This is a proposal for a new train station for an existing stop, on a new transit square at the center of a transit-oriented development. The immediate site is off one corner of the square, on a small 10,000 square foot plaza between mixed-use buildings. The site is approached from four oblique angles and will be seen from as much as a thousand feet away.

The modest two thousand square foot program which has only a five hundred square foot waiting room as its only true public space, needs to have the presence of a civic structure among larger buildings around the square. We studied alternates spanning the adjacent buildings and parallel to the tracks, and at the specific request of the town, studied one alternate that extended out toward the square so that it could be seen better from the NE and NW. The scale of every element of the building was increased to help its reading from a distance.

A second phase will require a bridge over the tracks when a second track is built. The stairs, elevator towers, bridge and four hundred foot platform canopies could give the final design of the station the scale and public program that the first phase affords only with effort. From the two south approaches, these elements will be as prominent as the station itself. We have used the stairs, elevators and bridge to make a gate at the scale of the tracks. The piers of the platform canopy form a long colonnade that divides the wide combined right of way of the tracks into spaces of reasonable human scale.