5/16/2012

DCMP Airport Station

I think MWAA nailed it on the architecture for the station at the airport. Being the Harry Weese purest that I am when it come to metrorail station architecture, this is a really good exception to that rule.

Ripped these from Refined Locally Preferred Alternative Section 106 Determination of Effects Report: Historic Architecture (3.03 MB PDF file).

The rest of the documents can be had at Project Resources Phase II.

Originally published 05 16 2012

Looking northeast across Saarinen Circle. Looking northwest across Saarinen Circle. Platform looking west.
3D section at pedestrian tunnel
The station will also have 4 elevators, instead of the now standard 2 and 4 escalators between the mezzanine and the platform, no stairs.
View metrorail station and main terminal looking east.
Dulles Airport aerial alignment. Site Plan Mezzanine plan.

Column location option 1 Column location option 2, option to be built.

Approach renderings, column location option 2:

Rendering view map. View approach 1. View approach 2.
View approach 3. View approach 4. View approach 5.
View approach 6. View approach 7. View approach 8.

Pictures at picasaweb.google.com/cambronj DCMP Miscellaneous

2 comments:

  1. It is nice but I can't believe they can't bring it a little closer and run it through the middle of the short term parking lot.

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  2. One of the reason why the station is adjacent to the garage has to do with the fact that the Eero Saarinen designed main terminal at Washington Dulles Airport International Airport is on the National Register of Historic Places.

    Building an elevated station in the short term parking lot would effect to overall appearance of the main terminal.

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