Whether you walk, drive, or arrive by train, you immediately recognize the environment where the train, the car, the surface-street means of public transportation, and the pedestrian can coexist without dominating each other.
The station consists of a light-rail stop, fast speed underground way and a slow-speed / pedestrian street. North and south of the station, the slow-speed street is at the ground level. The light-rail lines are raised and split apart. The east-bound platform is located on the ground level. East of the platform the line rises to become a northern entry for the fast speed way. West-bound platform is raised to the third level, becoming an archway for the slow speed street. Retail, entertainment and parking are generally located along the slow-speed street between the two light-rail lines.
In terms of different levels, none of the means of transportation is given a permanent position – all of them rise up and go down at some point. This condition allows the user to observe multiple modes of traffic simultaneously, viewing the movement at different angles and in a complex rhythm of different speeds, celebrating the coexistence of different forms of transportation.
This post was submitted by Jacqueline Hilo.
