Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex
Boston, MA
The new landscape at the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex at Northeastern University serves as a gateway bridge between the existing campus and the adjacent Roxbury neighborhood. A major streetscape intervention and bikeway provides distinct and safe pedestrian and commuter passage. An elegant sloped walkway rises from Columbus Avenue to the Arc, an elevated public landscape that extends across the rail corridor below, connecting people to the heart of campus. Adjacent to the building, a new plaza hovers above a new urban marsh for stormwater treatment and recharge, a historic reference to the nearby Fens. The landscape includes multiple opportunities and new outdoor experiences for gathering, reflection and study, offering a diversity of experience and character within this new urban space. These features are nestled within mature plantings and water elements that cool the landscape and create opportunities for habitat and seasonal variation through bloom and fall color.
Recognition
Boston Society of Landscape Architects | Honor Award for Design 2020
Collaborators
Payette Associates
Photography
Ngoc Doan
STIMSON