A large portion of Tallahassee residents lack sufficient public transportation options. The Southside Sustainable Transit Center, a bus hub located on Orange Avenue, was designed to address this need by providing bus route access to Tallahassee’s southside community.
We focused on designing the main building on the site: a two-story, multi-use structure arranged as three small buildings in a line, separated by approximately 50 feet of concrete pads and connected on the second floor by a continuous floor. The first story served passengers and bus drivers, while the second story provided office space for City of Tallahassee workers. Our scope also included a traffic analysis to ensure adequate bus turning movements.
We began by developing a conceptual drawing encompassing the foundation, columns, beams, walls, roof, and their connections, then estimated structural loads to design components capable of supporting them. We modeled all components in Revit to produce the final building plans. For the traffic analysis, we collected intersection volume data from existing databases and compiled our findings into a formal report.
Our design process incorporates special sustainability considerations. Rather than optimizing purely for cost, we evaluated environmental and community impacts alongside structural and functional requirements, reflecting our commitment to responsible engineering in an underserved community.