Fall 2021
Place of Assembly
Place of Assembly is a public art project in the heart of Boston’s Chinatown that invites the community to reflect on the neighborhood’s architectural and material history. Using reclaimed bricks sourced from the city, the installation recalls the historic row houses that once defined Chinatown’s residential fabric and the vibrant sidewalk culture that these buildings supported. The installation re-imagines the rowhouse stoop as a playful and interactive landscape, with individual elements that can be rotated and reconfigured to allow for different seating and programmatic arrangements. The project aims to provide an adaptable gathering space for the Chinatown community, and a collective monument to the cycles of building and unbuilding that have shaped the neighborhood. With Ang Li, I developed construction details and drawings, carried out basic structural analysis, and helped coordinate masonry work.
