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ATRA envisions a
future when trans-
portation will all be
orchestrated for the
convenience of people
and their businesses
– as well as for the
benefit of our planet.
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Student Design Competition - New Vision for Student Districts Envisioning Student Districts for the 21st Century
Future Needs & Future Visions for Morgantown's Sunnyside Neighborhood
The Competition
The Advanced Transit Association (ATRA) in collaboration with
West Virginia University (WVU) announces an urban design competition for university students aspiring to careers as architects, landscape architects, urban designers, urban planners, and civil engineers. An ATRA-WVU jury will judge submissions. A prize of $300 is offered for the best submission. Two prizes of $100 are also available.
Submissions Due June 15, 2009
Jury Decision April 2, 2009
The Problem
Downtown Morgantown WV seeks to improve connectivity and multimodal
transportation opportunities, specifically at the downtown
Walnut Street Station of West Virginia University’s Personal Rapid
Transit (PRT). The city is promoting the integration of a new public
space with the existing terminal and a stronger connection between
High Street (downtown’s main commercial street) and the riverfront.
Two existing structures on the site will be demolished in 2009. This
creates a fresh and exciting opportunity to improve downtown
Morgantown. This student design competition project strives to
resolve existing lack of connectivity, dangerous and problematic
intersections, and steep grades in order to develop a connection
between the PRT station, pedestrian corridors and multi-use paths
along the Monogahela River.
The site is bordered to the northwest by heavily traveled Highway
119/19. To the northeast is Walnut Street -- a busy one-way arterial
through downtown. This street intersects 119/19 and leads to the
nearby access to the river trail. To the southeast is Chestnut Street
with pedestrian access to the downtown WVU campus and High
Street. To the southwest, the site is bordered by a narrow alley used
predominantly by pedestrians but including one way vehicular traffic.
At the time of its construction in the 1970s, the PRT was seen as a
bold venture to inspire a better future by bringing aerospace expertise
to urban transport. Many transport experts recognize that the
Morgantown PRT is the most advanced transit service in the world. Its
service today is well used and impressively safe, but like all assets,
it needs repairs and improvements to be better integrated with
other modes of transportation and with visions of a more sustainable
downtown for all people of Greater Morgantown.
Interested students will submit a 24”x36”
poster-sized concept plan, with three
supporting graphics, and a written
program and concept statement of 300
words maximum. The poster should be
submitted as a digital PDF and printed for
an exhibition.
For more information...
Call Larry Fabian, ATRA Events Coordinator,
at (617) 825-2318
For details about the problem and available
maps, please contact WVU Landscape
Architecture faculty members:
Claudia.Bernasconi@mail.wvu.edu or
Peter.Butler@mail.wvu.edu
Flier advertising the competition and award (PDF)
Map of area
DOCUMENT# 2103
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