Bartlett Yards | 2505-2565 Washington Street | Roxbury

[Longfellow]

What’s confusing me is that you look at the Birds Eye view and less than half the place is covered in buildings? It’s all open space. Historic parts of Boston don’t look like that.

 

[Jeremi]

What’s confusing me is that you look at the Birds Eye view and less than half the place is covered in buildings? It’s all open space. Historic parts of Boston don’t look like that.

That’s because backwards American planning, building codes, and financial incentive structure pretty much require all multifamily building projects to be cheap and crappy popsicle stick buildings in oceans of parking, which is what we have here.

 

[stick n move]

Its the parking. Each building has its own lot and it takes up a lot of space.

 

[Jeremi]

Its the parking. Each building has its own lot and it takes up a lot of space.

Remember how they labeled this as TOD? lol

 

[Jeremi]

Remember how they labeled this as TOD? lol

This project is not very much different from one you might see in a place like Wayland.

 

[kz1000ps]

Yesterday

 

[goody]

I am memorized be seeing the roof structure highlighted by the snow on the First Church in Roxbury.

 

[JumboBuc]

I am memorized be seeing the roof structure highlighted by the snow on the First Church in Roxbury.

That’s the sign of a very poorly insulated roof. A well-insulated (and vented) roof will stay cold when it’s cold outside, without heat from inside the building escaping out to melt the snow outside. What you’re seeing here is snow staying frozen on the thicker joists but melting on the sheathing as heat escapes through it.

You can see this even in single family residential neighborhoods: poorly insulated roof will show their joists after a snowfall while well-insulated roofs will keep consistent snow cover.