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light snorkel
view from southeast
as middle townhouses typically have exposures on only 2 sides, a light and air snorkel is utilized to bring sunlight into more 'buried' spaces and promote stack ventilation
projection wall
living spaces are conceived as continuous and open

Valentine Houses
Cambridge, MA | 2003
[BSA/AIA NY Housing Design Award 2004, Dwell Magazine feature Oct 2004, BSA Honor Award Citation 2003]

The 3 new townhouses transform Cambridgeport's woodframe type, dynamically addressing boundaries between inside and outside, private and community. A critique of the inward looking 'winterized box,' the project incorporates double height interior/exterior spaces, cantilevered garden-balconies, and occupiable shared roof-planes -- all of which become an architectural language for further urban developments.

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