This story on Fresno's new HSR station is interesting and relevant since Sylmar's station is also slated to be aerial. In my own drawings I don't have it quite at 60 feet from ground to platform but it's close enough and the effect will be similar. The key idea here is, of course, is this: "If it's designed correctly it could be very graceful" – however unlikely that is in real life (rather than thesis-world).
http://canopycanopycanopy.com/7/the_vpl_authority
ReplyDeleteAre you familiar with this bit of architectural fiction? It's something I think you would be interested in: making the argument for a specific HSR system based on unique political, economic and geographic contextual conditions (instead of utopianism or eco-guilt). Unfortunately their diagnosis of California's political system as one capable of developing large infrastructural projects like this is inaccurate, but if we assume this is part of the fiction, the rest of the argument is compelling. Kind of funny that they tossed in the voronoi pattern ("this doesn't feel architecture-y enough... I know, lets script some voronoi!"), I think it weakens the project.
Stephen
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