Winners of LA Transit Competition Announced
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: Más is regional high-speed rail for Los Angeles with a landscape to match. It diversifies the communities in the built environment, making travel less necessary, easier and more predictable, bypassing roadway congestion through a new raised infrastructure. Travel times improve will over time with the addition of new trains. Más also links local and inter-regional commuting, providing frequent service that will sync up with the California High Speed Rail network. San Diego via Más is less than an hour away, including transfer times, and San Francisco is less than three hours away.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: Más is regional high-speed rail for Los Angeles with a landscape to match. It diversifies the communities in the built environment, making travel less necessary, easier and more predictable, bypassing roadway congestion through a new raised infrastructure. Travel times improve will over time with the addition of new trains. Más also links local and inter-regional commuting, providing frequent service that will sync up with the California High Speed Rail network. San Diego via Más is less than an hour away, including transfer times, and San Francisco is less than three hours away.
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LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: Recognizing the vital role that mobility, water, and sewage will play in Los Angeles' future, the city must begin to invest in a core armature of new bundled infrastructures that will allow the city to survive the impending reality of peak water and peak oil. The city is reorganized along the matrices of transportation, water, and sewer networks, and grows infrastructural tentacles in order to ship and receive.
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LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: Recognizing the vital role that mobility, water, and sewage will play in Los Angeles' future, the city must begin to invest in a core armature of new bundled infrastructures that will allow the city to survive the impending reality of peak water and peak oil. The city is reorganized along the matrices of transportation, water, and sewer networks, and grows infrastructural tentacles in order to ship and receive.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: The scheme proposes eroding a portion of the freeway and supplanting it with a new object, mode, and form for adoration—Mag Luv. The high-speed magnetic levitation peripheral train appropriates freeway, right of way, and “dream space” to become a mega structure for the Los Angeles transit system. The loop circumnavigates the city, providing 12 hubs of activity, transportation, and power production.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: The scheme proposes eroding a portion of the freeway and supplanting it with a new object, mode, and form for adoration—Mag Luv. The high-speed magnetic levitation peripheral train appropriates freeway, right of way, and “dream space” to become a mega structure for the Los Angeles transit system. The loop circumnavigates the city, providing 12 hubs of activity, transportation, and power production.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: The physical separations between places of work and play have become outdated and burdensome. Meanwhile the divide between commercial, residential, agricultural, and manufacturing zones has become so exaggerated that the infrastructures needed to connect and sustain them crumble due to lack of upkeep and congestion. In conjunction with newer, faster transit systems, this plan proposes a simple development strategy that collapses the distances between all the elements needed to support our lifestyles by suggesting that workplaces, as well as production of food and goods, should be within walking distance.
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LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: The physical separations between places of work and play have become outdated and burdensome. Meanwhile the divide between commercial, residential, agricultural, and manufacturing zones has become so exaggerated that the infrastructures needed to connect and sustain them crumble due to lack of upkeep and congestion. In conjunction with newer, faster transit systems, this plan proposes a simple development strategy that collapses the distances between all the elements needed to support our lifestyles by suggesting that workplaces, as well as production of food and goods, should be within walking distance.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation:: In a car, the passenger can go from any given point to another in one continuous trip. To achieve this level of mobility in tandem with an increase in roadway capacity, we introduce a mass transit system based upon a Modular Transit Vehicle (MTV for short). This modular system would allow passengers to (1) board from a wide range of street stops, (2) travel along the freeway, and (3) take the freeway exit closest to the destination drop passengers off there, all in one ride.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation:: In a car, the passenger can go from any given point to another in one continuous trip. To achieve this level of mobility in tandem with an increase in roadway capacity, we introduce a mass transit system based upon a Modular Transit Vehicle (MTV for short). This modular system would allow passengers to (1) board from a wide range of street stops, (2) travel along the freeway, and (3) take the freeway exit closest to the destination drop passengers off there, all in one ride.
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LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: This team believes that Los Angeles need not invest in a “new” public transportation system but transform its existing transportation system of freeways into “trainways.” By taking over “freeways” with rail tracks, a comprehensive expansion of the LA Metro will respond to the projects that are indicated in Measure R and will commence at a much lower cost due to taking advantage of the rights of ways established by the freeway.
Image courtesy Sci-Arc/The Architect’s Newspaper
LA Transit Competition Winners
Team’s explanation: This team believes that Los Angeles need not invest in a “new” public transportation system but transform its existing transportation system of freeways into “trainways.” By taking over “freeways” with rail tracks, a comprehensive expansion of the LA Metro will respond to the projects that are indicated in Measure R and will commence at a much lower cost due to taking advantage of the rights of ways established by the freeway.
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SCI-Arc and The Architect’s Newspaper recently announced the winners of A New Infrastructure: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles.
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The ideas competition, featured in a January 21 story in RECORD, drew 75 entries from around the world. The brief, which asked entrants to “rethink the relationship between transit systems, public space, and urban redevelopment,” was inspired by both the federal stimulus program and Measure R—a half-cent sales tax increase in Los Angeles County that promises to provide $40 billion for transit-related projects in the next 30 years. The jury gave first-, second-, and third-place awards, and three honorable mentions, in both professional and student categories. The list of winners is below.
Eric Owen Moss, director of SCI-Arc and jury member, hopes the competition will spur discussion about large-scale planning efforts in the Los Angeles, noting that “it’s a very retrogressive city in respect to any ideas about urbanism or the future of the city.”
Sam Lubell, editor of the California edition of The Architect’s Newspaper, and one of the competition organizers, stressed that the winning entries were only a sampling of many strong proposals, any number of which could contribute to an ongoing discussion of transit planning in the region. There were several themes that ran through the entries, he adds, such as investigating different scales of transit and reclaiming unused land, like highway medians, for mass-transit additions.
Lubell and his co-organizer, Peter Zellner of SCI-Arc’s SCI-FI urban studies program, have scheduled a number of functions following the competition to try to keep the discussion going. An event list is on SCI-Arc’s Web site.
.Professional
1st Prize
Más Transit
Radical Craft: Joshua G. Stein, Jacob M. Brostoff, Jaclyn Thomforde, Aaron Whelton
www.radical-craft.com, Los Angeles, CA
2nd Prize
Infrastructural Armature
Fletcher Studio: Dylan Barlow, Ryan Chandler, Daniel Phillips, Tobi Adamolekun
www.fletcherstudio.com, San Francisco, CA
3rd Prize
Mag Luv
Osborn: Holly Chisholm, Kate Harvey, Armen Isagholi, Takeshi Kobayashi, Michael Pinto, Jared Sopko, Esmeralda Ward, Yuju Yeo
www.osborn320.com, Glendale, CA
Honorable Mentions
Green Tech City
NBBJ: Harry Bairamian, Hrant Bairamian, So Eun Cho, Tony Choi, Scott Hunter, Byoung Kweon, Anthony Manzo, Nnamdi Ugenyi, Jonathan Ward, Tim Zamora
Mobility on Demand
RSA: Dwight Bond, Diane Tadena, James Wong
Go Mixed-Modal
Tom Beresford
Student
1st Prize
Glocalizing Los Angeles
Ryan Lovett
University of California, Berkeley
2nd Prize
Modular Diffusion
Alan Lu, Yan-ping Wang
University of California, Berkeley
3rd Prize
Freeways Are For Trains
Ben Abelman, Vivian Ngo, Julia Siedle
Columbia University
Honorable Mentions
Feeding Community and the Gold Line
Roe Goodman
University of British Columbia
Interstate 10
Tim Do, George LaBeth, Randy Stogsdill
SCI-Arc
Cross-Link/ Cross-Program
Minjeong Gweon
Cal Poly Pomona
Organizer’s Selections
Fast, Fluid & Free
ODBC: Odile Decq
The Answer Is Not Mass(ive) Transit
Wes Jones
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