Riverboat Terminal

Alastair — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:40:39 +0000

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The Stage Gauge is designed as a landmark to terminate Beale Street that tracks the elevation of the river from month to month, day to day. The pontoon type marine facility makes use of the gangway structure to trace the movement of the river’s elevation. Collectively, the image of the gangway structures could be seen as a “flotilla of sails”. When the river stage is low, the sails appear to be in motion. When the river is high, the sails are static or calm. The gangway ramp lengths are designed to operate as accessible routes between river elevations from 230′ to 185′. This would allow the facility to be open over 95% of the time throughout the year.At the termination of the Beale Street axis is the civic plaza that doubles as the bus and taxi loading area. A glass canopy shelters tourists as they move past the shoreside facility to their respective covered gangway.

The shoreside docking facility is arranged so that the marine facility is not obscured looking either from Beale Street or the plaza.

Above the shoreside facility is the elevated portion of Tom Lee Park, a paved public space that is connected to the park with a landscaped slope.

When the docking facility is not use the canopied area becomes a covered public embankment and promenade along the water’s edge. Where local residents and visitors can sit or walk while they contemplate the Mississippi River through the web of the New Memphis Riverfront

Highline Park Conversion

Alastair — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:30:12 +0000

European canals slice through their cities by connecting with each street they pass under. Now used as linear parks, they survive because they are inseparably connected to the urban system. The highline has to be connected to NYC’s street grid in a similar way to become an integrated and safe part of it. If the highline is thought of as a park in this way then it can become NYC’s Green Canal.A system of stairs and ramps establish a strong connection to the street grid. A stairway at each side of every street leads to the linear park to promote a safer urban environment.

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Exercise, an inexpensive method of staying healthy and an intrinsic aspect of life in the city; is supported with an accessible track raised above the new park. Ramps are provided to move on and off the highline. They are designed as accessible routes and as such, double as wheel chair access. Ramps are a low maintenance alternative to elevators.If walking connections happen at each street and running is 3 times faster then ramps are required every 3rd street.The deep steel structure allows plants and tree roots to occupy the space between the beams. So the green aspect to the park is organized into linear planters that are recessed into the highline.The rail bed itself is perforated to accommodate the stairs and one beam in each case is removed. The running track ramps and stair are supported with a ribbon structure that extends the oscillation concept. Benches and lighting are incorporated into the structure of the track.

The access ramps up to the highline occupy a typical space between the neighboring buildings and the rail structure

The repetitive urban connections create an oscillation of the ground plane. The ramp system is included in this concept just at a different rhythm. The promenade along the highline oscillates from one side to the other. These phase changes happen at the streets and reorient the user from east to west every block.

Standing Architecture » Large Work, Transportation

Riverboat Terminal

Highline Park Conversion