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In Transit: Transport Interchange with transient programme

Part 1 Project 2005
Carlos Sanchez
Adam Smith
 University of Bath | UK
Research into Bristol Airport and Bristol’s transport networks culminated in the development of a brief for a transport interchange that dealt with commuters, airport travel and local residents.

‘In Transit’ is a hypothesis based on the unique conditions that a transport interchange creates .The meeting of these flows at a single point, generates a situation with almost unlimited potential for triggering and supporting public life.

‘Creating places out of movement patterns was the idea of the project’.

A complimentary spectrum of events, including art exhibitions and nightclubs, fills the 24hr cycle with a montage of successive and simultaneous peaks – maximum exploitation of location and infrastructure.



This was the final design studio project of Year 4. Students wrote a brief and presented its solution, the commonality being that it was near to Bristol International Airport. Carlos's proposal for a transport interchange in Bristol was well-researched and outrageously ambitious, proposing a new building type with 24 hour use - uniting the existing transport systems and a rail link to the Airport with exhibition spaces and nightclubs. The architecture celebrates its functions by creating vast, mysterious top-lit spaces reminiscent of Piranesi. His master-plan is a catalyst for regeneration of this neglected sector the the city.
Tutor(s)
2005
Site views & Project aim
Speculative and strategic reasoning - research for the development of the brief- house prices, commuting, population, age & topological diagram of transport connectivity
Diagrams showing quantities of transport and people. Analysis used to develop the brief.
Site photograph and aerial view. A vast disused freightyard on the outskirts of Bristol
Site - existing and proposed masterplan. note allotment gradens to the south of the site
Images for potential uses of the building. Diagrams for specific uses and cummulative use. Sketches for field condition strategy on street level and basement level.
Sketch section from bus stops to train platforms showing diverse top lit spaces , and therefore programmes, that occur in the "platform" in between these.
Key diagrams explaining the building. Transports, pedestrian circulation and programme.
Key diagrams explaining the building. Structural system, programme and unifying roof.
Plans showing field condition strategy applyed to the three levels of the building and the roof. Street level adopts urban scale.
Sections- Two sections perpendicular to the flow of transports showing the two forms of pedestrian flow: laminar and turbulent. One section parallel to transport flow, showing materials and lighting qualities. Site section across allotment gardens , build
View down efficient circulation route (laminar flow) - direct visual relationship between bus stop and train platform
1:50 sectional model perpendicular to the flow of transports. Shows structural system and lighting in the three levels of the building. + two atmospheric photographs
Topographical model (context omitted) and 1:200 sketch model -levels and programmatic strategy
1:20 construction sections through the main elements that constitute the building: block, sunken courtyard, void, forest of columns and virendeel girders.
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