Tent City sits in an area where to one side is the dense fabric of residential units and the other side is an area of historic importance to the city of Boston. One would wonder how to meet such diverse sites. The apartments at Tent City is a good example of how to accomplish this through architectural design. Standing at the main entrance is a large curved building, in which to either side the building decreases in height as it steps down the further it goes. Behind this main building is a courtyard space in which the people who live in the apartments are able to use at their leisure. Towards the ends of the building, the height levels off to fit into the fabric of the rest of the residential units. Standing in the neighborhood, one can see the stepping of the building which gets larger as it gets to the side of historic and larger scale buildings.
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