Courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects
The architects strove to design a boathouse that would conserve …
When the only public-access rowing club on Boston’s Charles River required a new facility, Anmahian Winton Architects saw a chance to modernize the vocabulary of local rowing structures while taking inspiration from antecedents such as covered bridges and tobacco barns.
The team developed three types of functional cladding for the project. At the main boathouse, an assembly of composite panels with operable vents allows for natural ventilation. Patterned louvers on the south face mask mechanical vents, offer privacy for locker rooms, and induce natural cooling. At the adjacent sculling pavilion, glass shingles—held in custom extruded and fabricated aluminum clips—protect, ventilate, and display the smaller boats.
“It’s very rustic; it’s a hard environment, and they somehow softened it,” commented juror Cristobal Correa.
Project Credits
Architect
Anmahian Winton Architects, Cambridge, Mass.: Alex Anmahian, Nick Winton, Todd Thiel, Sydney Schremser, Joel Lamere, Makoto Abe, Julia Davis, Aaron Stavert, John Paul Dunn, Garth Goldstein, Andrew Plumb, Mazen Sakr, Munira Fleyfel, Aaron Bruckerhoff
Client
Community Rowing Inc.
Civil Engineer/ Landscape
Stantec
Waterfront Structural Engineer
Childs Engineering Corp.
Structural Engineer
Richmond So Engineers
M/E/P and Fire Protection Engineer
R.W. Sullivan Engineering
Geothermal System
Harriman
Sustainable Systems Analyst
Green Roundtable
Cladding Systems Fabricators
Extech Exterior Technologies
Lighting Design
Lam Partners
Envelope Consultants
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates; Richard Keleher Architect
Contractor
Consigli Construction Co.
Photographers
Mike Champion, Jane Messinger, Peter Vanderwarker
