This multigenerational housing proposal reimagines Boston’s Cross Street Parking Lot through a layered system of columns and screens that respond to both domestic and urban scales. Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s The Gorgeous Nothings, the project treats structural elements as compositional tools: local columns act as inhabitable thresholds within units, enabling adaptable circulation and intergenerational living, while a “super” column organizes site-wide movement and spatial hierarchy. A gradient of screens—shifting in material, density, and operability—mediates between the building and city, forming a soft, porous edge that blurs the boundary between housing and city.