TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND PARK DESIGN

This intersection at the riverfront is a sea of asphalt with many dangerous intersections where pedestrians have been run over(3). A school is at the other side of the intersections from where most school children come from. The riverfront is separated from where most park users come from by often heavy traffic. With the hospitals expansion there was a need of over 140 parking spaces.

To address all these issues we designed:

• A very large oval roundabout to manage car traffic with a parking garage for 300 cars (2) in the middle. This parking can serve both the hospital and the park users. This garage is sunken 4 to 5 feet below grade.
• The parking garage and traffic oval are covered by a green roof (1). It allows pedestrians to easily cross from all sides reconnecting what is now separated by dangerous traffic. An elevator takes the users from the garage to this park.
• The new green roof accommodates two baseball fields and tennis courts (1).
• The riverfront is one of the few parks that Cambridge has. With this park the green space has greatly expanded and helps to connect the riverfront park with bucolic views of the river.