Crossroads (Bike/Car Sharing Center) (2nd Year)

Project Purpose: design a bike/car sharing center that would serve as the first of many others in a system in downtown St. Louis.  Local people working in downtown as well as tourists had to be taken into account.

The site is in east St. Louis and centered around many landmarks and important buildings.  I used this to my advantage by taking these into consideration when designing.

A way to associate the bike/car sharing building to the rest of St. Louis was needed, so designing began by simply drawing lines from the site to major landmarks.  These lines eventually became dominant axis of the site and influenced the building and pathways.  The idea is that people come from home to the site, from the site to work, back to the site after work, and finally back home.  This general motion is displayed on the site as a “figure 8” and how people move through the site involves crossing paths.