Trolly Addition

The most important form of transportation that will take part in this hub is the connection to the San Diego Trolley Line, expanding a line off from the Beyer Station, following the 5 freeway north to the 905 freeway east, making stops at Ocean View Hills Parkway, and another at Brown Field, before heading south to the proposed site, where the line would terminate. This would provide a much needed connection between airports and the trolley system, which is the 5th most traveled light rail system in the United States, as well as provide for future city expansion.

A new direction

The project for my thesis has changed due to a few factors, and is now going to be a transportation hub on a site just to the north of the existing Tijuana International Airport, with a pedestrian corridor to the TJ airport. I see this as a sort of in-between step towards a truly bi-national airport, one that does not have quite the heavy implications as a full-on bi-national airport.


The new site is a smaller piece of the old one from the previous project, taking up about a tenth of a square mile, the programming is similar, but pulled down to address a much smaller scale.

Adjacency Diagrams

Site and perimeter study

After overlaying a few airports of similar sizes over the proposed site for the new Tijuana/San Diego International airport, taking up 4.45 square miles of total land space, placing it somewhere between the Austin Airport and Portland Airport, which come in at 4.91 square miles and 3.5 square miles, and bigger than the smallest of the compared airports, seatac, with 2.88 square miles of space.

This space would include the Otay border crossing, as this would be improved and become the major feeder road in and out of the airport from the north side.

Typology Timeline

Critical/Thesis Statement

San Diego and Tijuana are two different sides of the same piece, a twin city separated by a political and social border. The construction of civic buildings, or other buildings that are used by the public would therefore be beneficial for both sides of a border. Beneficial in not only a monetary perspective, but from a social advancement and communication perspective. Such a project would increase the quality of communication between the two sides, and help to further progress the elements necessary in or to continue a healthy inter-border relationship.

The climate of the San Diego/Tijuana cosmopolitan area gives a unique opportunity in the use of outdoor or semi-covered space for a pedestrian concourse/waiting/commerce area, which is not available in other areas of the country which have more extreme weather conditions. A semi-outdoor pedestrian concourse and commerce area, when incorporated into an airport with favorable weather conditions, would vastly improve the experiences people perceive about airports.

programming

Urban

· Airport as City

o Sense of Place

o Mixed/Multi-use

o Foundation for service and served spaces

· Functions

o Commerce space

o Gathering Space

o Waiting Space

• Architecture
• 50% Green or unpaved space
• Creates a uncluttered, natural and non-stressful space for users to move between destinations.
• 20% Shopping/Commerce area
• 15% Restaurant/Cafe/Pub
• 10% Entertainment inc. playground space
• 5% Information areas, misc service spaces
• Restrooms
• Money Exchange
• Map services
• Flight Information
• Transportation Information
  

Green

· Energy Generation

o Photovoltaics

o Wind power generators

· Passive Heating/Cooling

o Solar Mass walls

o Shade created by landscaping

· Water Conservation

o Flush-less toilets

o Grey-water recycled for landscaping

o Living machine for black water and waste

FAA maps of airport spaces from comparative study

North is up in all examples


Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA)






















Portland International Airport (IATA: PDX, ICAO: KPDX, FAA LID: PDX)















San Diego International Airport (IATA: SAN, ICAO: KSAN, FAA LID: SAN)





















Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (IATA: SEA, ICAO: KSEA, FAA LID: SEA)