<< BackWoodbury's Stein part of 'màsTransit' winning project
An interdisciplinary team featuring designers Joshua G. Stein/Radical Craft, Aaron Whelton/AAW Studio, and Jaclyn Thomforde, with city planner Jacob M. Brostoff took the first place prize in the international design competition A New Infrastructure: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles. Stein is a member of the Woodbury faculty.
Inspired by the $40 billion allotted to transit by the LA’s Measure R, the winning entry proposed màsTransit, a regional high-speed rail for Los Angeles with a landscape to match. Promoting dense, organic development, it diversifies the communities in the built environment, making travel less necessary, easier and more predictable, and bypassing roadway congestion through a new raised infrastructure. Looping around the city, with connections to subways and buses, más links local and inter-regional commuting; providing frequent service that will also sync up with the California High Speed Rail network. San Diego via más is less than an hour away, including transfer times; San Francisco is less than three hours away. The team tested the impacts of the infrastructural proposal through research and the design of a Sherman Oaks multi-modal station area in the San Fernando Valley.
Winning selections were made by a jury which included architects Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, and Neil Denari; Aspet Davidian, director, Project Engineering Facilities, LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Cecilia V. Estolano, chief executive officer, CRA/LA; Gail Goldberg, director of planning, City of Los Angeles; Roland Genik, urban planner and transit designer; and Geoff Wardle, director, Advanced Mobility Research at Art Center College of Design.
For more information visit:
www.mastransit.net
www.archpaper.com
www.radical-craft.com
www.aaw-studio.net
The competition was sponsored by SCI-Arc’s SCI-FI program and the Architect’s Newspaper.