b'Beacon Yards Vision:To introduce a campus innovation district in conjunction with a transit orientated development scheme centred around the construction of West Station. The creation of Boston University consultant team West Station in this context, will generate a gateway to one of the regions leading urban interdisciplinary educational institutions, Boston University (BU). By doing so, this will catalyse the growth of this urban campus that will also take advantage of the high amenity of the Charles River waterfront. The vision allows for the existing urban form and networks to be augmented to create new and enhanced elevated public green open spaces.Fan Baiwei Objective:A key objective is to provide additional student dorm housing for BU students Liu Hongqiao through the site, which will be managed by an increase of density surrounding the new Ma Zixiang station. By focusing on connectivity north towards Harvard, this provides an opportunity Zhou Yan for future collaboration, knowledge sharing and leveraging of the agglomeration economic principle. Connections will also be made towards the Charles River and an internal breakdown of educational silos is proposed by diversifying the locations of various faculties. Harvard YardHarvard SquareCity of CambridgeProposed transportHarvard StadiumHarvard Business SchoolCentral SquareCharlesRiverProposed land useAllstonCity of Boston109West StationProposed green space MITAllstonBoston UniversityTown of BrooklineUrban design framework Proposed connection & spineMUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networks - Boston Boston 8pt.indd 16 26/11/2019 5:06:19 PM'