Bus Stop Prototype

Proposals are requested for a prototype to be placed in rural and/or extra-urban contexts. The opportunity of incorporating it to urban contexts depends on agreements with private management companies. Hence, proponents should emphasize the capacity of the prototypes for diverse locations, and not their on site-specificity.

Artifice, artifact, art, actually... The bus stop becomes a pretext for creating a shaded setting that simultaneously claims a natural element (color) and artificiality (its materiality), by assuming the form of a grove that doubles as a place to wait for the bus. Thus, the way is open for questioning the artifact and its relationship to the landscape it occupies.

Blob consists of three systems: the tree-top (roof), the trunks (supports) and the roots (seats). The tree-top, shaped by the intersection of five distorted spheres, turns into a uniform mass of green fiberglass with a shiny, plastic look resembling the luster of tree leaves in the tropics. The trunks and the roots, made of aluminum and concrete, bear the mass and emphasize the spatial diversity of the stop. The presence of different relations of scale is achieved by means of the height of the seats and their proximity to the thick foliage.