Pier 5 / Navy Blue

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Architect: Utile, Inc.

Landscape Architect: Landworks Studio

Role: Project Manager

Winner of the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards 2021: Unbuilt Master Plan

As Project Manager, attended stakeholder meetings, collaborated with the landscape architect to finalize the concepts for the public realm, presented at community meetings and presented to the BPDA.

This project is a response to a Boston Planning and Development Agency RFP for the redevelopment of the defunct Pier 5. Navy Blue is a redevelopment proposal that aims to transform Charlestown Navy Yard’s Pier 5 into a resilient community of live-aboard vessels, fabricated and assembled at the East Boston Shipyard. With the landward-side Charlestown Navy Yard already identified as a high-risk location, vulnerable to coastal flooding and storm surges, Navy Blue presented the city and region with an innovative and exciting blueprint for how to develop resilient coastal communities at the water’s edge.

The team envisioned as many as six basic prototypes, each of two levels with a third-level head house providing access to a roof terrace in a variety of configurations. The project also included landscape improvements to the Boston Harborwalk as well as public access to floating parks and a water taxi at the site.