Terminal project: intermodal passenger terminal for San Antonio, Texas uncertain ground

Abstract

The site acquired by the city is 14 acres of industrial rail corridor where nothing is developing or growing except for the weeds. The proposal for a new transportation terminal on such a site led to a hyper-real investigation of architecture among the blooming ruins typical of the contemporary city. Avoiding the assertion of form , rather intervening provisionally to provide a new public surface is presented. The architecture is modest in effort to unearth new territory in the construction of the city.