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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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.
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Hi Alex -
ReplyDeleteI have been looking through your posted work to date and trying to understand where you are going with this project -
Here are a few honest thoughts which I hope will really be of some help - see comments to follow
1 Collecting data streams for any scheme is only of any use if you can find elements from it which can be used to good effect - otherwise it’s just not relevant and is endless and random – Try and list out on a single page some of the key ideas you have found so far and demonstrate how you have used them in your design – This should give you a firm logic argument to base your design ideas for this project on -
ReplyDelete2 To date, your hybrid model ideas do not communicate to others what this building might be - It needs a scale reference and a realistic site context setting for it to start to do this -
3 Your project is exciting but extremely challenging - both to draw and to build - Do you think you can achieve both of these targets in the time available? - Do you intend to computer draw this scheme at any stage? – If so, start early – The organic shapes shown will be very complex to hand draw - Try and be very honest and realistic with yourself in this assessment -
ReplyDelete4 You should try to establish a bubble diagram approach at an early stage to determine the total number of room areas required and their relative sizes and relationships to finalise any sort of building footprint target
All this will be very hard and demanding but it should allow you to move forward with a better base of logic and vision -
ReplyDeletePlease come back with any thoughts/queries/problems and I will try my best to help you -
Kind Regards -
Malcolm Walker
my understanding of your project is that you're trying to implement the hybrid model at York Street Station @Dumbo.
ReplyDeleteWhile interesting in terms of your form of the hybrid model, I would suggest that you investigate closely on the scale issues.
I have no problems with your expressive forms per se, but I feel your architecture may not engage the pedestrians and community in your site area (at ground level) but will/may only to viewers and subway riders on Manhattan Bridge.
You should analyse the scale factors involved in the site with your possible architectural proposal and establish and make a case. My sense is, if you ignore these issues and go forward only with your sketches and hybrid model, it will be a lost cause.
Your proposal may become a further catalyst in Dumbo area if you ask the right questions, perhaps more on the community issues and livability of the district.