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Chicago Union Station Design Competition
B.L.U.R. STATION
Billboard Landscape Urban Rail (B.L.U.R.) Station is a
concept for a future high-speed rail station utilizing the notion of billboard
as building to convey the essence of speed, motion, and connectivity.
The billboard is used to communicate remotely from onboard
cameras along the train recording the changing landscape along its route onto
the billboards themselves, thereby “blurring” the geographical divide between
environments, people, cities, and cultures.
The extruded planes represent the high-speed rail buried
underground by allowing B.L.U.R. itself to be the geometric manifestation of the
linearity of high-speed rail extruded from the bowels of buried infrastructure
up onto the urban surface.
The planes are also used to integrate the old with the new
by conveying the static nature and rigidity of the historic Union Station
reiterating its box-like constraints by placing two inline parallel planes at
either end. As the series of planes
encroaches on the high-speed rail station, rigidity is incrementally replaced
by motion and the spacing between the planes converges exponentially as they
are “pushed” against the river. Further,
the last billboard plane (the hotel), along with the track beneath, are angled
reflecting the constraint of the river. This
pushing and crowding condition is also further emphasized by allowing the
planes to “slide” against each other as their spacing diminishes, further
representing the linear lateral motion of high-speed rail.
In today’s society, media manifests itself into the
environment in many ways. B.L.U.R. takes
the idea of the billboard, known for embodying the visual eyesore of the
countryside or tacked-on ornament in present day buildings, and develops it
beyond its negative threshold to be celebrated in the urban setting of Chicago’s Union Station.
Billboard Landscape Urban Rail (B.L.U.R.) Station is a
concept for a future high-speed rail station utilizing the notion of billboard
as building to convey the essence of speed, motion, and connectivity.
The billboard is used to communicate remotely from onboard
cameras along the train recording the changing landscape along its route onto
the billboards themselves, thereby “blurring” the geographical divide between
environments, people, cities, and cultures.
The extruded planes represent the high-speed rail buried
underground by allowing B.L.U.R. itself to be the geometric manifestation of the
linearity of high-speed rail extruded from the bowels of buried infrastructure
up onto the urban surface.
The planes are also used to integrate the old with the new
by conveying the static nature and rigidity of the historic Union Station
reiterating its box-like constraints by placing two inline parallel planes at
either end. As the series of planes
encroaches on the high-speed rail station, rigidity is incrementally replaced
by motion and the spacing between the planes converges exponentially as they
are “pushed” against the river. Further,
the last billboard plane (the hotel), along with the track beneath, are angled
reflecting the constraint of the river. This
pushing and crowding condition is also further emphasized by allowing the
planes to “slide” against each other as their spacing diminishes, further
representing the linear lateral motion of high-speed rail.
In today’s society, media manifests itself into the
environment in many ways. B.L.U.R. takes
the idea of the billboard, known for embodying the visual eyesore of the
countryside or tacked-on ornament in present day buildings, and develops it
beyond its negative threshold to be celebrated in the urban setting of Chicago’s Union Station.
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