A-LIVE「Accelerated – Large Infrastructure Viability Experiments」
Suburban Subway
Accelerated – Large Infrastructure Viability Experiments
Tutors: Bruno Peeters and Frank Theyssen
Semester 3, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent
2021-22
See also https://www.blog-archkuleuven.be/a-live-24
Students are encouraged & assisted to proactively seek external expert advice ;
Independent data acquisition & management and its incorporation in the design process are important evaluation criteria.
PROJECT:
Anticipating the extension of the `Red` Subway line to Qatar`s second city of Al Khor, students will develop urban-architectural proposals for Al Khor`s Subway & BRT* station at three alternative locations:
- Al Khor City Center
- Al Khor Mall
- Al Bayt Stadium
*Bus Rapid Transit
OBJECTIVES:
- Seamless connectivity: development of innovative public- and private/shared transport exchange design
- Social Geography: reading the city, develop equitable
- Al Khor as a Destination: Program development & urban- architectural design Transit Oriented
- Ecology and Blue-scape: (re)connecting the
- Research on innovative mobility & social equitable
- Data acquisition & management and pro-active design-oriented processing of external
- Collective dissemination A-LIVE; DELIVERY AS ONE.
Read the full studio description here (pdf)