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Brighter below

A subway entrance you discover like a maze. The ground folds up into a roof, then a wall, and peeling the layers apart makes narrow bright spaces and wide dark ones. Above ground it barely shows. Below, it opens up, and only the bright spaces lead to the platforms.

Core I, Fall 2017. Critic: Tei Carpenter

Street elevation: the entrance barely rises above the sidewalk
Site plan
Plan
Cross section
Long section with a view of the space inside
Second section with a view of the space inside

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