care a lot more for the neighbor-hood, because they are a permanent part of the neigh-borhood, while merchants renting can easily move from one location to another. The merchants in Four Corners care a lot for the community, they really want to see an improve-ment in the way people look at Four Corners. They want to unify the area in a way that it looks like an image created by the same artist. In addition they want to maintain the cultural diversity of the neigh-borhood, which is one of the qualities that makes Four Cor-ners a strong community. With the new developments that are emerging in the neighbor-

Meeting with Merchants


“As the project was moving along, we tried to mantain every one happy about the project, specially a neighboring resident, who was accomodated with parking space on our parking lot.”

-Jonathan Evans, Architect at Utlile

1.Main image label here; 2. Supporting image; 3. Supporting image; 4. Supporting image

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Elevation Matter:

Utile is developing Two Mix-used buildings on Washington Street. These buildings are intended two provide affordable housing for the community as well as retail spaces. When designing these two buildings, Utile took into consideration the façade and height of the existing buildings in the community. This qualities have been really noticeable by the merchants and as the dicussion went with them, they want to implement these technics in their buildings too.

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“There was a really strong effort on having sidewalks and store fronts that inter-act with the street in a really potential way” -Alberto Cardenas, Principal at DHK Architects

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Alondra Batista:

Dhk specialize in affordable housing projects, most of their projects are affordable units. For the new development that they are bringing to Four Corner, they are em-phasizing a lot in the residential units, while they are creating a “box” for the retail spaces, so they are de-sign after their uses are assigned by the developer.DHk gave the group really important informa-tion about set backs consid-erations, building height limits, and how they play with the topographic in order to achive a sucessful project. Another important step that DHK took for their project was the well thought way of inter-grating the side walk to the building in order to have a bet-ter circulation in the building in relation to the street.

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“The community work with us to identify what they wanted and what they didn’t, they worked with us well enough to know what do they have enough of” Aspasia Xypolia, VietAid Developer

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Alondra Batista:

After getting in touch with the community and learning about what the community really care about, the group met with the developer of the new mix-used buildings that are emerging in the communi-ty. The meeting with this de-velopers gave us a clear vision about what the developer appreciate about the commu-nity or what are the motives of developing the area. This vi-sions that the developer have about the community helps to understand what is valuable in the community, what should really be considered when de-signing in the community. The developers of these two new buildings are special-ized in affordable housing, this is a really important quality in achieving the visionof the community of creating spaces that keep people in the community instead of dis-placing them by creating new espensive housing.

viet-aid & Codman Square Developers


1.Model representatioal of some features to be change.

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Recommendations for Next Steps

Introduction:Here is our recommendation of what is to be explores and capitalize on from an design perspective. There are numer-ous problem to the Four Cor-ner’s site that need attention. We’ve selected a few that need immediate addressing for a quick results.

What do we need to look into?


1.Location Diagram showing mer-chants and adjacent buildings; 2. First Problem (5pm Traffic);

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Owner of the Parcel we’re privileged to use, and the commercial building in that block(2). Carlton, also expresses his consents over the lack of parking in the area. He believe it to be the cost of declining commer-cial mar-ket in the 4 corners area. The lack of access to the area would render the node as an unfavor-able destination to conduct business. He also proposes the addition of parking in the new building across from his business. It should also be noted that Garry might of have a hand into his decision.

Owner of(3) the 4 corners church, Paul Routh, believes that allevi -at-ing the parking dilemma would only provide from outside commuter and exposure to new members could be increased. He believes that a major prob-lem to the declining of his church could be traced back to the distance and lack a parking his members would have to encounter.

Owner of (1)Gary Webster, discontent with that It’ll have on his family busi-ness. He’s proposing that the state grant him customer parking withing the new proposed building the new building property line so that he can utilize that space as a garbage dis-posal and his private parking space.

This diagram represents the scares parking condition at the four corners intersection. The diagram represents in blue the allowable street parking, while the orange displays bus stops (no park-zone).

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Here we see a summarized version of the demands of our merchants. They repressed frustration with the city, lack of commute, parking area, loss of authenticity.

Also, the congestion of traffic at such a small intersection renders the area as unsafe. We believe its important to look at design alterations that would alleviate congestion, reduce vehicle speed, and would alternately allow driv-ers to leave their vehicles and interact with the intersection.

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Creating a comprehensive market location is something that would benefit this intersec-tion greatly. Combining ideas gather from Copley Square, we can start looking at ways to connect to market places at the Four Corners’ intersection in a way were it displays that the business are working as one and are united.

To achieve such task we rec-ommend design solutions stemming from similar facade pattern along adjacent store-fronts, to the incorporation of awnings of the same structure and color.

Storefronts Connections


Locating a space withing acceptable walking distance form the Four Corner intersec-tion to establish a bank is also an important design solution. The closest bank to Four Cor-ners is a 10-15 minute walk and it is not a corporate/ popular bank. To be able to instigate new customers to spend in the Four Corner market it is nec-essary to make their money easily accessible.

1.Map on Four Corners showing the nearest access to a bank.

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