1) What is the project?Quoted from the competition flyer
"Gas stations have always been part of American car culture by providing fuel, maintenance, service, directions for lost drivers, restrooms, food, and convenience store items. This relationship between the automobile and the gas station is about to change as new fuel options including electricity, hydrogen, and biofuels come to market. These new fuel options will transform the gas station into a "refueling station." These refueling stations have the opportunity to look and operate in a way that is vastly different from the current gas stations, both on the outside at the pumps as well as inside the convenience store. RDI invites you to develop a new concept that will address these changes and create a new store concept that will provide a better experience for the customers, be friendlier to the environment, and redefine how we view the gas station."
2) Who does it affect?
The gas guzzling citizens of the United States are the primary audience but perhaps we can extend the scope to everyone on the planet. More specifically, the site(s) will be strategically picked in Greensboro, North Carolina (my hometown!). The stratagem will be created through a program analysis.
3) Why is it necessary? What is the significance of this project?
We've made our mistakes as a country. We've allowed corporations and similar entities (U.S. government, American car industry) to control our appetites for oil for too long. We certainly can't place all of the blame on them either, we have to accept responsibility for our daily lives and actions as well. We must change, evolve our way of life in order to survive. With a new president that believes the U.S. can be petroleum free, whom has taken the initiative to fund various projects and give incentives to those who want to make the U.S. a greener, more sustainable country, it will be necessary to provide the infrastructure for this tsunami that cannot and will not be stopped. This refueling station will be a huge part of this infrastructure, just as gas stations today are vital to our ability to travel.
4) What will your design response entail? What do you intend to do?
I will be addressing the criteria listed in the answer to question #1. I will also attempt to simultaneously develop a business model for the refueling station through the design process. Before I am able to start the design process though, a rigorous programming analysis will have to be conducted in order to achieve optimal design. This analysis is still yet to be finalized but it will involve researching the following information:
*note* each major area will include statistical data in the form of graphs and diagrams associated with the research in order to facilitate the scientific part of the design process
*gas station's historical context and development
*oil crisis in the 1970's and its effects on the public
*development of alternative fuel (ethanol, algae, etc)
*development of alternative vehicular travel (hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells, electric, etc)
*existing alternative fuel infrastructure (what around that is similar or can be incorporated?)
*existing gas stations through the acquisition of plans from the city of Greensboro (this will help to establish a traditional program that can be manipulated into the refueling station of the future)
*potential use of GIS software to aid in spatial analysis
If someone killed the electric car, then its rising from the dead and so are some of its buddies...
"Gas stations have always been part of American car culture by providing fuel, maintenance, service, directions for lost drivers, restrooms, food, and convenience store items. This relationship between the automobile and the gas station is about to change as new fuel options including electricity, hydrogen, and biofuels come to market. These new fuel options will transform the gas station into a "refueling station." These refueling stations have the opportunity to look and operate in a way that is vastly different from the current gas stations, both on the outside at the pumps as well as inside the convenience store. RDI invites you to develop a new concept that will address these changes and create a new store concept that will provide a better experience for the customers, be friendlier to the environment, and redefine how we view the gas station."
2) Who does it affect?
The gas guzzling citizens of the United States are the primary audience but perhaps we can extend the scope to everyone on the planet. More specifically, the site(s) will be strategically picked in Greensboro, North Carolina (my hometown!). The stratagem will be created through a program analysis.
3) Why is it necessary? What is the significance of this project?
We've made our mistakes as a country. We've allowed corporations and similar entities (U.S. government, American car industry) to control our appetites for oil for too long. We certainly can't place all of the blame on them either, we have to accept responsibility for our daily lives and actions as well. We must change, evolve our way of life in order to survive. With a new president that believes the U.S. can be petroleum free, whom has taken the initiative to fund various projects and give incentives to those who want to make the U.S. a greener, more sustainable country, it will be necessary to provide the infrastructure for this tsunami that cannot and will not be stopped. This refueling station will be a huge part of this infrastructure, just as gas stations today are vital to our ability to travel.
4) What will your design response entail? What do you intend to do?
I will be addressing the criteria listed in the answer to question #1. I will also attempt to simultaneously develop a business model for the refueling station through the design process. Before I am able to start the design process though, a rigorous programming analysis will have to be conducted in order to achieve optimal design. This analysis is still yet to be finalized but it will involve researching the following information:
*note* each major area will include statistical data in the form of graphs and diagrams associated with the research in order to facilitate the scientific part of the design process
*gas station's historical context and development
*oil crisis in the 1970's and its effects on the public
*development of alternative fuel (ethanol, algae, etc)
*development of alternative vehicular travel (hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells, electric, etc)
*existing alternative fuel infrastructure (what around that is similar or can be incorporated?)
*existing gas stations through the acquisition of plans from the city of Greensboro (this will help to establish a traditional program that can be manipulated into the refueling station of the future)
*potential use of GIS software to aid in spatial analysis
If someone killed the electric car, then its rising from the dead and so are some of its buddies...
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