After Hours

A finalist competition entry for the Rotch Travelling Scholarship, where architectural salvage is refurbished, stored and sold at an open-air repair shop, studied in 2025

After Hours is an ephemeral repair shop in downtown Boston that collects, mends and sells architectural salvage otherwise headed for landfill. The proposal reacts to the rise in online retail and the waste generated from tenants moving in and out by encouraging reuse. Re-imagining a neighborhood garage sale at a larger urban scale, the project borrows from the infrastructure of an existing parking garage. Donated items, including furniture, lighting, fixtures, windows, doors and leftover materials, are dropped off at the upper level of the garage. Once the items are refurbished, they are brought down and stored along the perimeter of the building in permeable containers. After hours, the facade of the garage transforms into levitating window displays, illuminating the silhouette of architectural salvage.

See related work Proscenium.

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Image Credit: Abigail Chang

Recognition: Awarded Competition Finalist