York Street Station Research

The York Street station is located in Dumbo, right underneath the Manhattan Bridge near the waterfront. This means the station has a very unusual design because it is located a bit deep underground with its one island platform in Rutgers Street tunnel. Let's begin at the stations single entrance it is a staircase located directly in the ventilation plant that serves the Rutgers Street tunnel. This short staircase leads to a small fare control area that leads to a long passageway that slopes down a bit, is quite a long and seems to get much more deeper before reaching a single staircase down to the extreme western (railway-north) end of the station's island platform. This is one of the longest passageways I can think of on the subway to reach an exit of any sort. The track walls are sloped a bit because of the tunnel location and have York in white tiled on black that is directly set in an unusual purple trim line that is at the top of the portion of the tunnel walls that are tiled and not painted black. The white tiles along the platform walls are rectangles that look like their holding up a building, not the standard white squares. Along each track on the platform are slightly wider than usual columns painted a medium hue of blue. In addition there are a couple of tiled over, large circular structures set right in the middle of the platform.

Citation
http://www.subwaynut.com/ind/yorkf/index.php

Sketches

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Final Hybrid Model (Run With it)

                                      Models Combined

                                                          Hybrid Model Final

Hybrid Model On Site

My Model will carve into the Brooklyn Queens Expressway resulting in combining the old with the new.

Hybrid Models

 Study Models

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Hybrid Model #4

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Hybrid Model #5

Study Models

Site Impression Collage

My first study model I used the powerful urban wall that is on my site and created this concept model

The second study model came from the idea of sound waves of my loud site hitting this big wall

The Third model was driven from the potential growth sprouting out of my site.

The Word Strand

Based on my Strand Collage I came with this concept model of being strand in an area but with that you can come up with ideas and strand them out to society

Second Study model I used the many connections that a strand can have

Third study model I used strand connection and building ideas as you walk through this strand connection

Forth study model strand could have multiple connection and build this connection to something bigger

Program Collage

First concept model for my program collage was the idea of these waves of sound that are produce through music

Second concept model was driven from the notes that create a motion

Third Concept model was the idea of music sounds moving away from the stage to the audience

Forth and Fifth models were based on the idea of how musical notes move in harmony

My sixth study model was based on the musical note itself and the motion it goes through