..is a project that narrates the intersection of a historic grain elevator and East Boston’s industrial roots and transit hubs. Core III, which focuses on systems of reciprocity in food production and communal engagement, situates itself in the waterfront of East Boston, in sight of the ICA watershed and El Salvadorian immigrant community.
Our proposal for the site looks at the history of the shoreline to call attention to a crucial link that the area once had to the agricultural hinterland. It reappropriates both the image and the function of the massive, demolished grain elevator that once filled outbound ships with wheat in an act of typological preservation that is at once infrastructural and post-modern.
The industrial grain production silo facilitates a dynamic community center. Envisioned within a field of wheat, the design features a bakery, a milling floor, and a storage silo, blending food production with educational spaces and a market, all functioning as a hub for the neighborhood, allowing a connection that was once materialized in the tracks of the Boston and Albany railroad to be felt again in the working landscape of East Boston.
