"Shareway" presents a vision of transport infrastructure in 2030
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The Tri-panel systems proposes to replace roads with a variable smart surface that can rotate and change its material usage (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Passengers can transfer from the high speed rail links at nodes onto local transport routes (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
The project suggests a regeneration of de-industrialised zones within 'Boswash' into community food production ‘Farmshare’ centres, with circular fields located next to the ‘Shareway’ (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
‘Shareway’ is a concept that connects public and individual transport to a single artery (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Eric Höweler at the 2012 Audi Urban Future Award exhibition (Image: Audi Urban Future Initiative)
Höweler + Yoon ‘s design showcase at the 2012 Audi Urban Future Award exhibition (Image: Audi Urban Future Initiative)
J. Mejjin Yoon, Eric Höweler at the 2012 Audi Urban Future Award exhibition (Image: Audi Urban Future Initiative)
Award presentation by Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the AUDI AG (Image: Audi Urban Future Initiative)
The ‘Parahouse’ will be placed within the suburban landscape to provide a communal home that seemingly allows ‘Shareway’ travellers to view and connect with suburbia (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Within major cities, the proposal seeks to reclaim the road surface and ease congestion through use of a ‘Tri-panel’ system (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Beneath the proposed city tri-panel system is an expansion of what we see today: layers of urban utilities such as water pipes, subways and stations stretching underground (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
The ‘Shareway’ is proposed as a social space that not only provides optimal route planning and plots your carbon footprint, but also promotes group activities for users to participate in and move away from uni-modal and anonymous travel, and subsequently decrease the requirement for private transport ownership (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
‘Boswash’ design aims to create a new infrastructure that enables residents to conduct social and intelligent flows of traffic and networks, efficiently connecting suburbs and cities (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
The 'Boswash design proposes to re-utilise land adjacent to the I-95 for housing, energy famrs and retail space (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
A proposed ‘Sharestay’ scheme which provides timeshare based residences along the network accessed through the UI (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
'Boswash' hopes to reduce the average 611 short haul flights and their associated carbon footprint that are currently taken within the region daily (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
To reduce air traffic and scale the existing infrastructure to cater for super size planes and cargo ships, the ‘Shareway’ will link to the ‘Superhub’ which provides an appropriate size and expedient air and ship port (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Cities like New York will replace their roads with a variable smart surface, which operates like a revolving bill board, rotating and changing its material logic in order to sustain multiple use’s (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
The tri-panel system's three panels include a road surface, grassland and solar panels, which aim to create a variable city-scape that is self regulating (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Cities street-scapes will take on a new identity according to the active tri-panel (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Through a combination of physical infrastructure (hardware) and intelligent networks (software), Shareway makes travel effortless and reconfigures the structure of cities and suburbs (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Passengers can leave their high-speed rail journey close to their destination and utilize a fleet of cars powered by kinetic energy harnessed from the braking trains (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Höweler + Yoon describe ‘Boswash’ as encompassing 53 million residents living within the region that contributes a third of the US GDP (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
At the core of the transport network is a high-speed rail track on the top level with hubs or interchange points that switch passengers and cargo between local and national routes (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
The 'Shareway' levels below include: Freight and Commuter Rail lines, Shipping truck and public roads and finally bike and pedestrian pathways. (Image: Höweler+Yoon Architecture)
Article Summary
American-based studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture has developed an intriguing concept for modern urban infrastructure between Boston and Washington called "Boswash." Central to the design of this imagined mega-region is the firm's "Shareway" design – a bundled transport concept that seeks to redress the nightmare of the urban commute by connecting public and individual transport to a single artery along the 450 mile (724 km) route of the existing Interstate 95.
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