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Johanne Borthne M.Arch.
Transferium +
A transferium, or Park&Ride, is an out-of-city parking facility where drivers may switch to public transport and continue their journey into the city, a strategy developed with the purpose of dealing with severe inner-city traffic congestion. They are strategic points of transportation, located no further away than 15 min from the centre, with a maximum size of 1500 cars to ensure efficiency. These garages are usually considered “non-places”, as they are spaces for transit, not for staying. This diploma seeks to explore the further possibilities of a hub where highways, public transportation and people meet.Since the fall of communism, Russia, and Moscow as the premium example, has been catching up with the western lifestyle in a tremendous speed. The car serves as the uttermost symbol of the new and rapidly growing middleclass, thus ensuring that Moscow’s car fleet expands with 200 000 cars each year. As Moscow is about to choke in its own capitalist individualism, a strategy not seeking to eliminate or hide a so-called problem is developed.
In USA, especially between 1930 and 1960, the number of cars rose at a similar speed. The car, with accessories such as the highway, drive-in-anything and garages, was embraced and celebrated. This was later observed in Europe, and car-ownership was connected to the feeling of freedom, as well as a status of prosperous middle-class.
In Moscow a new middle-class has been increasingly visible since the fall of communism, with the growth of the car and the new third ring road as prime symbols. As was the case in USA when the car made its entry, the car can here be seen as a symbol of a new era. In the Soviet times every need was taken care of by the state. The new middle class in russia with its new economy and consumeristic way of living is increasingly depending on the automobile. The car represents not only a new lifestyle, but also the growth of personal freedom.
Based on an overall strategy, logging on to points where arterial roads meet public transportation, nine sites are identified based on common criterias. They are all connected to main arterial roads, they are all connected or inhabit the potential to connect to a metro station, they are within 15 min. reach from the central city and they all have enough space to carry a large program. One particular site - no. 2 Rizhskaya is chosen for further investigation.
Moscow’s car fleet has increased with 200 000 cars/year the last decade. This gives a number between 2 200 000 - 3 000 000, depending on the inclusion of commuters or not. By reducing this number by 5 % and dividing it between the 9 sites, the total number og parking spaces is between 10 000 - 16 000 / site. With the context of Moscow in mind, the symbolic effect of gathering 10-15 000 cars in one place becomes just as, if not even more important as the transit function. As the car serves as a symbol of the capitalist realism post- communist era, the Transferium + becomes a new “peoples palace”.
As a filter, yet also a destination, the Transferium + truly celebrates the car.
The parked cars are gathered in a mountain typology, where the parking is situated on the outside, as a facade (except from the motel), and other programs can inhabit the room inside. The mountains vary accordingly, as the sites and situations are different.
Johanne Borthne
johannebo@gmail.com
29.11.07
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