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The Terrace Street Corridor in Roxbury, a historically majority African American community, showcases the intersection of community preservation and sustainable design. This tour will visit 103 Terrace Street, an adaptively reused ex-brewery now housing architecture offices, including Stull & Lee, Boston's first Black-owned firm, and West Work.
You'll also explore Boston Building Resources' Reuse Center, which highlights material reuse for design projects and community-driven strategies to preserve Roxbury's cultural heritage while fostering creativity, affordability, and innovation. Join us to gain insights into neighborhood preservation, adaptive reuse, and material reuse—and delivering environmentally responsible projects with rich narrative and community impact.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how to identify opportunities for material reuse in a project, factoring in the need to meet regulatory requirements for occupant health and safety.
- Learn about applicable codes on adaptive reuse and how to evaluate historical preservation, structural, and safety impacts to successfully design an adaptive reuse project.
- Hear from stakeholders about the transformation of the adjoining neighborhood and their efforts to support change while maintaining the neighborhood's character and legacy.
- Learn from the student-led Gateway Office about how to apply an innovative master planning approach to strategically address neighborhood transformation and material reuse.