Shape Computation Lab

Density | MMPT, Gulch, Atlanta, GA

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01. Abstract models showing figure ground reversals of equal volume free standing buildings vs. low-rise courtyard buildings.

02. A model of downtown Atlanta as is today.

03. A model of downtown Atlanta with new high-rise development.

04. A model of downtown Atlanta with low-rise landhuggers developed at the 75/85 and 20 intersection, the Gulch and other urban infills.

05. Ground level of the MMPT at the Gulch showcasing the light rail

06. Level 02 of the MMPT at the Gulch showcasing the MARTA lines

07. Level 03 of the MMPT at the Gulch showcasing the MARTA lines

08. Level 04 of the MMPT at the Gulch showcasing the Greyhound terminals

09. Level 05 of the MMPT at the Gulch showcasing vehicular access

10. Top Level of the MMPT at the Gulch

Kim Jensen and Michael Kolodgy

ARCH 6051: Landhuggers Design Studio

Athanassios Economou, PhD

School of Architecture

College of Design

Georgia Institute of Technology

Fall 2003

 

Keywords

Landhuggers studio; Multi-modal transportation systems; Courtyards; Urban modules; Shape grammars

Atlanta is anticipating a 2M people growth over the next twenty years. This growth can be accomodated over highrise buildings in the center of its core or it can be dispersed in over a larger area of low rise, crawling mat buildings over the exsiign networks as well as in close proximity to the interstates prividing new opportunities for urban morphologies. These new sites can restructure the urban fabric of Atlanta both at its interstate intersections as well as in its central core once full of transfer stations for the trains and nowadays a void, empty space with no function ir identity. The project proposes a vast injection into downtown Atlanta that features organizational rigor and iconographic markings. The site is the Gulch and the program is connected to the systems and stations of the Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal. The different networks of program, pedestrian, vehicular, Marta bus, taxi, Greyhound bus, GRTA bus, Amtrak feeder bus, metro, Amtrak rail, Georgia commuter rail, are all intertwined, each keeping its identity and still combined spatially in a crawling urban mat mega-structure.