Boston Road / Alexander Gorlin Architects
Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the South Bronx.
© Michael Moran
Architects: Alexander Gorlin Architects
Location: United States,1191 Boston Rd, Bronx, NY 10456, USA
Area: 90000.0 ft2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Michael Moran
Participants : Breaking Ground
© Michael Moran
From the architect. Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the South Bronx.
© Michael Moran
The building?s internal layout places equal emphasis on private rooms and communal spaces. Shared areas include multi-purpose rooms to accommodate social services and tenant meetings. In addition, there is a large patio and garden, a roof terrace, computer lab, exercise room, bicycle storage and laundry.
Diagram
The colored metal panels in the façade both animate its surface and serve to recall the history of the site. The building stands in the Morrisania neighborhood, on the site of the farm owned by James Morris who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Morris offered the farm to the new government as the future Capitol of the United St...
© Michael Moran
Architects: Alexander Gorlin Architects
Location: United States,1191 Boston Rd, Bronx, NY 10456, USA
Area: 90000.0 ft2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Michael Moran
Participants : Breaking Ground
© Michael Moran
From the architect. Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the South Bronx.
© Michael Moran
The building?s internal layout places equal emphasis on private rooms and communal spaces. Shared areas include multi-purpose rooms to accommodate social services and tenant meetings. In addition, there is a large patio and garden, a roof terrace, computer lab, exercise room, bicycle storage and laundry.
Diagram
The colored metal panels in the façade both animate its surface and serve to recall the history of the site. The building stands in the Morrisania neighborhood, on the site of the farm owned by James Morris who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Morris offered the farm to the new government as the future Capitol of the United St...
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