The California High Speed Rail project proposes the whole lenght of the rail as a coherent system, using the catenary as the operating element. It arrives in a place and reacts to the existing conditions performing a differnet variation, while amplifying the existing conditions.
San Francisco Mission Bay station sits a block away from Mission Channel, a remant of the former Mission Bay, directly connected to San Francisco Bay. In it is situated the only floating home community in the city. The strip of water still attracts many of the animal and plant speices typical for the bay, that are rarely seen in the city itself.
Amplifying these conditions, the High Speed Rail multiplies the water edge into the area of the city, allowing for the plants and water to infiltrate the urban tissue and attract in turn the fauna that comes with it.