Studio Ra

Monday, April 5, 2010

Cohesion

I thought it might be nice to begin to get together some cohesion of materials throughout the studio, especially for the final presentation; to begin that process I've drawn up a sketch map of the US with our respective cities highlighted and a simplified version of the proposed high speed rail network from the image James posted earlier:

Below is the link to download the .ai file of the above image:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fn8kb5

I think there's a lot of other studio-wide stuff we could generate, including some nicely presented info on high speed trains, existing stations and networks worldwide, technical station requirements, actual US rail proposals and schedules, etc etc. What do you guys think?

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.