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Voyage

Cristina Collise

The Hyperloop Voyage campus takes cues from cyberpunk and brutalist architecture with strong heavy forms that seamlessly strut along the landscape and sit heavily on the site. The symbolism of power and technology are present in its heavy monolithic form, straight lines, and modular elements that are used to form masses representing specific functional zones, grouped into a unified whole.

 

In this project, program is divided into three units based on the level of privacy needed. The first unit on the left is semi-private, making room for the staff recreation, offices, and classrooms. The second unit is private, housing all of the laboratories for work on the Hyperloop. Though the unit is private compared to the others, the open concept encourages interconnectivity and the exchanging of ideas. The third unit is public, containing the theater, restaurant, gallery, and reception area. Here, visitors stop by and learn about the science behind the innovation of the Hyperloop right outside. The Hyperloop itself though is a new way to travel, to get to your destination and link cities that otherwise would require long hours of travel, so just like those cities, each unit is connected to another through these diagonal connectors reserved exclusively for circulation.

 

Although majorly solid, negative space is derived through the lifting of the laboratories allowing safe passage underneath the hyperloop track and therefore creating a central courtyard. While the building is linear and continuous in terms of its horizontality, the central program being elevated from the ground allows for a flow of external circulation beneath. The landscape takes on the characteristics of a circuit board. It is broken up into pathways, blue gathering spaces, soft turf and planters; each being signified with a color and/or material change. Although these are clearly structured, the desert landscape penetrates through the central space to disjoint the man-made territory.

 

The water sculptures are reminders of this machine artifact in the middle of a natural landscape piece. It asserts this man-made power in the middle of the desert. They symbolize the monumentalizing of technology, and are parts to the whole project that is, in itself, a monument to the Hyperloop and scientific advancements.

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