Program-and-Site

Boston Architectural College - 320 Newbury Street - Boston MA 02115 - USA

Jul 31, 2008

BAC Instructors:

Luis Montalvo John Pilling

Designing Together - A Parallel Studio about Living in the Américas

Program and Site

BAC CD 102 and 710 Studio Home

BRA Design Guidelines for Turnpike parcels - including parcel 7 - click on image to open a .pdf copy of the 63 page document

Aerial view of site. Click on image to open a .jpg file of it

Site Area: Approximately 380,000 SF / 38,000 SM

Program Information:

Housing, Ground Level Retail, Parking, Transit Station / Public Open Space

Housing:

200 to 300 units with an assumed average size of 800 SF / 80 SM

Retail:

43,000 - 64,000 SF / 4300 - 6400 SM on ground floor of 5 to 6 story buildings

Transit / Plaza

Defined more by open space than transit needs - 1200 foot / 370 M rail platform, 400 foot / 123 M transit platform for urban ring,

Parking:

200 to 300 parking spaces for new residential

800 minimum replacement spaces for existing

0 to 400 parking space for growth

Total 1,000 to 1,500 space

click to open a .pdf format file showing building footprints (note that some information about railroad is out of date - refer to aerial photograph for most up to date information).

click to open a .pdf format file showing topography (note that some information about the railroad is out of date - refer to aerial photograph for most up to date information).