Charlottesville, Va

It's been a while since I've updated this thing, though not much has changed. As is inevitable, studio projects and everything else have kept me from doing much to advance my research, but in the last few days I've been able to pick it up again and have been running ever since. In a meeting on Thursday, I spoke with Bill Morrish about where I could head with a paper focusing on mobility infrastructure and the formation of place. I suggested my idea of doing an addition to Union Station in Washington, D.C, and he suggested taking the project outside the Federal Triangle to Tyson's Corner, VA. Tyson's is halfway between D.C. and Dulles International Airport, and is currently in the works to get a subway line connecting the two. That, and the proximity of Interstate 66 and other local train services make this location an ideal place to let each of these transit types make their impact. Best part yet, Bill suggested using my original nine essays and interview to frame the parameters to which the project will be shaped. This just might be the first intermodal transit hub designed around the homeless or technology.

So the project will be broken into a few parts:
The first will be a preliminary review which I will give in 2 weeks. This review is our final presentation for Design Research, but really just an opportunity to have some feedback from others to see how we are approaching the ideas and where we can head from there.
The second part will come early next semester, when I present one or a few of my essays from the summer, for the Nix Fellowship presentations.
The third and final part will be my thesis presentation, right now shaping up to be an intermodal transit station located outside Washington, D.C, with urban parallels between D.C. and Paris (to justify not doing a project there, really).

Stay tuned for more. As I continue to get more information / visuals in the next two weeks I will try to post them. The net 4 weeks will be rather busy, so it may not be until then that I update again. Hopefully a few short posts will suffice.