The Boathouse is located in a quiet neighborhood in uptown Manhattan, which connects to Inwood Hill Park. It designed for the Columbia University racing boat team. As we learned from the coach, the teams only use this building for training from June to December. The building always stays empty for the rest of the time. 

To take full advantage of the building, an additional set of programs for the public rowing club is designed, which open to this neighborhood and community. However, due to the climate condition, this building would still remain unused in winter. Therefore landscape is incorporated into the building design functions as a substitute program, which would make the project into the half boathouse and half public landscape. The landscape goes along with the circulation which connected the top of the roof to the waterfront.  It is an additional green space for the local community as well as a compensation program for the boathouse in the unusable season.