What’s the overall plan going to look like?
Again, the property’s main feature is a broad hilltop with land that slopes down about 80 feet. The community is designed to work with the natural site features, preserving vegetation and setbacks. A curved ridge building will house common activities (such as dining, meeting rooms, library, classrooms, faculty offices, and other fully functional rooms consistent with a college setting) and extend along the north of the hilltop, forming the edge of a landscaped, park-like open space. This ridge, which has parking under it, provides the main connecting element of the community and gives access to four Senior Scholar residential buildings that radiate from it and step down the hillside. In addition, there are four other dwellings that line the south edge of the hilltop that reflect the scale of some private homes along Wellesley Street. Over 75 percent of the site will remain as open space. The natural grade of the site is utilized to step the main building into the hillside and use the n
