This past September, we participated in a multidisciplinary design sprint named Build Earth Live to plan a series of hyperloop stations for the United Arab Emirates. Drawing from our earlier work on the Hyperloop station typology, we collaborated with HyperPoland, one of the teams we met at SpaceX’s Hyperloop Design Weekend last year. Working with team…

We participated in SpaceX’s Hyperloop Design Weekend, held at Texas A&M University on January 29-30, 2016. As a selected finalist, we designed a prototype for a Hyperloop station. The ideas we presented during the weekend have appeared in podcasts and published in multiple articles. Our previous blog post described our underlying hypothesis that Hyperloop stations should…

We participated in SpaceX’s Hyperloop Design Weekend, which was held at Texas A&M University on January 29-30, 2016. As a selected finalist, we developed a prototype design for a Hyperloop station. We shared the design with over 180 teams who traveled from over 20 countries. Our hypothesis is that the ideal Hyperloop station should be…

The best way to see a true cross-section of Chicago’s socio-economic structure is from the CTA Green Line, which bisects the city from its westernmost edge to its central core. Ride the train from Harlem/Lake to Ashland/63rd Street, and you’ll pass bungalows, townhouses, currency exchanges, active and abandoned industrial parks, landscape suppliers, doggy daycares, nightclubs,…