The new government backed, high speed rail system will redefine the concept of commuting for millions of cal state residents and visitors. The immediate impact of this development will effect the way people work, creating new influx of workers, visitors, and players from across the city boundaries. This will create new platforms for commercial, municipal, and public spaces Strategies for ‘Play and Work’ after high speed rail, TeRRAfoRmA
not preordained. There is, however, a predictable developmental pattern and morphology which through inertia and lack of imagination could fall in to place. Our task is to develop new flexible strategies, both locally and globally. These necessarily would link large scale strategies with small scale structures. In this sense, architects are possibly the best equipped to develop these models and make them visible.
Typologies We are interested in extending notions of architectural repetition and regularity. These notions are already inherent to the subject matter, and we will look at alternatives to the standard definitions. The use of typology here enables us to establish aspects of difference in both degree and kind of a series of generic elements. These range in scale from the regional patterns for development of the right-of-way to the scale neighborhoods, down to the scale of stations, guide ways and their building systems. Regularity in architecture should not be a fully discredited notion, in our time. The diversity that is witnessed in complex systems, whether it be in nature or architecture, is dependent not on a perfect irregularity or regularity, but upon sophisticated expression of forces in matter. Further, the elements of these interactions however indifferent to the accidents of form are productive of complex organizations at larger scales. We are intrigued by the idea that projects would exhibit regularity at the macro and micro scales, while incorporating high capacities for differentiation and variability at the middle scales. Proceeding from the general to the specific, we will examine the relationship of the range of typologies associated with the High Speed Rail