Woven Wall Roof

• location:
  Boston, MA
• Date:
  Completed 2007
• client:
  Joey Arcari
• collaborators:
  Structural Engineer: Evan Hankin
  General Contractor: Danny DeSilva, Mick Sammon
  Photographer: Melissa Rivard
• project_team:
  Partner-In-Charge: Elizabeth Whittaker
  Design Team: Paul Voulgaris, Andrew Richardson, Silvia Illia
• description:
  A woven wall wood screen wraps this deck on the roof of an industrial loft building in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. Exploiting the innate flexibility of wood, the design for the screen bends multiple widths of ipe boards between wood verticals to create variable openings. The variably opaque screen conceals mechanical equipment and opens to views with a playful rhythm that creates both enclosed and more open spaces with a play between privacy and translucency.
  
  The ipe-wood deck, twelve stories in the air, acts as a private spa for its owners, and features an outdoor shower, a recessed soaking tub, and a zinc-clad sauna with a slot window looking out to the city’s waterfront and open sky beyond. One edge of the deck is bounded by a frameless glass guardrail and a three-sided built-in eating nook is adjacent to a custom concrete kitchen counter with built-in gas grill.