We are designing a Bus Rapid Transit for 35th & Archer in Chicago. We are hoping to accomplish a faster more efficient form of public transportation. The difference between a BRT shelter and a regular bus shelter is that the BRT will be placed in the middle of the street to allow two buses to arrive at the same time on opposite sides. Another difference is that the BRT is much larger and has transmit machines to add money to your card. Also, you'll be paying to ride the bus there in the BRT shelter which will make the flow better, faster, and more efficient.
Lily Jimenez's work for the Collect Information step:
Summary
Who will use the metro BRT shelter?
We like the idea that there's two bus shelters, one on either side, and the street for the bus...
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What brought our attention to this one was the bridge system. It reminded us of the train station...
This is an idea of how the bus shelter could be designed. It's nice and simple. We like the...
We like that this is only one bus shelter in the center, for both passengers on either side to use...
The flaw of only havig one BRT shelter in the center is transporting this many people to the...
Lily Jimenez's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:
Summary
We brainstormed ideas by doing a couple of sketches of how we want our BRT to look and to show where we want to place it.
This is one sketch that I have done. The idea is very simple. The plan is to have a green roof and...
This is another sketch I've done. In this one the BRT shelter is much smaller but the roof has...
This is another sketch I have done and in this sketch I decided to add a garden to the space. This...
This is an idea of where our BRT is going to be placed. This is looking at it from a bird's...
This is another idea from a bird's eye view. Here we only have one BRT and it focuses more on...
This is the location we will be using to place our BRT shelters. The street is 35th & Archer.
Lily Jimenez's work for the Develop Solutions step:
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We have developed solutions by trying different design ideas. We've tried to tie in both of our designs along with our inspirations to create the BRT.
This is an idea of how it could look. The open middle areas are the entrances and the sides would...
This is the shape that we want our BRT to be. The sides will have doors so people could board the...
This is one design that we have created. This is still incomplete. We still need to add doors and...
This is another view of how the doors are going to look. I still have no yet added the doors on the...
Lily Jimenez's work for the Final Design step:
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Our final design is the exact same design that was shown on developing solutions. We have added the side that was missing in our BRT as well as added everything that is needed inside of the BRT.
This is a rendering of our final design with the doors added to the missing side. Here you see that...
This is an image of our final design. In this view you could see the entrance as well as the exit....
This is another view of our final design. Here you could see the doors to board the train.
In this image you could see that we have added a bus and it looks as if the bus is arriving and...
This is the actual site of our BRT. In this picture you can view the surroundings and where the BRT...