 the show here on pink take a while in broadcasting live from our cost of politics in coastal city of on a little white and i have my body to sort of round back with the high to solo hello martin and i think we should tell everybody that you're talking to from germany and i'm speaking from a little because we are separated on the other side of the earth and will wear that and on top of that we're like everyone because we're now having march of two thousand and twenty well quarantined or at least isolated from each other yes socially distanced as one likes to say because of the corona challenge yes and uh... this is in many ways probably also therapeutic is everything is that people still doing these days and this is the uh... force of uh... so far three shows about uh... being hopeful that uh... in about a year we have everything back under control and can uh... the social gather again and i want to take you to solo and everyone else who got interested through these uh... special edition shows who actually come with me to germany and experience how things are different there but also certain things that we can sort of take home back to a white and if we can get the first picture up here while in the past we have actually been talking about the bill environment and how climate informs the culture of it and actually uh... the bill environment is the one that has the most impact and responsibility on the environment and also global warming and all the other issues were wrestling with and uh... so here is is that's again you know how we grew up we both had a taste of the cold which i by the way have again it's up to zero here so i know you won't be jealous of that though i am not i'm happy i'm here but but and uh... but today we want to talk about actually the second largest impact on the environment which is not the bill environment but the way we move so transportation is number two as far as a global emissions and and and global uh... you know challenges and so whenever we're not at home which we have to be now how do we go to other places and unfortunately a little bit now a single transportation is increasing uh... because that's the only way we can socially distance each other and go to other places and buy food and things which we have talked about but i'm at the very these days essential apology so if we look at the very right pictures we see at the very top that not only the grass but also the bug of rena on the other side and because you have been interested in my culture and body to the vehicle and we have this yet the w-b-b-b and they were green or turquoise and you hit the title page of the local our advertiser by flipping over and lucky me not hurting yourself and maybe maybe americano kids basically they don't want to wait to get it big american boat there's my family to blend the theory that i have to get myself when i was a student in the u.s and uh... uh... before that and you see at the very bottom right this is in front of which we had introduced to the audience which has impacted me deeply how i grew up that was a ninety six steps no elevator walk up that i have to walk up and down and i could actually get to everything by walking in all honesty we had cars and you see here uh... me and my sister and my mother in front of actually two cars uh... whenever there was a job i thought of being an architect uh... you know we lived it up and we happens mercedes to the left and a little uh... out of yonki on the on the right side and the mercedes you know much of never sort of uh... left me ever since because uh... one of our p-i-ing cars uh... for the shows that we used to drive around occasionally is not with you the solo country and that's shown in the little picture in the middle of the leg and so i'm taking care of your mercedes while you are in germany thank you very much and you said it fit nicely in because it traces back to family history uh... similar mercedes haven't been in that parking garage and surf your family all is one total piece of artwork thank you so let's jump to this typology next slide here uh... because because transportation before it became individual obvious is a little bit one can say you catch myself being a little hypocrite because on the one side i love cars as you love cars is almost everyone that part on the other hand we know that it's not the most responsible thing i go as far when i get grumpy that i'd say the two worst things that you will correct me because you know from history and being that it's during that they're other worst things that cook and co-broad but i'm saying in the modern age is that the post-contact uh... culture it was that combustion engine in two forms and air conditioning for buildings which we talk excessively about always but also as a combustion engine for moving people around for cars right but before that came we did it differently and that's what this slide is about it explain a little bit to us how that was well what we see today is uh... work that under construction are are heavy rail system our metro system is currently under construction as you see in the pillar and upper left corner but we formally had mass transit in the form of streetcars and we started that with streetcars that were pulled by mule as you see in the lower right and then we switched to electric streetcars and those were very common throughout the entire world and this all came to pass right at the king co-op color was in ruling on island and he was very important possible all of them and who in fact traveled all the way around the world first monarch in the entire history of the world to have done that so including to germany by the way yes we have any came to see your people exactly and the chaser i think they did they did and he also imported a band leader from germany henry berger who was very important uh... in it in the uh... evolution of Hawaiian music in the modern era too okay so in that sort of tradition of innovation on the island which you're an expert in uh... we want to give as food for thought to maybe return to these virtues and uh... get back to actually light rail and in order to do so next slide we want to actually look at again where i come from where we want to introduce to project to you and one today and one another show and uh... the first one is the one at the top right which is actually our initial project how our firm started to come and uh... that one we want to go to the next slide and uh... when we will go will be in next april so next month in a year again hopefully you will all join us and we will look at what go to the next life and we talked about this before what president who about the given conditions were analyzed well what happened was that uh... your firm consisting of you and your father word-designed shelters for a late rail system that was installed in handover where you're from and because this like a system had to be put down the center of an existing street it had to be made very skinny so the train cars themselves are skinny platforms are spinning and all of the shelters had to be very shallow they're called because they do provide shade for people to sit and protection but they had to be very small to fit into this site and so as you told me last night there are twelve stops and so twelve shelter systems of shelters had to be built and for each of the stops there range from maybe or shelters to as many as eight depending on how many people use that particular spot and so but it's in that framework these what we're about to see is what your firm created yeah and we have to say that these sort of the initiation of it was an event that made our little sleepy town popular around the world because we want a bit for the world's fair in two thousand who and so that that brought a lot more people in that usually we have and this is a similarity on a little right we bring a lot more people in there with some kinds can handle and visitors as tourists you know we figure this or learn this the heart rate right now which everything that has to do with it and having become our major economical for it and that not for the breaking away will challenges to say the very least right here it was it was a good thing because it brought a poor federal money into so that one was able to do this pretty big undertaking because this line became uh... as an additional artery again bringing people to the export area through public transportation while it would be export was gone it serves previously underserved neighborhood uh... with public transportation and what you see on the slide is the condition that we analyze that usually have with a train system that by a choice in the seventies where they were putting everything in the core of the city on the ground in the subway which will talk about later at the second project next week uh... this train at three feet above grade until the platforms have to be and plus what you said the stations have to be filled in squeezed into an existing streetscape until everything is very very tight and so usually you got these which you see at the top right you got the glass waiting station but then if there's a truck driving right behind you only a few inches apart give you a very uncomfortable feeling off probably hitting you in the back so we did not want that and instead did what at the next life okay so uh... are we on the flight of the two pictures now that the shelter pictures yeah the shelter picture okay a standard what you guys created with the standard module it could be built in every one of the stock and each of those fulfill the basic need for shelter so we see really basic need for shelter the man just lying in a cave we also see that this could be achieved through this very skinny same-size, same dimension structure but as we're going to see every one of them at every stop looks different so they're all the same they all were changed and made unique and individual as well we'll see on-site how they sort of almost design themselves to be very wide to protect you in a maximum way by being skinny and slender in the direction of the platform and and then we call them waiting blocks for obvious reasons and they should have been there are short-term spaces in places of occupancy so we treated the market actually no different than your living room which should you know provide you the same level of comfort and another similarity to Honolulu we said that this is all the shelter one needs in our tropics right sheltering from the rain at the sun while again here i'm currently indoors and in this sort of well alluding to the funny little picture on the on the first slide with the sort of knitted sort of cover over the house you know that's what you need here so that the next slide is going to be uh... again while uh... we will we will experience on-site which you cannot theoretically and only when you're there we experience that that these sort of buildings are uh... you know serve the people but the people have a problem with them which you found out through surveying as a as a as a research tool because they're so long two hundred ten feet long six to seventy meters that people experience them as a barrier from one side of the street to the other one and how did we saw that problem which we thought as a metaphor as an analogy operation on the on the top left well the next life yeah okay so we what was what you said one that and i asked you about this why not just build an entire structure that covers the entire platform for its entire length and this is what you said the people who live there that this is right in front of didn't want that so instead they turned into small individual structures and again they all use the same steel frame work as you can see in the lower picture but they're like stepping stones they're individual so they're not a giant wall that block to be gone and we go to the next slide as you mentioned before and there's another analogy that we'd like to use here these kids obviously little scaryly sitting in the tracks and holding their legs don't do that kid you know no no as you see there is there's when when people are waiting for the train is that it's a bunch of different characters and that informed us to also ask the client you know specifically which station is more frequented which station you know had more demand who were able to actually negotiate once we had sort of identified the little waiting block family members we thought you know you know how big are the families at specific stations and so that created and through that you can actually identify when you see more blocks because these are very materialized very apparent you can see that the station that has more meaning and more frequency and what what they're less uh... there's there's less of that right so the next slide is is then that clue with with all the sort of making sense and all the logic about because after all it's about which we all know to make public transportation sexy how do you make people you know it's more comfortable in your car or convenient commodity so how can you get people to actually use it we as architect but you can do this through the stalls which is the german term that you americans adopted as famous like guys as to basically uh... you know lure people into it and so this is a picture here this is this is historic you should are part of that in your museum because this is before the digital ages came and similar to your dial phone that you're having that you have to get out yet are the last and a lot drawing that we use and that which was a competition in two thousand so these are the actual sort of photo collage uh... board submission board that uh... made us uh... basically win the competition to with you go to the next slide uh... operate based on this very simple sort of both off again you see that section of the scale of the train and you see the section of the station and the station has uh... to protect the people in the best way has double-skinned with a structure with a skeleton inside but very much like the old doctor temper virtue of birthwork framework and enclosure break which he created as a very early modern protagonist and now we will uh... sort of do something or simulate something that we will do actually there and nothing beat the real deal so we will write that that the drill the train and we will then get off each and every station and experience what we will now in the remaining time give a little appetizer for right right so let's go to the the first station and that get out there you know get out of the train and what will we experience for the first station well you said that in this neighborhood and you didn't want to be really literal and how you decide every one of the people with the materials you chose for each one and in this particular neighborhood there are a lot of important building and so you decided to use brick red brick at the same material as commonly seen around but you did some really interesting things with it which first of all you required the bricks to be custom-sized in order to fit the buildings that you are making secondly you required the bricks to be set with the minimum of more very difficult process to achieve because there are standards that you're putting them like that not only was aesthetically attractive but it also meant that graffiti on those bricks then it was not permanently between the bricks unable to be cleaned off because graffiti off of uh... so thinking about who do we attract to join us i can think of people from the art department for example give this project here all the waiting blocks are treated as little on the pieces of architecture and that way there are sort of inhabited art but talking about all these complexities off basically art in the public space i think would be very interesting and actually have been sort of published and awarded all around the world in the sort of category so again artist and material scientist as well as obviously people from art and public transport you know authorities because they would be interesting uh... how other cities municipalities have dealt with such things before and as we will get to in the next short at the beginning will rip up this project how have they been holding up over time because we're talking export to a thousand so that's been a while that's been two decades so that's interesting of how did how did they hold up with a look at the next exactly so the next station here is a very special one because we talked about the platform having to be skinny he had to be extra skinny here because there was even less space but this is a very frequent patient but there's a lot of blocks so and now you challenge me because we always give us uh... you know language lessons and so you taught me a new term yet and that was called or or do i get do i get this together and uh... you know i got i don't know you know i don't think that they are came in a little bit of a little bit less used right nights when they were under their metal suits of farmer in europe exactly that is the flexible but very strong height of a neck and that's a material we use here for several reasons we'll explain on five and that's a material to take home because it's not a similar to the many measures we have been talking about at some building especially mid-century have been deciding to wear protect themselves from the ever shining sun that we need to talk to us from that's right that would be something another material that actually always wanted to do a show about it and that's actually something that sort of an exotic material that glass block yeah and there's a couple of examples of black block in honolulu and that's what that's on our list for future shows to make a little black glass block and keep on looking for best practices of that one correct this one here is is that i think that i like to yeah oh yeah thank you exactly but that's the one there with the ice cubes here as as a metaphor and again this is this actually is the station that has actually set the module that you were talking about because we have to set on one uh... element on one module that you can't cut that you can't customize and that's certainly a glass block but this is an american-sized glass block it's satinated that we use and as you can see it's appearance of changing from when it's an overcast day which we have a lot it looks very much opaque frosty and uh... when it gets winter and the sun is very low and it's sunny the sunshine through as you see at the very bottom left on the the third from the bottom left and they look very ghosty and very skeleton and there was something about the grant on the grant right back to it uh... i think that you would buy that it's right and one of the things that's nice about these different patients is because they're all visually different uh... even though they're the same size and shape that they can be differentiated very clearly without having to look at the name of the station when the train stopped and so people could say that this is the ice cube one or this is the ice house one because it looks like it's made out of ice well again from the that's one aspect sort of giving it identity uh... for the neighborhood but on the other hand when you're in the train you get the experience of experiencing moving in space through places and you don't drive by the same old and same old and don't know which station you get off but also you get excited about being that same thing being interpreted differently so it's almost like in a movie what's seen as neck right back and as i said i don't speak german so if i was to write on this little train line it would be easier for me to not try to learn it funny german word but to just know what but the station look like that i was going to get off exactly and you will when i would take you with me and everyone else okay so the next station here is we will share with the audience a very interesting background story about one of the most contemporarily famous american architect frank o'gary and we won't tell you today because we won't have the time and then you might not want to join us anymore so we can shoot all the ammunition already that we don't know we have plenty here because this is rehearsing took us hours yesterday so there's a lot to talk about but as for today let's move to the next slide and the next station which is the client's favorite because it's a wooden enclosure covered by a metal enclosure by a metal grading that we have been talking quite a bit about which is another structure that could be very favorable for shading our buildings and yet so we can learn from that but the next one next slide eric is you got very fascinated about it the curator uh... and having a lot to do with art this has to do with the dot on wall right yeah that the dot on movement but something that uh... it was created in germany about a hundred years ago and it was a break away from the traditions of art which group of people got together and just created offensive crazy things that weren't traditional and that people found very offensive in some cases and one of them was a guy associated with this way the large client nearby not the client but the big uh... printing company or publisher which was located right at this stop they wanted you to a homage to this particular artist and you've got a very clever way to do that in a way that is paying homage to him that's also not traditional because he wouldn't want have just a traditional type of you know statue or something for himself he was a daughter he would have rejected exactly and that's why i thought i had an impact on how they appear at night which is that next like we're looking at right now with the dark black uh... yeah uh... people on the right side we have to rush through speed up the train here to make it is almost out of time at the next slide here in the next station is how a cookie which is one of the most export all of the export things from my home town and had a work in form a train station the next one that is how uh... how you know uh... shelter a wooden shelter in the forest can become an inspiration for a shelter and the next slide after that is actually the first one on the at that time biggest largest makes a think about the large housing demand we have it on a little that was the biggest uh... residential housing uh... development in the world at the time to house all the people working and and more long-term guest of the expo so that the first station how that materialize interesting and that's why it is a station which is the heart of the community and how do you sort of recall the history of the place we will talk about at that station at the second to last patient at the next slide here uh... and uh... and uh... the next slide for the next group like that and i got you i don't know if we got that one second about talking we always like to talk about naked things right yeah that's right and so this is what happened to that patient and we will talk about why did make it and uh... at time at that time it had a very crazy thing installed it yeah that makes it temporarily not a kid but a different right and the last slide we want to look at today here number twenty three here is the final where we reached the expo obviously the expo was the big and we wanted to step back and so that that station is is designed rather sort of humble and more background but i think with this we're out of time uh... for the show bacon and so we will stop here uh... only to then can pick up again next time and to talk about study tours about which is uh... dwelling upon very american uh... research methods of p o e post-occupancy evaluation ebd evidence based design and help be a life cycle assessment they can look at these first and sort of the sort of online uh... review criticism of the project uh... to give us even more appetite to actually go there together about that sounds really good to me because now i've seen a lot of pictures of these and i know what their story the back story is so i want to be in person okay so then you all back for that uh... and until then they've taken down at home uh... review go back to more of our previous shows and indulge in them and uh... yeah uh... to you next week it by