Connecting to Paris

Connection to Paris

Written and Directed:

Bryan M. PendzinskiConnection to Paris

Index

location and context

urban proposal

avenue henri barbusse

la gare

place making

Connection to Paris

Sustainable Approach

Eco Spine Analysis

Growth of a City

Material Cooperative

Population Growth

Eco Spine

Re-programming the Problem

Station Analysis

Functional Wall

Centers Along the Spine

Redeveloped City Centers

Balancing the Spine

Transit Center

fosses_ location & context

Paris

Fosses

Connection to Paris

France

Paris

Fosses is known as a sat-ellite town north of Par-is. The town is separated by a “green corridor” between it and the suburbs and exists on a physical growth line that separates towns from agriculture further to the north. It is important to understand Fosses as a town that de-mands the retention of its identity; a town that re-mains independently sus-tainable from the growth of Paris. A town that can grow in density without compromising the natural landscape around it.

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gateway to agriculture

Fosses is a town connected to larger cities through a network of infrastruc-ture including roads and rails. Both carrying goods, services and people from town to city. Fosses plays a major role in the transportation of food and manufacturing. It provides food for other cities, while stocking industri-al materials until they need to be shipped. Aero-port Charles de Gaul is an important factor in the transportation of these materials.

Fosses is situated on the intersection of ma-jor north-south axis: RER D, and two highways (A1,D317)which connect Fosses to Paris and the airport. These axis in-tersected by a departmen-tal road D922 which runs east-west through Fosses. This spine of infrastruc-ture physically serves as “health line” separating constructed land to the south and natural agricul-ture to the north.

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PARIS - Gare du Nord (36km)

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Lille (190 km)

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Chantilly (15km)

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Roissy - Aéroport CDG (15km)

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Cergy (41 km)

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Fosses - Acces and distances

Fosses - Accès et distances

PARIS

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Aéroport Roissy - Charles-de-Gaulle

Parc naturel régional Oise-Pays de France

Parc naturel régional du Vexin Français

Fosses and neighbouring

Fosses et ses alentours

FOSSES

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Bellefontaine (4km)

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Survilliers (1,5km)

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Lassy & Le Plessis(6km)

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La Chapelle-en-Serval(4km)

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Puiseux-en France(6km)

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Louvres (7,5 km)

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Plailly (6km)

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Saint-Witz (5km)

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Population Growth

Fosses was fi rst settled in “Vieux Fosses,” where the terrain was the lowest and most of the water was stored. Fosses was known for making pottery because the clay in Old Fosses was so rich. Over the years, the town grew east along the valley. Recently, the town has begun to radiate away from the valley.

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Although the east-west spine of the city serves as a main connection for transportation and com-mercial activities, it is surrounded by low density housing. Therefore stress-ing the use of the car throughout the city.

Much of the industry and stockage exist along the rail coming into Fosses. Some has developed along the spine, which increases the number of large ve-hicles through the town. Consequently decreasing the pedestrian scale and city development along the main avenue.

One major park for the town is located on the in-tersection of the spine; however, the roads are dominated by vehicles and residents choose to drive rather than walk. It be-came apparent that the density of housing sur-rounding important nodes was a factor in how peo-ple moved and interacted throughout the town.

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connecting the central nodesThe spine, Avenue Henri Barbusse, provided major nodes throughout the town. Each of these with existing program that promot-ed growth of activity and life along the spine. Additional program was developed to connect each of the nodes, creating a network of movement from the train station to Old Fosses. This concept would begin to spread to surrounding towns along the spine.

FOSSES par les départementales (D922)

Cergy60 000 habitants

Pontoise30 000 habitants15 000 emplois

Fosses10 000 habitants

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The train station is a ma-jor transportation node. It is where all residents and visitors enter the city. This node should be thought of as the “Face of Fosses.”

The city center includes most of the “downtown” ac-tivities: library, recre-ation, post offi ce. There is a new city hall cur-rently being developed.

The park is a main node for recreation and relax-ation, it is connected to community gardens that serve the locals of Fosses and surrounding towns.

“Vieux Fosses” was once a thriving city center but since development has moved east it has lost its independent sustainability and has become more depen-dent on the car. Its con-nection to new Fosses is crucial to the survival of the town and its identity.

major nodes develop along the spine


Localize markets and shops to walking distances for

locals.

Preserve local communi-ty and culture by mixing residential, commercial

and businesses within the neighborhood.

a local perspectiveIt became apparent after speaking with several of the locals in Fosses that there was a problem. Fosses was falling to the demands of growth outside of it. Slow-ly turning into a town where people only came to sleep, then leave for work and for leisure, and return only to sleep. It was important to re-establish its culture by preserving the community.

Archeologist Local of Fosses


More community gardens and infrastructure that promotes

local agriculture.

Local businesses are disappearing because of big

business and commercial groceries who get food from

outside Fosses.

Local Farmer Community Gardener

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Fosses s’étale, ce qui crée une rupture entre les lieux

de travail et de vie.

= Quitter la ville et en faire une autre

Etalement urbain Hypermarché Utilisation de la voiture

Les commerces de proximité ferment

Etalement des banlieues

Centre-ville désertés Moins decommunautés

Parking Emissionde CO2

= environnement pollué

= augmente la criminalité

= Environnement et éducation civique se dégradent

Moins d’agriculture locale

Démolition de la nature

Urban Proposal:

what is a sustainable city?

What makes a city sustainable?

Ce qui rend une ville durable?

Densify the city center.

Densifier le centre-ville.

Increase local agriculture.

Augmenter l'agriculture locale

Living, playing and working in the same areas is sustainable and promotes community.

Vivre, jouer et travailler dans les mêmes zones est durable et encourage la communauté.

Sustainable approach to buildings we inhabit.

Une approche durable des bâtiments que nous habitons.

Excess garden materials can be sent to areas in need.

Matériaux de jardin en excès peuvent être envoyés dans des zones qui en ont besoin.

Material waste can be recycled or composted.

Déchets de matériaux peuvent être recyclés ou compostés.

Localized healthy and sustainable transportation

Localisé de transport sain et durable

Provide a material transit line to other sustainable cities.

Fournir une ligne de transport du matériel à d'autres villes durables.

Buy and Grow food in the same places

Acheter et produire de la nourriture dans les mêmes lieux.

Rehabilitate existing buildings... recycling centers, compost centers

Réhabiliter les bâtiments existants... les centres de recyclage, de compostage des centres

Industry and agriculture grow sustainable energy.

L'industrie et l'agriculture se développer de l'énergie durable.

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A Sustainable Approach

What are the components of a city? What does it need to function? The diagram was a guideline to develop a city that was independently sustainable that could link to other sustainable cities and share resources, ideas, culture, etc. The diagram starts with existing compo-nents of a city and questions the inter-connectedness of each component.

closed loop sustainable approach

Living, playing and working in the same areas is sustainable and promotes community.

Vivre, jouer et travailler dans les mêmes zones est durable et encourage la communauté.

Rehabilitate existing buildings... recycling centers, compost centers

Réhabiliter les bâtiments existants... les centres de recyclage, de compostage des centres

Increase local agriculture.

Augmenter l'agriculture locale

Localized healthy and sustainable transportation

Localisé de transport sain et durable

Provide a material transit line to other sustainable cities.

Fournir une ligne de transport du matériel à d'autres villes durables.

mix uses

clean industry

local agriculture

healthy transportation

connecting cities

Create places where people work, play and live in the same area. This will promote community and in-vestment within the city. Update housing to conserve and create energy. Cre-ate restaurants and stores that grow there products locally.

Use the archetypes of ex-isting industries to manu-facture power with solar panels on the roofs. Reha-bilitate industries into “clean industries” that are used for recycling centers and compost stor-age. These programs facil-itate each other and begin to work together.

Increase the local system of growing food, create an intelligence on where products come from and the health of the town and people within it. Farms can grow energy and the waste can be recycled.

Localize a variety of transportation hubs throughout the city. Pro-mote sustainable healthy ways to move through the city, while decreasing automobiles through high density pedestrian traffi c.

A local public rail to connect other sustainable cities. This line would share people and resources to maintain a balance from city to city.


Develop an urban-farm relationship.

Créer une relation entre l’agriculture et la ville

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Containing Sprawl_ Focusing Fosses on being an indepen-dent, self sustaining town.

Directing local crops into the spine of teh city.

agricultureUnderstanding Fosses’ lo-cation and context made it important to establish an urban-agriculture rela-tionship within the town. Because the agriculture surrounding the town is so important, the residents need to participate in the function of the farm on a local level. This would provide an intelligence of the cyclical process of growing and buying food.

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Re-route cars to the periphery and relieve dense traffic on the spine.

City centers are connected through the Eco Spine and function as a dependent system

The train is an industrial spine, sending and receiv-ing recycling, compost and food to other cities.

Parking at the edge of the city to eliminate driving through Fosses.

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Re-locate industry along major truck highways and the train line.

Acupuncture the spine with necessary program

Eco Spines grow from the main spine.

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Contain the existing city and stop urban sprawl.

Stopper l’étalement de la ville

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The RER D connects Fosses to Paris.

Le RER D relie Fosses à Paris. The spine intersects with major roads. Allowing for sustainable transit stations.

Bicycle intervention!

La “colonne vertébrale” traverse la ville et croise les routes principales. Promouvoir les transports propres. Vélorution !

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Industry is directly connected into Fosses

L'industrie est directement relié au Fosses.

Monoculture housing surrounds the areas of re-development.

La monoculture de logement entoure les domaines de réaménagement.

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growth boundary

infrastructure

housing and industry

The internal agriculture of the city would al-low population density to increase while dimin-ishing the need to grow, overtaking the existing agriculture. For the fu-ture, Fosses would be a self sustaining city that provides food and products for other cities.

The infrastructure con-necting Fosses becomes important in the role of connecting products and people. It is important to program roads and rails to serve for specifi c func-tions as they work congru-ently with the programs surrounding them. The main spine of Fosses will be-come an Eco Spine, placing emphasis on healthy and sustainable transportation

Programmatic systems need to work together. As both housing and industry are woven into the Eco Spine, they need a positive im-pact on its development. This balance of harmonious production, use, and waste need to become a strategy for sustainability that promote the growth of the Eco Spine.


Major city nodes devoloped from infrastructure intersections.

Nœuds majeurs de la ville issus des intersections des infrastructures.

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Rehabilitate centers with needed program.

Réhabiliter les centres avec le programme nécessaire.

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La D922 comportera les programmes nécessaires au développement et à la connexion avec les villes voisines

Eco spine will carry the necessary programs to balance and connect the city.

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reverberation nodes

center development

eco spine programs

Each node was derived from existing city centers and has potential to reverber-ate life and ideas from the spine into the mass of the town.

Each city center was ana-lyzed according to exist-ing program (black) and program that is needed (green) as a way to bal-ance the spine and create functional nodes that sup-ported the sustainability of each area.

The Eco Spine will have a constant parallel stream of supporting program that help the development of the life line through the city. These programs would focus on, transportation, energy, recycling, water, health, industry and agri-culture. Each becoming sub nodes that supported major city centers.


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Privatized transit hogs the road, the cars must be re-routed!

Privatisée la route pour les transports propres, les voitures doivent être re-routé !

Relocate cars to the periphery to relieve congestion within the city.

Relocaliser les voitures à la périphérie pour soulager la congestion dans la ville.

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1 kmkThe bus loop will take traffic through the density of the city while

connecting back to the periphery.

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The train station to Old Fosses is a distance of 3km. The travel times for each mode of transporta-tion through the spine al-low cars to move quickly through the city while other public transit is slowed down. The spine will focus on eliminat-ing cars and inserting healthy sustainable forms of transportation along the spine.

Cars are directed away from the center of the city. Electric car park-ing/ charging areas are available on the periph-ery to eliminate the need to drive through the town. From these locations al-ternative transporta-tion may be taken to move through the town.

A local bus route will be added to the exist-ing routes. This loop will include major nodes on the spine while gather-ing pedestrians from the interior of the town. The one-way loop decreases the area of road needed for traffi c, giving back to the Eco Spine.


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Redeveloped City Centers

My city center has living, commercial, business and transit systems that work together, making it

easy to commute sustainably when i need to.

Mon centre-ville a des systèmes vivants, commerciaux, d'affaires et de transit qui fonctionnent ensemble, le rendant facile à commuer durable-

ment quand j'ai besoin de.

It is great that transit systems are supporting our local agriculture in sustainable ways!

Il est grand que les systèmes de transport sont le soutien à notre agriculture locale de manière durable!

rer transit centerThe transportation hub will become the “Face of Fosses” as it is renovated into a sustainable area for shopping, living and working. Parking on the periphery eliminates interior car congestion and promotes healthy alternative transpor-tation. These new structures will grow energy and store water that will be used for the Eco Spine and local markets.


My family is starting an urban garden at our house, this way we can grow food for our meals and for neighbors

who cannot make it to the market.

Il Qué Grand Est Les Systèmes de transport sont le Soutien à l'agriculture locale de Notre Manière durable! Il est grand que les systèmes de transport sont le soutien à notre

agriculture locale de manière durable!

I can charge my car and use public transit while I work in Fosses. When I leave, my car is charged and I can get home or

back to the office.

Je peux charger ma voiture et à utiliser les transports en commun pendant que je travaille à Fosses. Quand je pars, ma

voiture est chargée et je peux rentrer à la maison ou au bureau.

new fosses The city center of Fosses includes pri-mary activities for living and working, while also being located to schools. The area has a unique connection to industry in the ways that it is connected to work together as a system. Students learn to grow food, while others are employed at the recycling and compost centers, which grow energy for local homes and busi-ness.


I buy my food from Fosses, because it is locally grown and locally owned!


The garden is a sustainable way of life, I grow food for local markets and restaurants in Fosses.


agricultural/ trade_ learning parkThe park becomes a large market between Old Fosses and the station. The local com-munity gardens provide food for events and holidays throughout the city. The park has a large emphasis on alternative transporta-tion throughout the city and is known as the bike hub. At these events, local residents have the opportunity to meet the farmers and business owners of the community to share concepts and ideas of sustainable life.


old fossesThe old city is a primary example of the organization and development of a sus-tainable city. In one center, the town offers local transportation, local ag-riculture for the restaurants and resi-dents. It has a balance of industry to maintain the life cycle of products, while also providing areas to work, live and play. On a small scale, Old Fosses is the representation of a sustainable city.

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Eco Spine Analysis

The existing spine of the city is a two-way road that connects the sta-tion to Old Fosses. It is also a departmental road that connects towns east to west of Fosses. The central portion of Avenue Henri Barbusse contains a mixture of low density housing, scattered com-mercial and other types of program. In many areas, it is common to see large set backs and pedestrian walk ways that are used for car parking. As a result, pedestrians are deterred from walking and all pub-lic function is turned away from the street, depleting any sense of community. The objective organize activities on the spine that promote commu-nity.

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sustainable transit

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Along the spine there is a need for al-ternative transportation hubs, unnec-essary car parking will be turned into energy growing bus stops and alterna-tive transportation / storing facilities. These modes of movement will generate a sustainable growth throughout Fosses.

Abandoned lots provide space that can be transformed into outdoor markets where locals can buy and sell food grown from the Eco Spine. This will support local business and decrease the energy used to ship and receive food products. This ac-tivity will reinforce the urban-agricul-ture relationship.

Corner lots are a good resource for com-munity gardens. Restaurant owners across the street can use the products grown here for their business. This example of “across the street connection” is a pri-mary example of building a relationship and community throughout the Eco Spine.


Abandoned lots renovated for recycling centers and stocking compost for the Eco Spine.

The Eco Spine acts as a closed loop sustainable system with many programs that simulta-neously work together and

support eachother

Sustainable restaurants grow food on the Eco

Spine, minimizing transportation of food.

One way bus loop through Avenue Henri Barbusse to reduce traffic density.

Bike lanes for healthy and sustainable transportation.

Waste water management centers to reduce potable water consumption for housing and businesses.

Material management and recycling to reduce the

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Re-programming the ProblemThe primary focus of the Eco Spine is building a relationship across the street as a way to promote community. In the same sense, the section of the street needs to be thought of as a shar-ing mechanism as well. The whole process is a machine of sharing and recycling to build a sustainable health line through Fosses.

Housing, commerce and business work together in a sustainable cycle with the urban farm to grow, produce and use energy.

Logement, commerce et des affaires travaillent ensemble dans un cycle durable avec la ferme urbaine à se développer, produire et utiliser

l'énergie.


The existing Avenue Henri Barbusse uses alot of space for roadside parking which eliminates and public functions toward

the street and neighbors.

By taking back space allotted by setbacks and roadside parking, it is possible to design an Avenue that services many

public functions and promotes community across the street.

Avenue Henri Barbusse becomes a dynamic public route stitching together the programs on either side of the street.

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reclaim parking

eco spine area

The existing avenue pro-vides valuable space for residents to park their cars. In return, the wall of cars diminishes com-munity towards the street and residents turn there back on the public space.

The avenue will reclaim areas used for car parking and program them as public park. These areas will re-establish focus on to the public avenue and promote community activities along the spine.

Avenue Henri Barbusse be-comes a dynamic public route, stitching together community on either side of the street all the way through Fosses. The con-cept is a sustainable ap-proach meant to extend to neighboring towns.


Balancing the Spine

The Eco Spine is dynamic within it-self, already providing an array of pro-gram through it. The width of the spine changes at different points throughout Fosses and provides an opportunity for several variations and scale of program. Each section focuses on the relation-ships across the street.

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Place Making:

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The concept of the project was to design a piece of architecture that would benefi t an existing place. On the notion of con-serving land, the project would exist on a previously constructed site. The program of architecture is within parallel thought of the urban project, as its purpose is to al-low the growth of density, while decreasing the need for more space.

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Material Cooperative

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It is possible to decrease the amount of space we need for living by reducing the amount of materials we store. Materials that are rarely used can be publicly ex-changed rather than privately owned. In return, it will decrease the energy needed to produce so many items, decrease the en-ergy used to ship these items, decrease the amount of waste produced and decrease the area to store the waste.

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The stair becomes a prototype for public space making throughout Fosses.

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mix-use infrastructure

Infrastructure is what con-nects our towns to our cities, it takes up a lot of natural landscape, and a lot of time is spent traversing these veins of our countries and states. Smart infrastructure can be programmed to contain multiple uses and functions, meeting needs of the various people and activities that use it.

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proportion and planning

Growth of a City

For each example, indus-try is located towards the edge of the city and ad-jacent to a transportation route. In each, the town is built on both sides of the rail. The industry starts to be perceived as a boundary, where hous-ing and other functions are no longer built around it . Many of the edges are formed by transportation routes. Roads and rails defi ne city edges, much like a river would defi ne a border.

Where should the indus-try be located so each town can maintain a cen-tral downtown and keep an identity without allowing industry to take over?

If roads and railways are perceived as physi-cal edges, then how are these zones used? The lines should be designed for multiple uses and ac-tivities that stretch in a linear fashion from town to town.

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shopping and transit

mix use vehicles

program the road

Airports and major travel hubs are becoming centers for other activities, pri-marily commercial. These areas are programmed to work together and decrease travel from one activity to another.

Vehicles have been used for multiple purposes as well. Food can be deliv-ered hot and ready, this is different from the classical version of a family automobile .

Roads have also been pro-grammed to hold multiple functions. They are not only for cars, many dif-ferent types of users ex-ist within infrastructure.


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The combination of industry and housing is necessary for cities. These functions need to be integrated so they are not opposite forces repelling one another, rather work-ing together. By understanding the po-tential of mix use infrastructure, it is possible to imagine a way cities function seamlessly with housing and infrastructure working together without a positive and negative attraction.

functions of a city working together

industry and housing share infrastructure


buildings and bridges

aquaducts

Historically there are examples of using in-frastructure for multi-ple purposes. Some ex-amples include housing on bridges, or restaurants on boats. In this case, Château de Chenonceau of France, explains the clev-erness of a building on a bridge.

Moving water created a type of infrastructure through a city. Infra-structure acts like a river through a city in the way it supplies food, people, supplies. Roads can begin to be designed like multi layered rivers supplying all necessities to a city.


Roads are concentric circle limits that radiate from Paris and serve as

percieved boundaries.

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Train lines spread lineraly from paris extending to neighboring

towns and cities.

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Towns begin to grow where the circulation routes cross and provide movement of people and products.

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Green corridors separate urban construction and serve as a

perceived limit.

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The circulation through the corridor needs to be programmed to meet the needs of

transportation while also maintaining the corridor.

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The existing ralis are dead veins that weave through the existing landscape. There is a

potential to re-program this space and provide multiple uses.

Lift the existing rail off the ground, allowing for area to insert new

program below.

Industry on below the rail allows for simple cargo loading, while the new rail above maintains the visual connection to the

corridor.

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two towns_ two functions

circulation disconnection

Fosses and Survilliers are adjacent towns that use the station RER D. Between the two is a large block of industry physically and visually disconnect-ing them. The road that connects the two towns is primarily for vehicles. It is necessary to stitch to-gether the two worlds over the boundary of the rail.

The primary fault of the site is the physical and visual disconnection from station to Survilliers. Due to the industry which rupture the programmatic connection between the two towns. The sole route that connects Survilliers and Fosses only promotes vehicles to enter and exit the station while lacking in pedestrian scale and function.

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The disconnection across the rail divides the balance

between Fosses and Survilliers

Indirect route for movement. The road only serves cars, lack

of pedestrian movement.

Station Analysis


programmatic disconnect

direct routes

Housing and commercial exist on both sides of the rail, but pedestrians are deterred from walk-ing or biking because of the dense car traffi c. These programs need to be stitched together across the rail.

There are a few routes leading to the station which should be taken into consideration for connect-ing over the rail. These circulation routes will help to promote inter-stitial activities along them, rehabilitating paths and roads which otherwise receive no attention.

Disconnect along the commercial spine between

towns.

Disconnect between residential neighborhoods. Lack of

sustainable transportation

Create routes that will support pedestrian traffic, connecting both sides of the train station.

New paths promote new urban typologies that create physical connections between towns.

New routes and bridges to generate a better connection between existing typologies.

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promoting paths

weaving agriculture

The existing paths through Fosses connecting pedes-trian traffi c to the sta-tion are used to strategi-cally place the vertical circulation towers of the Transit Center. The tow-ers help to spread out entrances down the rail and allow multiple access into the building. These selected paths will pro-mote movement and activ-ity which will reverberate back into the town.

Connecting agriculture back into the station was an idea expanding from the Eco Spine. The concept promotes urban-agriculture activities around the station, con-sequently benefi ting the market and the surround-ing housing developments and commercial businesses. The Transit Center itself includes parks and agri-culture testing areas as means for development of the Eco Spine, woven over the tracks.

Strategic paths activated by the vertical towers of the

Transit Center.

Stitching agriculture into the transit center.

Station Analysis


connecting commercial

housing over the rail

The Transit Center was specifi cally programmed to eliminate the discon-nect of commercial activ-ity from Fosses to Survil-liers. The design promotes a consistent line of pedestrian traffi c through the Transit Center.

Housing is connected through the Transit Center as a program woven over the tracks. The building is connected to the roof tops of existing industry east of the rail, which allows neighborhoods and gardens to exist above the industry. The concept con-nects existing housing of both Fosses and Survil-liers.

Weaving together commercial activities across the rail.

Connecting residential areas over the rail.

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The Transit Center was designed as a solution to stitch the gap over the rail, connecting Fos-ses and Survilliers. The center includes a train station, civic learning and research centers for students and residents, conference rooms for lo-cal businesses, apart-ments, restaurants, park space and research gardens for the Eco Spine. The program was conceived to weave from one side of the tracks to the other. Ac-tivities intersect in the middle over the tracks, allowing constant access to each fl oor and constant circulation throughout the building.

Each bar of program has been lifted, allowing ex-terior terraces for parks and research areas for the Eco Spine. Vertical cir-culation towers extend through each fl oor and pro-vide axis for the entire building. The facade and massing provide a dynamic and penetrable visual and physical experience.

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The building integrates the fundamentals of increasing density to eliminate growth. The program includes focuses on living, work-ing and playing in the same areas. A park was integrated into the transit center to combine travel with leisure. The building becomes a center for the market and several other public functions for Fosses.

“If you build the park they will come” -- but if they have to go to the sta-tion, why not put the park there?

functions co-exist as a community


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roof top connections begin to build a commu-nity above the existing

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vertical circulation acts as light wells to push light into the

buidling.

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