Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) | 2021-present

Program: Bus Shelter
Client: Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT)
Completed: In Progress
Location: Ithaca, NY
Role: Co-Lead of Interdisciplinary Design Team + CUSD E-board Member

Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) is working to realize a bus shelter made of environmentally responsible materials. For the last three years I have been co-leading an interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers, and designers to design this shelter. I helped create smaller sub-teams focused on addressing the multiple aspects of the shelter’s design, including form, materials, bench design, electrical systems, and assembly. In addition to leading the overall design team I also worked on designing and prototyping variants of a block-like module connected with dovetail joints, as well as creating a model of a possible bus shelter form.

A series of study models exploring the joinery of the bus shelter modules concluded in the selection of a triangular module with dovetail joints (bottom row) as one of two structural systems being explored.

This model explores a singly curving bus shelter form constructed of the triangular modules. A singly curving shape was chosen to allow for easier assembly and structural calculations while still maintaining a unique and eye-catching shape for a bus shelter.

Renders for video completed by Nate Jones, Jessica Kaiman, and Jebreel Bessiso