Cincinnati Uptown Innovation Corridor - Transportation Hub

CINCINNATI UPTOWN INNOVATION CORRIDOR

Project: Transportation Hub, Pedestrian Bridge Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Designer: Morgan Raman

CINCINNATI UPTOWN INNOVATION CORRIDOR Project: Transportation Hub, Pedestrian Bridge Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

02 Midwestern United States is projected to attract and generate high travel demands throughout the country and to serve as a corridor for the establishment of a multimodal transport hub connecting major metropolitan cities. In 2015, the US Department of Transportation launched the Smart City Challenge — a program to use emerging technologies to create an integrated, first-of-itskind smart transportation system geared toward the future of urban transport. The creation of the Cincinnati Uptown Corridor represents the first step in upending this program to upgrade this midwestern city into a major transportation hub of multimodal transportation options for the future rapid, explosive development of the city.

Cincinnati Uptown Innovation Corridor | Transportation Hub, Pedestrian Bridge Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Outline Uptown Cincinnati, located in the Avondale neighborhood is the largest center for economic growth and urban development in the region outside the Central Business District of downtown Cincinnati. The Uptown Innovation Corridor is envisioned as centered near the new highway interchange at I-71 and MLK Boulevard. This location is projected to attract and generate high travel demands throughout the district, and to serve as a corridor for the establishment of a multimodal transport hub connecting major metropolitan cities in the midwestern

US. In 2015, the US Department of Transportation (USDoT) launched the Smart City Challenge — a program to use emerging technologies to create an integrated, first-of-its-kind smart transportation system geared toward the future of urban transport. This project represents the conceptual design of a transporation hub in the Uptown Corridor to demonstrate infrastructure readiness for the future in an area experiencing unprecedented growth and urban expansion to make Cincinnati a center to connect with various other metropolitan cities.

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Urban density map showing location of the project site based on the context of population-based strategic location primacy, site access, and demand.

Neighborhood-scale map showing project site based on locational context.

Street-scale map showing project site based on vehicular/pedestrian/zoning context.

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Precedent Study | WTC Transportation Hub, New York - Santiago Calatrava This transporation hub by Santiago Calatrava is located to the east of the former World Trade Center Twin Towers. As a major transport hub to replace the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rail

system, the this unique building was used as a precedent to explore the parametric design of its cross-sectional structural elements. A Grasshopper script was used in Rhino to achieve the

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modulated repetition of the cross-sectional ribs to explore the to its exactness in reality, but to generate its close likeness and complex composition of the structure leading the architectural to explore the implications of its tectonic development using form. The objective of this study was not to replicate the building visualization, lighting, and physics in the Unreal Engine.

An illustration of the WTC transportation Hub, whose constructed technical cross-section varies from this representation, shows the repetitive arrangement of the purlins through the variability of the transition developing a unique tectonic relationship in the derivation/ deduction of the overall architectural form.

Design Concept | Dynamics of motion in nature In nature, we see many examples of physical energy transport, which can be understood as the basic actions of “attract,” “collect,” and “distribute.” In a hurricane, the motion of the storm moves inward to a point of complete calm while simultaneously distributing rain, wind, and energy in its outer arms. Rain-bearing

clouds are drawn into the center in a circular motion before being flung out again. An ice dancer executing a spin draws their arms into their body to accelerate the speed at which they turn, increasing the expression of kinetic energy; to release that energy as potential, they must once again open their arms to slow

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space for Cincinnatians and as such will include a variety of multiuse platforms. This is a fundamentally different approach to transportation from the model in which transport is intended to In the future of transportation in Cincinnati and other urban help users pass through a space. This concept will cause users centers it is expected that population density will increase and to gather in, pause, and then continue and by doing so, changes public transportation will become more prevalent, possibly even the way in which transportation is viewed. It is no longer “basic” ubiquitous. The design of the transport center can help drive or “utilitarian” but is associated with leisure, convenience, and this conversation and by using strategies found in nature. The luxury. intent is that the transport hub will serve as a central gathering

Form Iterations Using the concept of collection and distribution, explorations of form at hierarchical levels were sought to determine the best way to allocate and orient the architecture around a central core as a conglomeration of quadrant areas that appear to be attracted toward the central core by also have their own character of dynamic propagation around it.

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Focal range of the eyetracker camera to ascertain gaze points Gaze points of 15 different users on image stills of the transport hub digital model overlooking the pedestrian bridge to a parking buiding.

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Gaze points of an image stills of the digital model as viewed from the parking building into the transport hub.

Gaze points of the plan view of the site with abstracted building model to enumerate visual interest in the geometric tectonics of the model.

Visual Analysis | Eye-tracking, pedestrian bridge For this project, eye-tracking research using a tracking device was images of the conceptual architectural form. By creating a pattern used to obtain detailed information about onlooker behaviors and of near-infrared light on the eyes to monitor gaze point, the device preferences from fifteen different users, looking at high resolution provides data that gives unique insights into human behavior

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LEGEND Bee Swarm: recorded points of intense gaze Clusters: Average area of visual interest

Heat Maps: Color-contoured results of degree of visual interest.

Intense gaze (red) to least gaze(green).

and generates perception-based conditions for the architectural data were used in three different formats to interpret human form derived from the visual interaction, providing a platform visual cognitive response to the images. This data was used to to develop additional architectural design innovations. These determine the bridge location and its tectonic features.

Simultaneous view of the transportation hub showing all levels with allocated high-level programs and high-speed rail entry/exit.

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 (above, from top) Simultaneous view of the transportation hub showing all levels with allocated high-level programs and high-speed rail entry/exit.

Heat maps showing areas of elevated interest based on eyetracking analysis of preliminary digital models.

Allocated elements of terrarium in the centre of the building and a pedestrian bridge connection to a park-and-ride multilevel parking garage. (right) Satellite view of project site and geometric design of new loop roads for vehicular access to building. The conceptual digital model is super-imposed to scale to show the close relationship of the building to the site and its context.

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Strategic Plan | Building : Site : Urban Context The elements that integrate the purpose of the transportation hub people/visitors at a neighborhood scale, but also at varying scales to the overall Uptown Corridor development are carefully chosen as demonstrated in the site analysis. The building seamlessly such that the building anchors itself to the location not only to integrates with the existing transportation infrastructure to attract

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Proposed automobile bridge exit ramp for direct access to parking garage from Interstate 71 for park-n-drive users.

Parking garage for building users, local parking, and highspeed rail travelers.

Pedestrian bridge connection between transport hub and parking garage for direct access to park-n-drive users.

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commuters and travellers to encourage and facilitate national for local bus transportation. The pedestrian bridge shown here mass transportation needs of the future with a high-speed rail was designed in greater detail for entry into the 2018-19 ACSAsystem, which is integrated into the building along with facilities AISC design competition.

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The Cincinnati Uptown Corridor Transportation Hub

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