The site I have chosen to work with is the Finch TTC station. Specifically, it is the passenger pickup roundabout and the connection it makes with the commuter parking lot to the west.
I feel that a new structure could be put in place at this location because it is aging and unpleasant to look at. Although it is functional, there is room for improvement.
Nowadays the amount of waiting space is insufficient at peak hours. The vehicular traffic is unsafe for passengers crossing into the parking lot during busy hours and night time.
I am proposing to build an elevated waiting area which then links into a small elevated pedestrian walkway/bridge connected to the parking lot.
The highlighted location is the intended area of intervention.
Please do not take my drawings literally. No, I do not plan to put a death star above the passenger pick up. This is merely a conceptual drawing during the beginnings of design.
Currently, the connection where passengers walk up towards the waiting area is quite closed in. I would like to open up the space and allow natural light to penetrate the area.
The elevated passenger waiting area will be suspended above the transparent ground plane. I intend to create a light supporting structure. The triangulated structure for the waiting area will mostly remain. The structure for the pedestrian walkway is undecided.
After reading your post and speaking with you as well as looking at the potential on the site it seems as though there could be a real widdy use of steel in terms of making an intervention that deploys or expense based on a specific volume of users. For example imagine if the structure behaved like a spring-loaded fire escape. Now I am not saying that that is what you would design but what I am referring to is the kinetic qualities that the project could take and you can imagine that this ability to expand contract and possibly even retract would be quite useful and an appropriate use of steel in this particular project. More to the point it is really only conducive to steal and its assembly
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