Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The Rubey Park Transit Center in the heart of Aspen serves the City of Aspen and increasing ridership for the Roaring Fork Transit Agency (RFTA). The new vision incorporates a former structure and expands its program to include enlarged pedestrian waiting areas, improvements to the public restrooms, adds new staff lounge, offices and ticket booth with significant landscape and civil engineering improvements. The three distinct volumes are united with an extended roof canopy composed of exposed wood purlins, fritted glass and zinc that supports the large solar array providing the majority of its energy requirements. The building materials are brick, zinc, metal windows/doors with the public benches, bike storage, event information stands and ‘living’ walls adding scale to its active street façade.