Dustin White | Visiting Assistant Professor College of Architecture | Texas Tech University

DALLAS | TOLL BOOTH STATEMENT PROJECT ONE

ARCH 3501 : Architecture Design Studio 4 _ Fall 2011

BRIEF |

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest in the South and the fourth largest in the US. In the Past 10 years this area has had a rapid growth in population of about one million people, and a total metroplex population of over six million.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is seeing this recent boom of population is also had a boom of interesting architecture occur. Projects from REX + OMA, Foster + Partners, Allied Works, Morphosis, and also some great existing works by IM Pei, Phillip Johnson, Louis Kahn, and Richard Meir. Wich we will be visiting during our architour of the metroplex later in the semester.

What |

The first project we will investigate in this studio is a Toll Booth Station on the George Bush Turnpike near downtown Dallas Texas. A building and network infrastructure that serves a public function. As urban architects we must constantly rethink the usual construction and design parameters if they are to improve the daily experience of the public user.

As much as the urban experience is determined by grand tributes to art, culture and government, it is the smaller, utilitarian structures that can provide the most unexpected impressions on people. This small scale architecture is not so much about unusual or experiment , but rather about necessity. The architectural objects that make a city function and that a large portion of the population interact with, in some ways help to determine, the character of cities around the world. The appeal of a transportation system for example, affects commuters and tourists just as much as its efficiency.

The Toll Booth will seek to create a new attitude for travel around the city. It’s mission is to promote an efficient transition and stream-lining of the toll payment and exchange process. An opportunity arises to create a highly functional proposal in which examines a series of intense site conditions and design parameters. You will be examin-ing the vehicle itself and how it transitions through the changing of lanes. How it circulates through the Booths. How you control speed and density . How you create a structural system which is able to span the length of the 18 lane section of the turnpike. Also how you will respond to contextual and site conditions in the design process that creates a scheme that has the ability to be placed along any section of the George Bush Turnpike.

SITE |

The project site take place on the President George Bush turnpike, near Carrollton, Texas, in a semi remote area. The Booth location is situ-ated amongst a natural setting with adjacent water and vegetated area. The Booths themselves along the Turnpike are ubiquitous in nature and are repetitive in their design. The goal is to accommodate and create a highly functional proposal, which deals with a potentially complex and interesting site condition. The initial site features an expansion of a 6 lane highway to section of 18 lanes at the intersection of the Toll Booth location.

DALLAS | TOLL BOOTH

PROGRAM |

MAN OPERATED TOLL BOOTH :

A Toll Booth is a man operated both, kiosk or small enclosure, where an operator excepts payment for drivers to access a particular highway. Although there are variations of the payment systems, one system you will incorporate is a man operated booth. It is important that you understand how this typology of booth operates, in that it involves people and an exchange of funds and a receipt. This creates an interesting condition in the flow of traffic where on one hand you have drivers which are slowed to a stop for this exchange, and drivers who are jetting through the toll because of automatic payment.

Listed below are the requirements for a single one man operated booth.

| 42” x 72” exterior dimension with and interior ceiling height of 84” minimum.

| 36” Access door

| 18” sliding glass window. The window must be 48” from the ground and be accessible to the driver.

| 16” Counter for Operator

| There are three different typologies of for users when they access the toll. (1) Au-tomated Toll Tag (2) Zip Cash (3) Man Operated Booth. How you distribute these typolo-gies amongst the 18 lanes is up to your analysis, and how you can achieve the maximum efficiency for the Toll Station.

| 4 Man Operated Booths | 6 Zip Cash | 8 Toll Tag

OFFICES :

To facilitate the needs of the Toll Booths it is necessary to provide spaces that pro-vide services to the public and its employees. These are spaces where managing of tags and employees takes place. It is open as to how and where these spaces are distributed throughout the site, but they must respond to the circulation and sequence that you are establishing with the site, offices, toll booths, and parking.

| 2 Offices _ 120 sqft x2 = 240sqft

| 1 Employee Break Room _ 150 sqft

| 1 Toilet (unisex) _ 75 sqft.

| 1 Storage_Mechanical Room _ 50sqft

| 15% Ancillary or Circulation Space

Total Office Space - 590-600 sqft.

LANES AND SPAN OF ROOF STRUCTURE :

The George Bush Toll way expands to 18 lanes when approaching the Booth and then condenses on both sides to 6 lanes. The lanes are divided into 3 lanes separated by a natural condition medium. The Toll Booth should have a minimum height clearance of 16’ and a maximum clearance of 20’. Take not all of the signage elements that attach themselves to the structure.

DALLAS | TOLL BOOTH

ARCH 3501 : Architecture Design Studio 4 _ Fall 2011

PARKING :

The Toll Booth must also include 6 parking spaces for employee. Parking should not be something that is added on, but more important it should be designed and integrated into the overall scheme of the design. Park-ing should also consider how the user is able to enter and exit along the George Bush Toll way.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTAL _

Will be defined by the instructor according to the assignments given out during the process of the project.

As stated in the syllabus precision drawings, sections, sectional dia-grams, perspective drawings/renderings, and a series of small models will be required. A process that goes from analog to digital, and “vice versa”, will be highly encouraged. The work accumulates step by step, it is incremental, and in progression.

FINAL Requirements ;

| Narrative Statement

| Diagrams (site_structure_concept)

| Site Plan

| Floor Plan

| Axonometric | Section Perspective

| Traditional Section

| Details_structure (2)

| Perspective Views (2-3)

| Physical Model

*Note | scale of drawings will be defined by the instructor previous to their due date.

*Note | Final Presentation Guidelines will be provided prior to the project’s due date.

Dates |

Assigned | Friday, September 9th

Due | Thursday October 6th

Mid Term Review | Wednesday October 12th

*Note | All work will be do by Thursday by 9 pm. You will have 1-2 days prior to the Mid Term review to make any final corrections.

* Late Work is not accepted and will result a failing grade.* Dates are subject to change with notification by the instructor.

Links :

Dallas Website:

http://www.dallascityhall.com/

North Texas Tollway Authority:

http://www.ntta.org/

Texas Department of Transportation:

http://www.txdot.gov/

George Bush Turnpike :

http://www.texasfreeway.com/dallas/photos/190/190.shtml

http://www.ntta.org/AboutUs/Road-ways/PresidentGeorgeBushTurnpike.htm

Toll Rates:

http://www.ntta.org/AboutUs/Toll-Rates/

*Other links and information will be provided on the course blog through-out the project.

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Dustin White | Visiting Assistant Professor

EXERCISE | 01 TOOL BOOTH

ARCH 3501 : Architecture Design Studio 4 _ Fall 2011

“Stations and paths together form a system. Points and lines, beings and rela-tions. What is interesting might be the construction of the system, the number and disposition of stations and paths. Or it might be the flow of messages passing through the lines. In other words, a complex system can be formally described… One might have sought the formation and distribution of the lines, paths, and stations, their borders, edges and forms. But one must write as well of the interceptions, of the accidents in the flow along the way between stations… That passes may be a message but parasites (static) prevent it from being heard, and sometimes, from being sent.”

-Michael Serres’s

SITE PLAN | 1:30

Draw ALL information, trees, green spaces, highway markings, and anything else worthy of identification. Experiment with tones (grey scale) and textures to delineate various surface qualities. For Example the water can be shown as a light grey fill or light blue fill All drawings should be within a grey scale, if color is used it should be very limited. Proper line weights and types should be used, and no solid fills with exception of buildings, only differ-ent line weight and types that denote various conditions. No line stroke to exceed 1pt shall be used. You may work in Rhino or CAD, use Illustrator for post production ONLY. You should have a dense field of information, with clear labels no larger then 10 pt. font.

Use the coordinates given on the map to locate the site. Draw an area within the limits of the provide aerial map.

Research | Images

Google Street View Images of the existing site condition and existing toll booth.

Research and print information in regards to the George Bush Turnpike.

Research and print images of and examples of existing Toll Booths, toll both signage and street markings. This should be treated as an inventory.

Research methods of payment and toll both protocols for user accessibility.

Research any other information that you come across. Can be videos, images, text, etc,,

NOTES |

* Do not trace your Plans in Illustrator, this is not the proper use of the tool. Illustrator is a post production tool only.

* Includes : Curb Lines, Building outlines, Labeled Site and Major Streets, Drawing Scale, North Arrow, Line Weights : Nothing over 1 point _ Nothing under .15 point _ Grey scale lines where required.

*High level craft and precision is expected and should be taken very seriously. Poor constructions and lack of detail is unacceptable and will greatly reduce your grade.

DUE |

Monday, September 12 | 1:00 PM | Pinned up

BARAJAS AIRPORT | RICHARD ROGERS

PRESENTATION |

Print the site plan on proper sheet size at 1:30 scale

Images should be printed on 8.5x11 paper. Can have 2 images per page.

All other text and information can be printed on 8.5x11