Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System: Preliminary Design Drawings

23/06/1964

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Diagrams, Details, Notes

System 65 – “Train Visibility from Platform” specifies that, from all anticipated waiting areas on the platform, waiting passengers will be guaranteed a certain minimum view into their incoming train so that they may choose the car and door through which they wish to board.

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Project 1 Items

Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit 1964

Bay Area, CA, U.S.A.

Other, Realized

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King and Sara Ishikawa acted as consultants to Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons, analyzing design problems in the BART stations, and listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all ...

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Decomposition Process and the Diagrams

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Reports 1 Items

Bay Area Rapid Transit: Review of System Solutions 02/04/1964

Project, Project Report

100-page report listing and analyzing design problems in the BART stations, organized in 73 related systems, with proposed solutions; it is followed by the list of the 390 requirements for the Transit Station, grouped as per the proposed systems .