STRUCTURE | SYSTEM | SPACE| FORM TRANSIT-BASED GATEWAY TO SANTA MONICA UNDER DEVELOPMENT Group work The structure accommodates the existing problems dealing with today’s situations, such as density within permanent and non permanent population, traffic density, and solar orientation.
Closer view of steel structure
Elevation looking from Colorado Blvd
CAUSE: Santa Monica is a magnet for residents out side of the area to come to the city for work, shopping, entertainment. EFFECT: Affordable housing Lack of parking, traffic Growth and development
Instructor: Gerard Smulevich
Transverse section showing vertical circulation Western wind is dominant and has higher accurance compared to winds from other directions Hybrid Sectional Model Climatology: Average seasonal wind direction PROGRAM: The structure is derived from traffic, population density and solar orientation issues. Sun shines at a more acute angle in summer than spring and winter combined
The train station is located at the heart of Santa Monica, where traffic is a big issue, considering the fact that it is next to the Colorado exit, therefore additional program space is available under the station. Providing underground horizontal circulation across streets speeds and clears up the pedestrian traffic. Additional to the train station, the structure provides space for convention center and hotel to accommodate the needs for the people utilizing the space. ADA accesable ramps throughout the structure.
Climatology: Average seasonal solar path
Interconnected City-Scape
Interconnected City-Scape
New Living Urban Culture: MTA EXPO Terminus -West Santa Monica, California
New Living Urban Culture: MTA EXPO Terminus -West Santa Monica, California
10,733.67 people psm 17,150.35 people psm 10,258.87 people psm 6,125.00 people psm 7,908.24 people psm
Los Angeles, California
Density: Population_Permanent Resisdence
14 12
% of visitors
10 8 6 4
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25
20
20
2
15
/1 11 20
20
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06 20
20
/7
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Density: Population_Non-Perrmanent Resisdence: Tourism Degrees
N 330
10
NNW
30
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NNE
20 30 40
300
20:09
5:43
50
ENE
WNW
60
60 70 80
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E
90
7:47
16:49
Noon
(E)Dawn
Spring Summer Winter
WSW
6:56
240
Dusk(W)
E
W
6:30
ESE
120
SSW
210
150
S
S
SSE
Frontal Elevation on Colorado Blvd.
West Section
Scale: 1’-0”= 64’
Climatology: Average seasonal solar path
Climatology: Average seasonal wind
Sun shines at a more acute angle angle in summer than spring and winter combined.
Western wind is dominant and has higher occurance as compared to winds from other direction.
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Santa Monica, California- an attraction zone for local vistors and regoinal travelers for shopping, entertainment and dining is facing overdevelopment and traffic congestion. The new EXPO. line staion will have an impact on how travelers move around in the city’s most visited locale. The growing traffic problem in Santa Monica will partly be migrated with the MTA Expo. line to ferry communters. The train station has an estimated ridership of 52600 travelers going in and out of the city daily. The terminus station would also accommodate tourists a place to experience the new and redefined urban culture with the building’s “mainboard interconnections” that links various different program spaces into one. The Vertical Garden, predominantly located at the southern part of the building, helps to regulate interior temperature by taking most of sun’s solar radiation. It works in parallel with the solar chimney, located at the top of the structure, to circulate air passively.
Santa Monica, CA 2014
Santa Monica, CA 2025
Proposal for MTA EXPO Terminus
The New Living Unrban Culture: MTA EXPO Terminus
Due To MTA EXPO: By 2025 Tourism will INCREASE by 12% Permanent resident density will INCREASE 42.7%
1st Floor Plan showing conference, hotel and mainboard
2nd Floor Plan showing conference, hotel and mainboard
Interconnected City-Scape
Stiffness is added to the system when horizontal structure is added to the node of the triangulation.
New Living Urban Culture: MTA EXPO Terminus -West Santa Monica, California
South sloped chimney in order to trap solar radiation The “Mainboard� positioned to advantage of sunlight, reduce the need for artificial light during the day. The structure will feature a double glass facade that will enhance energy effieciency by reducing cooling costs and allow natural air flow into the building. Gravity and lateral loads flow naturally flow through the Lounge | Lobby | Restaurant structural system. Continues and sustained structural system Dead Load
Natural Ventilation
Vertical Garden
Wind Load
Hotel
W
Conference Center
K Brace Conference Center
Diagrid connection to the ground
Elevator Shaft
S
E Structure load path diagram
Structually the walls are both bearing and shear walls