Better Bus Stop

Bus Stop design challenge: Making public transport fun again

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Winner

1 Entry

Mai

The Bus Stop Gallery

Our proposal intends to provide the opportunity to incorporate artworks that displays local identity onto each bus “gallery”. In doing so, this piece of structure would not only become an identifying landmark for new visitors using transportation but also become part of the everyday narrative from local communities in promoting culture and identity.

Runner-up

1 Entry

Henry

HONG KONG POWER STOPS

SMALL-SCALE ENERGY GENERATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY. ADAPTABLE MODULAR DESIGN FOR PEOPLES‘ DAILY NEEDS AND VISUAL IDENTITY.

People's Choice Award

2 Entries

Ninad and 3 others

329

ASHRAY- an extension to Public Space

This is the Bus Stop proposal for the city of Pune in India. This project aims to understand needs of various local stakeholders pf Pashan-Sus Link road adjacent to a Bio diversity park, which impacts in heavy ridership by the Local bus service-PMPL. The project also tries to strike a balance between ideas of Sustainability and Smart City mission in India.

Sule and 3 others

333

Mud-Ular Bus Stop

The concept of this project has a strong relation to the use of sustainable materials in order to promote recycling and a lifestyle that will benefit the clean air that future generations need. The region the project pilot was planned on goes by the name Chandni Chowk in New Delhi, India.

Editor's Choice

11 Entries

Mahir and 2 others

BUSTLE

A bus stop is designated space, where passengers board and alight from vehicles. The main idea behind the project was to create a system where the need of the locality can be accommodated, while installing a stopover for public transit, that stands out amid the hustle and bustle of Dhaka city.

Xiao and zhiyu

Art Station

Our design integrates the art exhibition function into the bus station. For many artists: art students, new artists, etc., provide a place to display their works, and even sell their own works. On the other hand, for the citizens, they can feel art when they pass the bus station on the commuter road.

Vasanth

TIRAVAM

The project “ tiravam” is set in the city of Baroda consisting of different types of residential, commercial and mixed use neighbourhoods. The concept of designing the bus stop stemmed from the base idea of changing the perception of the people about the general ideas of bus stops.

Qianqin and 2 others

Site Frames

This prefabricated bus stop revealing the site spirit through customized materials, consists of a transparent frame system and an alternative fabric unit. It can offer spaces with different intimacy by rotating the vertical parts. As a special installation, this mobile bus stop also presents a certain meaning in praxiology and urban landscape ecology.

Philipp

ELEVATED OASIS

THE CONCEPT OF THIS BETTER BUSSTOP IS TO ADD EXTRA PUBLIC SPACE IN AN ECO-FRIENDLY WAY. THE ELEVATED OASIS FUNCTIONS BY ADDING AN EXTRA LAYER OF SOIL ABOVE THE CLT SLAB WHICH ENABLES PLANTS TO GROW. FURTHERMORE A GREENWALL UPLIFTS THE NEIGHBOORHOOD.

Antonio

MBS4E

MBS4E is a prototype of modular bus station composed of 6 different modules, each of which consists of 6 submodules. Every single piece provide for a specific service for the user. Assembly can be defined with no rules or can be choose between 4 pre-assembled solution that can fill any type of space: small, medium, large and extra large.

JUN HOI and hakseong

UPCYCLING BUS STOP

The bus stop to be formed was thought to be a place that could form the personalization of local issues, and I imagined that the behavior here would eventually change back to a local issue.

Öykü and 2 others

118

SECTIONS IN MODULES

Using sectioning as a design operation to create a modulor bus stop

Robert

Neon Revival

Bus is an essential means of public transport in Hong Kong. This project combines a fading aesthetic element and the cantilevered nature of buildings in the urban fabric to improve the lack of visibility and functionality of bus stops in urban districts.

Katerina

TRANSPORT GRID

Transport grid is a modular system for bus stop which aims to fit in the environment by using light, aerial, see-through materials. Reminding more of an art installation, the structure inspires and provokes the imagination of every citizen.

Antoni and 3 others

COLLECTING MOTION

Nowadays is Poland, public transport works on a schedule, but what will be the future? By “Collecting Motion” we wanted to make a bus stop a never ending science research spot and a place for collecting information.

Shortlisted

12 Entries

Tommaso

οὐ-τόπος

Desolate places, left usually to themselves but still a shelter for all those who wait for the next bus coming.

Zuzanna and Agnieszka

The Ribbon

This project presents the concept of a modular bus stop, the task of which is to adapt to different locations in the world, taking into account their individual character.

Yuan and 杼欣

LOGISTICS CITY

Logistics network based on BUS STATION in post epidemic Era

Simran

Floating Roofs: An Urban Insert

The bus stand has been designed with the concept of making it visually appealing with the underlying layers of comfort and accessibility in order to encourage more people to use public transportation rather than using their private vehicles. The structure has derived its form by biomimicking a tree tunnel.