My mobility project
For this year our project was based on mobility. I choose to do a project with the Tesla charging stations. I had to make a building for the tesla charging stations. AT first I thought " okay, I can make a charging station that is big but can also attract attention to something. I like building that have a really cool type of shape to it. So I would like to make the roof more of an interesting kind of view. For the design I wanted to make a building that is a lot of glass but not all of it because of the weather conditions in Austin. There is also a separate building to let the cars charge.
We started this project doing plans and how there are roads to the places around the city, what attraction there were, and what were the main places that there was. so we had maps and we had to mark all of that down, from the main paths in the drawing to the minor paths. There is a picture in there with a Texas map. the purple lines are the roads that go all around Texas. the purple dots are the cities in Texas. There are also black lines, those are the roads that I wanted to use so put the tesla charging stations.
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This is the building that I would like to put the cars in while they charge. I would like to know that my car is same from danger and no one is going to break into it. So this is a design meant to have elevators take your car at any parking space in the building with a click of a button on your phone. You receive a code on the tesla app, that is to be imputed to the computer. When you put that code in the computer it know which car is yours and it brings it back to you. The good thing about my building is that there is a restaurant on the top of the building that you can go to. There is an elevator that will take you to the top of the building.
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In this building I want to make it a first floor kind of building since most of the buildings around it are kind of short. I started this building make it a box, even thought I didn't like it, I still tried to figure out how I wanted it to look like. This building is designed for people that own a tesla and are on a road trip or traveling. Its a place so they can rest and take a break from driving because it can always be a pain. There are two places in the building, for women and for men. they are like really big restrooms but they have showers inside of them, they have sleeping pods, really big wall with mirrors, so they can get ready for the day, and they have bathroom stalls. The men's side is the same thing expect for the really big mirror wall. There is also a dinning are outside to eat, or have drinks.
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This is my last design, in the design I wanted to make a design where its also focused on the roof but there's more of an opened side to it. and there is a lot of windows to let natural sunlight inside. there is a pathway to cross from the main building to the charging garage on the side of the building. They go there and park, let their cars charge and while they wait, they can either go explore around or stay in the building. It will have the same functions as the second building except for the outdoor siting.
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