Naoto Kumazawa
Submission 0176
This proposed BCA Plaza is a reflection of the ever changing landscape of
Boston, reflection of a history of the “ground” created by the
hands of human and time.
This plaza is composed of five parts. Each part was designed, intended to
hold a different sense of the place vaguely sensibly. People can sense the
changing landscape and elicited time that made a “ground” from
dirt, which was thrown into the sea and filled it.
Main BCA Plaza : Calm Cove – this space of slightly waving ground with
the “light rills”, delineated by water walls and glass walls,
is a small cut-out of the calm cove that once existed before the land was
expanded.
505 Plaza : Artificial Topography - hills and shorelines changed by the human
hands – cut, moved, filled, and dug again.
East Corner Plaza : The Trimountain that disappeared into the cityscape –
floating upside down as a ceiling and appears only on the water as the reflection.
When it rains, water drips from the hole of the bottom of the drooping ceiling
and creates ripples and amplifies the absence of lost landscape.
Claremont & Warren : Backbay Overlook – for the memory of the landscape
once seen from this corner of the town.
Courtyard : Creating a new hill – Newly created topography in the building
block. This new hill is a place for relaxation, as well as serving as the
alternative access to the gallery level of the Tremont Estate Bldg with ADA
ramps.
