University of Virginia Library

Annual Class Project

Architects Design Future Transit Terminal

By LIBBY WITHERS

A transportation terminal
model, part of the Architecture
School's current project to
converge a number of transit
systems, has been submitted by
the third year design class.

The terminal is planned to
handle trains, buses, freight
and mall trucks, cars and a new
inter-community transit system,
called a dasheveyor.

The dasheveyor, recently
tested by the U.S. Department
of Transportation, consists of
small railroad cars operating
along concrete tracks.

This facility is designed to
provide a community of 100,000
with a united transportation
system that simultaneously
would not increase the city's
traffic Jams.

The terminal would ideally
serve a new community along
traffic corridors like Interstate
95 between Richmond and
Washington, D.C., according to
James S. Tuley, one of four
architectural design instructors.

This year's assignment is to
guide smoothly six modes of
transportation in and out of
the terminal area, with as few
obstacles as possible. The
competing activities are to be
housed in an adequately
structured, aesthetically
pleasing complex.

Fifty-five students are
involved in this project. They
were told only the variety and
amount of traffic which the
proposed terminal should
accommodate and its peak

periods. Individual scale
models, projections, and scale
models were exhibited by each
student.

The project is the first the
students have faced since
beginning their architectural
program two years ago. To
date, they have completed a
liberal arts curriculum which
included a course in basic
design and another
introductory course in
architectural design. A traffic
flow problem of this type
is posed each year.