Academic Works
Hyperloop Edinburgh

The Northern Arc is envisioned as a near instantaneous transport system utilizing Hyperloop to link the Scottish central belt with northern English cities. Effectively reducing the geographical distance between city centers, it transforms the Northern region of the British isle into a single, uniting territorial entity. The project examines the tectonics of station design which informs the various structural relationships between components, buildings, urban city and territory. As the urban centralities of cities dissolved into a larger metropolitan body, the hyperloop system reconfigures existing relationships between larger cities and smaller, rural towns. Cities are not isolated manifestations or universally replicated expressions of the urban condition, but are embedded within wider, territorially uneven and restlessly evolving processes of urbanization occurring in a range of scales, encompassing both built and unbuilt spaces, across varying topographies. The project proposes a radical reimagining of urban centralities, focusing on the implementation of an ultra-high-speed transportation network such as Hyperloop. We deal with a new set of constraints unique to Hyperloop as we design a station that is able to deal with high commuter numbers and a different way of boarding and offboard-ing of Hyperloop 'pods' while simultaneously integrating it with the existing rail connections of Waverly station beneath - transforming the entire site into one integrated transport hub.