boston visions urban design competitionsponsored by boston society of architects This national urban planning and design competition was created to generate visions of Boston’s future, in particular around an industrial waterfront that was once saltwater marshland. A primary design goal was to aid the development of the city’s fledgling mass transit system. Our proposal focused on how to get the transit system off the ground while stimulating a fourth dimension in commercial development. We created “aerial neighborhoods” as a central part of our Urban Necklace design, inspired by and incorporating the city’s Emerald Necklace park system designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. The proposal would reclaim the inner-city highway scar, creating an intense development corridor and rebuilding existing neighborhoods on a historical, human scale while constructing new vertical neighborhoods cohesive with the scale of the city as a whole. This would be accomplished by synthesizing residential, commercial, office and public spaces, forming communities around an independent transport loop and threading these “aerial neighborhoods” into an Urban Necklace. |
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