Urban Terraces is an urban affordable housing project that is sited at the Blair Lot of Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts. It proposes a new housing typology for urban communities and collective living. Consisting of a community center, a local farmer’s market, a food court, a community garden, and affordable apartments with greenhouses, this project intends to integrate farming and gardening into residents’ daily lives. The tectonic of this project comes from the series of rooftop terraces that create outdoor farming and gardening spaces for residents to grow fruits and vegetables by themselves as a way not only to create a more self-sufficient community but also to promote a new social activity for residents to interact and communicate with each other.
