Even if you live in an urban building, you can still have access to the outdoors.
A number of new residential buildings in Boston are creating outdoor spaces — roof decks, garden terraces, courtyards and pools — to connect those who live there with nature.
Copley Wolff Design Group, a Hub landscape architecture firm, is designing outdoor spaces in more than a dozen new buildings, including the Kensington, The Victor, 315 on A, West Square and upcoming work at the Lovejoy Wharf, the Ink Block, One Canal and 101 Seaport.
"Apartment units have gotten smaller and to attract tenants you need to have a lot of common space that's like an extension of their apartments, where they can hang out," said John Copley, principal at Copley Wolff. "Outdoor spaces flowing off these rooms have become an important part of marketing new buildings."
Copley Wolff works with the architects and marketers to create unique concepts for each building,
At the Kensington, Copley and landscape architects Michael D'Angelo and Cortney Kirk created an outdoor lounge and pool area on the sixth floor. The outdoor lounge has a gas fireplace, a built-in flat screen TV and comfortable couches. The deck steps up to a swimming pool with an ipe wood deck, lounge chairs, a trellis for shade and city views.
Fred Goldberg, general manager of the Kensington, said the pool and outdoor lounge, which will open for the season next week, proved popular with tenants last fall.
"It's a huge wow factor to show to prospective tenants," Goldberg said.
At 315 on A, Copley Wolff created an entirely different feel with a 20th floor common roof deck with views over the Seaport District to Boston Harbor. The ipe-decked space has large sliding doors that connect it to a common kitchen/lounge area, and there's two infrared gas grills and dining tables. On the ground level, Copley lined a long entry driveway with upright hornbeam trees and ornamental grasses.
At The Victor apartment complex in North Station, the firm put in larger trees on one rooftop terrace and grass on another.
They've also created an interior courtyard at West Square in South Boston so first-floor units open onto a landscaped area with grass and shrubs.
"Interior courtyards help in leasing what could be seen as less-desirable units without city views," Copley said.
Copley is designing a large pool, plaza and roof decks for the Ink Block now under construction and a park-sized 15,642-square-foot fifth-floor landscaped roof deck at 101 Seaport Square with Boston Harbor views that will be open to the public.
"Roof decks let people get outside quickly, rather than having to walk four or five blocks to a park," said Kirk. "Nature in the city has become a building amenity."
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