Studio Ra

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Chicago Site Info

Aerial of site; Union Station is just below left of center, with our intended site just south of the station.

Union Station after renovation

Installation of model fighter planes in the Great Hall in 1942

Union Station (background) with the Concourse (foreground) just after construction

Interior of the Concourse, demolished in the '60s.

Section of Union Station and the Main Concourse, showing early origins of complex sectional qualities

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

We found this transit terminal competition by SOM to be interesting in how the design responded to the dense urban fabric of San Francisco. It demonstrates the ability to be programmatically responsible to the business district through maximizing leasable area.

http://www.som.com/content.cfm/terminal_entrance_high_res

Miami: Climate

Weather Variations:

Miami: Site

We decided to go with Site A.

Train dimensions

Dudes, we were looking at some standards for train dimensions and I thought I'd share them. While there's some variation, we've decided to settle on some only slightly modified from the Japanese Shinkansen. That system has train cars of 25m/82' in length, and about 10' wide. We're going with 8 cars in length, giving a total length of 200m/656'. Trains of this length in France carry about 600 people. It appears that all high speed trains run on standard gauge track, which is about 4'-8" wide; measured from the inside of each rail, as shown in the diagram below. Hope some of that helps!