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THE BUS STOP HOUSES A FLOW OF MOVEMENTS

Occasionally, I would see people amid decision making, looking up at the bus stop pole, then either walking back into the 1st shelter, or out of the boundaries of the 1st and into the 2nd shelter

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Some people, undecided, would stand in the middle of the two, making them better prepared to access both stops.

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Using my field research, I approximately mapped out the general movement within the bus stop’s region. Noting flows, dwelling points, interactions and people’s visual focus.

The bus stop accommodates a sequential flow of movements, with multiple people taking part, engaging with the space and surfaces that the architecture provides.

For the first ten minutes recording the bus stop there was no action (see above). In the morning, most people would be heading towards the campus, instead of away.

The structure was unoccupied, this caused me to start filming and observing the adjacent bus stop. I noticed that two stops behaved as neighbours; architecture does not work in isolation but with its context. *The individuals that do

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