The lobby of the apartment tower (directly below) fills more uses than the typical apartment lobby. In addition to tenants, it receives children and parents going to the daycare center, office visitors, and resident pedestrians taking a shortcut to Yarmouth Place.

Moreover, the balconies overhanging the space serve as routes to the laundry and as social spaces with tables and chairs. The lower floors of the houses on Columbus Avenue get dropped living rooms because of changes in ground level (two photos at bottom).

SECOND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

**Tent City**
Boston

**Owners:**
Tent City Corporation
(housing); Urban Investment
.Development Corporation
(garage)

**Architect:**
Goody, Clancy & Associates,
Inc.—John M. Clancy,
principal-in-charge; Paul H.
Dudek, senior associate;
Geoffrey Wooding, William H.
Masterson, Donna L. Harris,
project team

**Engineers:**
Zaldastani Associates, Inc.

(structural); C. A. Crowley
Engineering, Inc. (mechanical);
Verne G. Orman Associates,
Inc. (electrical); Haley &
Aldrich (geotechnical)

**Consultants:**
The Halvorson Co., Inc.
(landscape); Falk Associates
(specifications and cost);
Cavanaugh-Tocci Associates
(acoustical); Greater Boston
Community Development, Inc.
(development consultant to the
owner)

**General contractor:**
Turner Construction Company

Tent City's landscaped courtyards afford benches for languid adults and play space for energetic children. The tower has a markedly important entrance on Dartmouth Street, a major thoroughfare, and the forecourt offers access to the parking

garage on one side and to a large store on the other. The curved wing houses a daycare center with adjacent playground, as well as a community meeting room and management offices. While the tower contains conventional single-level flats, the town houses contain family-sized duplexes. The houses face either city streets or semiprivate Yarmouth Place; each has both a front and a back door (plans opposite), the doors serving four units in each house. Along one side of Tent City, the Southeast Corridor threads its way between the South End and the Back Bay to Fenway three-quarters of a mile away.