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Your Transit Station: A Place to Fall in Love? AICP CM 1.5 There may be more than transit and riders connecting at your 21st-century station. Nowadays, being an efficient transit access point is not the only design challenge. Stations anchor place making and build communities. Your station has to create value and be a good neighbor. It has to be a place where someone could fall in love. Hear three transit romance stories: Minneapolis’s new Target Field Station features great public spaces and integrated development. Reconstruction of two rapid transit stations in Cleveland’s University Circle is turning “scary places” into vibrant urban spaces. The transformation of Pittsburgh's East Liberty BRT station anchors an impressive strategy to bring back a blighted former urban renewal district that's attracted Google and Whole Foods. Moderator: Val J. Menotti, Planning Department Manager, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California Peter David Cavaluzzi, FAIA, Principal, Perkins Eastman, New York, New York Alan Hart, AIA, Founding Principal, VIA Architecture, Vancouver, British Colombia Rebecca Schenck, Senior Project Development Specialist, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Vancouver’s Millennium Line: A Love Story
Alan Hart, AIA Founding Principal, VIA Architecture Sea@le, San Francisco, Vancouver
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Rail~Volu)on 2014 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Why do we design transit systems?
For communiDes For people For real lives For lovers
Vancouver perspecDve
The best
freakin’ place !
Rethinking transit: Expo Line
Rethinking transit: Millennium Line
Rethinking transit: Millennium Line
Rethinking transit
Expo Line Millennium Line
Rethinking transit
Expo Line Millennium Line
Rethinking transit
• As designers, how can we make transit part of a community?
• How can we make transit an extension of place?
This goes beyond TOD, rezoning, and density discussions. It goes to the heart of a place.
How do you create a place to fall in love?
We recognized that the Grandview cut once divided Vancouver.
We asked the quesDon of how we could use it to unite Vancouver instead.
We heard:
We spent months listening hard to the communiDes. We asked them what these places wanted to be.
• a marketplace • open and transparent • safe and welcoming • a lookout • an extension of our homes • the heart of our neighborhood
We kept the best of the Expo Line:
We asked: Do all staDons need to look the same?
Elements of conDnuity to support wayfinding and system idenDty Elements of disDncDon to support placemaking and staDon
idenDty
We engaged arDsts to provide delight.
And children to imagine how the fish would feel.
We engaged young designers to challenge design assumpDons.
We chose materials that were fresh and unexpected:
Wood to make the staDons expressive of the region, and to provide warmth
Glass to make the staDons open, safe, transparent, and beacons of light
Because of our depth of community engagement and consistency of vision, we completed the line from design to operaDon in less than four years.
And under budget. A frugal romance.
And then we let go. Because these places belong to the community.
How do we measure success?
1. People get married at our transit staDons.
How do we measure success?
2. People think of the SkyTrain in Super Mario style.
How do we measure success?
3. People hold skateboard contests in our transit plazas.
How do we measure success?
4. People find beauty in our transit staDons.
How do we measure success?
5. So much so that they create art about them.
How do we measure success?
6. And create birthday cakes shaped like trains.
In the end, it’s about everyday life.
And love.
Thank you.
Alan Hart, VIA Architecture ahart@via-‐architecture.com
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