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Tracey Miller •
Immersion
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During a three day visit to Boston we were asked to document objects, landscapes,
and/or infrastructure within the city that would help develop our initial
proposal for the fens. Olmsted's plan for the Emerald Necklace was in part
motivated to 'gentrify' the working class with a park that would raise their
ambitions. With a particular interest in the working class that motivated
Olmsted's plan, a classmate and I wondered away from the park in search
for remnants of the industrial history. We found an old brewery, a housing
project in ruin, and Mission Hill where many industrial workers lived during
the mid to late 1800's. Later in the day we went to the Charles River and
found the Charles River gatehouse and this most remarkable underpass which
separates the Fens from the river. These photographs as well as photographs
of existing conditions on site are serving to develop a material palette
that will hopefully begin to inform the fabric of the design and extract
the complex, interwoven and diverse character of the area and the site.
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