CLEVErLAND 1st Prize

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CLEVErLAND 1st Prize

Type

Commercial › Office Retail Exhibition Center
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Cultural › Cultural Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway Parking Bus

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$100M +

Multimodal
transportation design is in the midst of an evolution taking place around the
world. Those hybrids infrastructures like Multi-modal Hubs are evolving in the global economy; more urban and
more dynamic they are connecting tissues into the urban fabric. Our proposal CLEVErLAND
explores the value of a mobility infrastructure as a design opportunity to catalyze
the urban potential of the site, hybridizing infrastructure with landscape and ecology.
The Lakefront Station represent by its strategic position in Cleveland, a great
opportunity to create an macro-urban interface linking the historical vision of
the Mall with the future looking towards Lake Erie.
The design CLEVErLAND will be a new icon for the city. The architecture takes as inspiration the
design of railways lines, merging it with the flowing shape of the waves coming
from Lake Erie. Both images, symbolically
related to Cleveland
historical development. The roof of the station becomes a part of the landscape,
designed as a raised continuation of the Mall, it creates functional relations between the different Lakefront facilities, to the Mall,
while establishing a primarily pedestrian platform for new mixed-use developments.
It becomes a new urban place to make a pause and enjoy sightseeing providing
various dramatics and panoramic views toward the Lakefront and the Cleveland’s skyline, repairing
the fracture created by the existing railway lines.
The chosen
strategy provides several possibilities to integrate into the green roof-terrace
canopy, an energy harvesting system (solar pv) and a rainwater collector. Moreover,
especially at this moment of extreme sustainability preoccupation, the project
will be focused to transform a dynamic civic building into a one unique
sustainable device. The main station hall is the
nerve center of the complex, linking different programs and levels; the hall
provides a living dynamism and constitutes a vibrant transport hub, by a
network of large scale voids that occupy the whole building.