CLEAN ROTATIONS
CONNECTING DISTINCT NEIGHBORHOODS
Location
Allston, MA
Completion Date
2012
Size
13,000 SF | 8 Townhouses
Client
YKB Boston
Team
Eric Robinson
Kevin Deabler
Ben Wan
Awards
2019 BSA Design Awards
Description
This 2019 BSA Award winning project consists of four new townhouses sited on the edge between high and low density neighborhoods near Comm Ave. in Allston. The community expressed a strong desire for a smaller-scale building, and for the preservation of the two existing structures on the site. Faced with a constrained site, RODE was able to achieve the developer’s program while incorporating the community’s affinity to mitigate the shifting building scales.
The new townhomes anchor a prominent corner, each level pivoting in response to the shifitng urban grid. The unit stoops step down to Glenville St, where the stucco-inspired facade is broken by cedar slding slots that denot the entries. The project achieves density in a form that infills the street wall, and with an architectural language that transitions between larger-scale brick apartment buildings and the clapboard siding detached residences.
