"plug-in station"

a train station that provides the quarter it is situated in with not existent functions and helps to improve the social and city structural reality. a possible solution?

the 'L' as means of escape ?

visual depth:
the ever changing experience of the city from the l-track - a speed phenomenon!

different speeds create a different perception of the city. the size of the city comes into play!

how can this influence the city of the future?

the supermancity - a city that uses spaces and offers new ways of perceiving its uniqueness. we are not able to fly without technical help but our perception?

section through the city along the
CTA greenline.

what story does this track tell?

protocol of the meeting
on friday 02|02|01>

we have started to collect materials as well as to create a digital model of chicago.
while riding the 'l' we were confronted with one of the major problems of big american cities - the suburbanization and a belt of left open land around the downtown area which isolates the living areas from the working areas.

we thought about several solutions for this problem in which we could imagine to integrate the l as a tool of reurbanization. the 'l' closes the gap in terms of transportation but on the elevated tracks the destroyed inner suburb belt is more obvious than on the highways. maybe the 'L' can bring back the city!?

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