| The subway station is one of the most important modern building types. Unlike an art gallery or shopping mall that people travel to, stations are places that people travel through. Movement of people, many in a hung is a characteristic of subway stations. As a result, the purpose in station design is usually expressed through an unambiguous elementary form. Can architecture provide more function to the subway station other than just a place for people to catch their trains? Can the subway station become shopping mall, meeting place? And most importantly how to use light torecreate the identity of the station and the orientation and connection between the underground and aboveground spaces?;"Light at the end of the tunnel" conducts an investigation of how to use subway stations to improve the environment of the existing underground city in the Toronto downtown area by looking at the issues such as: bring light down to the station, using light as the orientation element, bringing or intergrating different programs and activities from aboveground down into the station. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
