miami metromover station, first prize

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100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

catalythic diaphragm, miami metromover competition, first prize*Competition StatementThe new metromover station is a place of interaction, a node and an icon within the urban fabric of downtown Miami. The station is the catalyser of a new urban landscape that flows gently from the Burle Marx sidewalks to the museum plaza through slopes and ramps connecting all activities in the Bicentennial Park.The building mediates between the museums and the station through a screen that can present; science documentaries, art installations or public performances, becoming an interactive diaphragm that will transform the experience of the visitor in the continuous interior-exterior plaza linking the new museums of Miami. competition resultsvideoThe idea of the Metromover station by office-247 is that of a folded landscape that through its form generates a series of connections at different levels; transforming the urban condition of downtown Miami. We propose to shift the position of the station and place it laterally, in between the two new museums in Dawntown Miami. The proposal is meant to create a third urban parament that enclosing the plaza towards the highway, opens up the space southwards to the Bicentennial Park. Performing such an urban action the station becomes a new space within the city, where a new kind of civic condition can be expressed. Formally the station is a folded volume generated through the flow and movement of passengers and visitors creating a series of internal and external ramps that bridge the metromover train lines. The aim is to connect both sides of the station while at the same time creating an internal sloping landscape that flows continually to the plaza in the outside. The proposal is comprised of an interactive facade that looks both sides, towards the station and the plaza. The idea is to generate a diaphragm that you will need to cross under, to access the plaza in your way towards the museums. We propose a new activity that generates a new urban landscape between both museums by utilizing the potential of an infrastructural construction. Materially the station volume is proposed as a white concrete perforated lattice that allows for a continuous airflow with the filtered Caribbean light creating a glittering ambiance in the inside by day; but with the changing atmospheric effect in the afternoon and night by the moving illumination patterns towards the outside by trains and passengers. *The proposal submitted for the metromover station obtained a first prize in the 2009 contest organized by dawntown.org which focuses in extending the debate and generate proposals for central Miami through a series of annual competitions. The proposal registered and submitted by the team office-247: Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas and Armando Oliver Suinaga, was developed working for RMIT University in 2009. OUTr Research laboratory key designers: Rosalea Monacella and Craig Douglas.

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miami metromover station, first prize

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