Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation

This thesis uses a case study approach at the proposed Transit Hub for the City of Kitchener to focus on opportunities for a high quality public space/square to better integrate a new LRT line and a new GO/VIA rail station into the surrounding city. The conceptual framework of this thesis is to create a public space at Kitchener transit hub in order to transform the space into a new interface where people can experience a fulfilling urban life. This design proposal seeks to create an intimate relationship between public life, infrastructure and people. In addition, this proposal envisions a series of diagrams of the Edward T. Hall’s Proxemics strategy, a non-contact communication, to experiment with the adequacy of all the defined spaces.

Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation

Within the city of Kitchener, much has already been done to establish the presence of urban design at the human scale, to integrate contemporary ideas into the design of buildings, and to enhance historic natural retreats like Victoria Park. However, little has been done to integrate the expanded opportunities for new design of work and living opportunities in the city center with the proposal of a new intermodal transit hub in the heart of that growing downtown core.

The combination of both of those aspects will look at how to create a healthy, people-oriented public environment that will also transfer people from one mode of transit to another. With the surrounding new mixed-use developments and the heritage architecture of Kitchener’s industrial past, the case study demonstrates the typical situation facing most urban centres undertaking transit expansion in Ontario.

Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation
Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation
Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation

Thesis Title: Urban Design and Development of a Public Space

Name: Tahoora Alimohammadi

Supervisor: Val Rynnimeri, University of Waterloo

Committee Members:

Terri Boake, University of Waterloo

Reema Masri, Masri O Inc. Architects

Program: Urban Design

Location: Ontario

Thesis Year: 2015

University: University of Waterloo

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