Subway Station Concept

The architectural intervention proposed occurs in the subway stations where parcels have reached their destination. While this proposal implements elevators for freight delivery using the TTC, this is also an opportunity to integrate accessibility on subway stations. Currently, Toronto is reconstructing to make all their stations accessible by 2025. This thesis proposes to include accessibility and infrastructure for parcel collection to alleviate both ‘last mile problems,’ and encourage ridership for all. Every subway station in Toronto is unique, and so this is a general concept for how parcel distribution and accessibility can be implemented.

Museum Station

The concept behind the redesign for Museum station is in its materiality and form. The structural concrete elevator core ‘acts’ as if it is pushing up the sidewalk from underground, bringing what would normally be underground activity to the street level. Using materiality of a heavy concrete roof against frameless glass walls to portray that the roof is held up by the elevator core. Locker wall systems are then integrated into the shelter to create spaces and movement of people.

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