Daniel Solomon Design Partners (with Michael Dennis) was one of 6 firms invited to participate in a design competition for the new UCSF Mission Bay campus master plan. UCSF's campus in Mission Bay was intended to be both a self contained educational precinct and an integrated part of San Francisco's urban fabric. The site is located on former industrial and railroad land on bay fill in a part of the city that is cut off by an elevated freeway and an adjacent commuter rail line. The design proposed a grid pattern of blocks and streets integrated into the rest of Mission Bay and organized around a large campus green. This was to be oriented north/south towards San Francisco's downtown skyline in order to give identity and a sense of location to the campus.