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Wittenberg, Gordon Colman, Scott Stevens, Sara Young, Brandon Douglas 2016-01-27T17:52:09Z 2016-01-27T17:52:09Z 2014-12 2014-10-14 December 2014 2016-01-27T17:52:09Z Young, Brandon Douglas. "Space Escalator." (2014) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/88184">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/88184</a>. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/88184 Monuments create common public spaces that contribute to the collective interest. Stations and terminals can become spatial monuments when they are organized around nodes of transport infrastructure and there is easy passage between them. Public transit facilities extend into cities when their hollow innards are transposed onto their external forms, and when the boundaries between their insides and outsides are porous. A transit system is as good as its touch between its regions and neighborhoods, and a transit hub is as good as its touch between its stations, its common space and its immediate vicinity. The Space Escalator is a multi-modal transit hub for Seattle, serving an existing rapid bus station (located under and above ground), an underground light rail, and a new gondola station. Its ambition is to create a Commons out of the gateway between these tubes of transit and the city they serve. application/pdf eng Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. Transit Terminal Space Escalator Thesis Text Architecture Architecture Rice University Masters Master of Architecture open.access