Bay Area Rapid Transit: Review of System Solutions

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 ...

Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...

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 ...

“Schedule and Table of Contents” listing the 73 Conceptual Design-Drawings included, each addressing a specific design issue .

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 ...

System 12 – “Adjoining Store Entrances and Window Displays” deals with the problems which will arise if there are different connections between stores and transit stations, as might be desired in certain of the urban subway stations; proposing alternative display ...

40-page report listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all leading to a safer and more adequate functionally environment. A 37-page draft with numbering variations of work priorities is also included .

2-page proposal summary of a program to be followed for the design of the transit cars.