public plaza Case Study for urban design .pptx

Santiago Calatrava, a virtuoso in the realm of architecture, envisioned the Oculus not merely as a transportation hub but as a space that seamlessly blends form and function. The structure’s most striking feature is its soaring wings, which evoke a sense of flight and transcendence. The interconnected, white ribs of the structure create a mesmerizing play of light and shadow, reminiscent of the celestial aesthetics of ancient architecture.

1. Brief about the Project Case study Data- Table (quantitative) Inferences relevant for our project Conceptual Sketch

2. Oculus - Santiago Calatrava Case study 1

3. Architectural Brilliance: A Modern Interpretation Santiago Calatrava’s Vision Santiago Calatrava, a virtuoso in the realm of architecture, envisioned the Oculus not merely as a transportation hub but as a space that seamlessly blends form and function. The structure’s most striking feature is its soaring wings, which evoke a sense of flight and transcendence. The interconnected, white ribs of the structure create a mesmerizing play of light and shadow, reminiscent of the celestial aesthetics of ancient architecture.

4. The station not only offer services to commuter trains, but it also connects with the city’s underground trains, it has interior pedestrian access to Brookfield Place, towers 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as the new transportation complex and Fulton Street Transit Center trad. The building is designed to illuminate the underground train station and the shopping center that opened in March 2016, blurring the line between a railway station, a shopping center and a pedestrian tunnel.

5. Access to the building at street level is at both east and west ends, directly onto stairwells that project into the space high above the floor and act as viewing platforms. Access to the building is made from Church and Greenwich streets through the arches formed by the pillars on the east and west sides of the Oculus. Both the escalators and the elevators, provide access to the upper and lower levels with an offer of 6967.33m2 of commercial space. The breaks of the entrance stairs, at the ends, create a cantilever over the large central space called Transit Hall. The transit hall, with several floors, has been developed with large central terminal and incorporates a lower lobby, an upper lobby that balcony and a public waiting area and retail services. This lobby is approximately 10m below street level and 48.77m below the apex of the operable skylight. The elliptical column-free space is approximately 107m long and 35m at its widest point.

6. Escalators take visitors down the remainder of the height. The mall can also be reached from the PATH and subway train platforms, and concourses that connect the surrounding buildings. The entrance hall, with 28,000m2 free of columns, offers spaces for shops and restaurants of various categories, as well as allowing a fluid circulation for the 250,000 passengers estimated to use the station daily. Ground floor: entrance and exit, public space -1 floor: commercial space, public space -2 floor: commercial space, metro station (entrance and exit).

7. Architectural Brilliance: A Modern Interpretation Santiago Calatrava’s Vision Santiago Calatrava, a virtuoso in the realm of architecture, envisioned the Oculus not merely as a transportation hub but as a space that seamlessly blends form and function. The structure’s most striking feature is its soaring wings, which evoke a sense of flight and transcendence. The interconnected, white ribs of the structure create a mesmerizing play of light and shadow, reminiscent of the celestial aesthetics of ancient architecture.

8. Moynihan Hall, Penn Station - SOM Group-2

9. Project Details - Year Originally Built: 1913 Status of the Project: Completed in 2021 Site Area: 25,900 sq.m ( 6.40 acres) Building Height: 33.83 m (111 ft) Number of Stories: 5 Building Gross Area: 23690 sq. m (255,000 sq. ft) Transit Mode: Bus, Heavy Rail, Subway Platforms: 9 A model for transit and adaptive reuse The only remnants of the original Penn Station are its concourses and platforms. In the 1960s, these subgrade spaces, once illuminated by a grand skylight, were covered over by low ceilings and downgraded to accommodate only 200,000 people. Five decades later, the number of people passing through the station every day swelled to more than 700,000, while the Farley Building—also designed by McKim, Mead & White, with a grand staircase and colonnade that echoed the firm’s design for Penn Station—had become almost entirely vacant. Built above Penn Station’s tracks, the Farley Building was the perfect place for a new train hall. The demolition of the original Penn Station helped catalyze the modern historic preservation movement, and the lessons from that movement guided the creation of Moynihan Train Hall. Rather than treating the interior of the Farley Building as a blank slate, SOM developed a modern design that celebrates the historic, landmarked building. Completing an incredible transformation of a once insular workplace, the design brings in sunlight, emanates a sense of warmth, and integrates artistic elements into a civic space that travelers have not experienced in decades.