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

23/06/1964

Architectural Design, Preliminary Design, Diagrams, Details, Notes

System 9 – “Sound and Air Movement Control at the Barrier” specifies the controls required at the platform’s edge to isolate tunnel noise, air movement and drift, proposing methods to alleviate the cavernous feeling that is created in enclosed subterranean spaces.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King, Sara Ishikawa, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

10 3/4"x22 3/4"

Content of

Project

Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit 1964

Bay Area, CA, U.S.A.

Other, Realized

Client:

Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King, Sara Ishikawa

Project stages:

Analysis of requirements by hierarchical decomposition Concept design

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 ...

References

Scientific Research

Decomposition Process and the Diagrams

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Early Mathematical Approach

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

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

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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 .