Architect: Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Client: Wake Technical Community College, Photographs: JWest Productions
Architect: Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Client: Wake Technical Community College, Photographs: JWest Productions
Completed in 2007, the bus shelter is a prototype design that has been initially constructed on the Main Campus of Wake Tech Community College. As the College’s enrollment grows and the subsequent demand for public transportation increases, this prototype will be located on all of the current and future campuses. The bus shelter received a 2008 AIA National Small Project Structures Award. The bus shelter is a simple yet refined architectural composition of two materially contrasting elements: a heavy cast in place concrete wall that serves as structure and as a bench, and a steel canopy frame, fabricated off-site, delivered by truck, and set into place. In elevation and section, the wall interlocks with the canopy forming a double ‘L’ composition. The canopy skin, in this case laminated polycarbonate, further expresses the lightness and translucency of the canopy.