UC Berkeley, Advanced Urban Design studio, Spring 2020: Transit-oriented design sites
CP 248 Spring 2020
John Ellis studio instructor
A studio with a combination of graduate students from Architecture, Planning, Landscape and Real Estate Development and Design focused on transit-oriented development on four sites around the Bay.
San Rafael SMART Station and Golden Gate Transit bus transit center.
Larkspur Ferry Terminal and SMART station
El Cerrito del Norte BART station and bus transit center.
West Oakland BART station.
The students worked in teams to produce urban designs and consider economic strategies for mixed-use development. Phasing strategies and economic proformas were produced.
The studio occurred during the 2020 COVID lockdown and was achieved through both inplace teaching until March 16 and remote learning and video conferencing for the remaining 8 weeks.
Team 1: San Rafael site Plan showing transit-oriented development around the new SMART station. (Jonathan Winslow, Michael Johnson, Maggie Laush, Josie Morgan.)
Team 1: San Rafael site Axonometric showing proposed land uses around the relocated new transit center.
Team 1: San Rafael site Diagrams
Team 2: Larkspur Landing New mixed-use development and an extension of the SMART line to the ferry on the former ferry parking lot. (Christopher Cortes, Connor Grosskopf, Anisha Kimble, Travis Schneider.)
Team 3: El Cerrito del Norte BART station site (Dicko Ba, Ivana Rosas,Trista Hu, Alysia Vigil.)
Team 4: West Oakland BART station dsite (Logan Woodruff, Banke Abioye, Mohnish Narlanka.)
CP 248 Spring 2020 students