Master planning is a necessary part of any building project. A plan must be devised not just for the physical location of the programmatic element on the site, but also of the time line of the buildings development and the development of the community in which the building resides. Architecture has become about a larger stratagem realized over time, not just one building and its impact on its users. The project being designed is a large public transit station for a large urbanized metropolis. In the case of a public building such as an intermodal transit hub for a region as dense as Southern California, one must consider the impact the design solutions will have on the region and the experience of each individual rider. When the program gets increasingly complex such as bus terminals, train terminals, retail centers, hotels, etc., the natural reaction is to separate them; however, I intend to integrate them with each other so that they create one cohesive system of paths and
nodes which exist independently in operation but rely on each other through usage. The node will be a microcosm of the larger system of paths and nodes it is a part of.
The 17 acre Southern California Intermodal Transportation Exchange
Center of Anaheim (I.T.E.C.A.) is the southern terminus for
the California High Speed Rail and will be the gateway to Southern
California and Anaheim resort districts for over 100 million
visitors annually. The strategy behind the station is to create a 24
hour public pro enade and urban core for a complex contextual
condition of stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks;
not ignoring them but becoming the connective tissue between
them.
The I.T.E.C.A. is organized by public axes which delineate the directions
of vectors and programmatic functions toward the Santa
Ana River and are rooted in contextual markers such as the Angels
Stadium and the Honda Center. The project is composed
of programmatic function fragments, which function independently
but interact with each other in the form of overlapping elements
and transparency through material use and composition.
The site then becomes a system of intersecting functions (program)
and vectors (paths) which encourage interaction and have
the capability to evolve and grow based on the same easily duplicable
geometries as technology changes, population increases,
and the rail systems in America vastly grow as planned.