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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Material Contrast

Ticketing, waiting, and service areas will be cool, smooth, and fast.

The rugged exterior of the geode conceals a delicate interior structure.

The landscape and Train Shed will be treated as massive extensions of Sonoran Desert geology.

Mass and Material

Rammed Earth (Color Integral Concrete)

The following images illustrate potential territory of investigation between apparent mass and material lightness.

Loose Ordering System (Transpose Scale: 1"=100')

Apparent Mass - Material Lightness

Tenuous Heaviness - Apparent Mass

Monday, April 12, 2010

Tucson: Massing 01

Overview Looking East

In this proposal, the building sits low on the site. The train shed transitions to a planted roof structure over the parking areas.

View of Entry

The primary entry to the ticketing and service spaces for the station is on the north-west side of the site on Toole Ave near the existing Amtrak station.

Interior View

The roof structure is supported by a trussed frame which is clad on either the interior or exterior face, producing an effect of disintegration or phase change which changes as one moves through the space.

View from South, Parking Access

Parking is accessible directly from the 210. The 2,000 spaces currently planned for the site will serve the new high speed rail connections as well as local light rail, the regional bus depot, and downtown Tucson.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Tucson : Shading Strategies

Williams&Tsein, massing, overhang

Jeddah Airport, Apeture, Massing

Rick Joy, massing, recessed envelope

signal tower, optics, louvers

Tuscon: Site

Source: Bing Maps

Tuscon: Climate

Source: NOAA

Source: http://www.city-data.com/city/Tucson-Arizona.html

Tuscon: Contextual Inputs

Being that Tuscon is a relatively small urban center (City Population: 486,669, Pima County Population: 1,012,018), the most promising local inputs are the specificity and harshness of the Sonoran Desert and a range of high tech industry developed around Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.