Portland Aerial Tram by Agps Architecture

The tram is designed as a minimal intervention with light and open structures that dematerialize transportation infrastructure. The building elements include an upper station, an intermediate support tower, a lower station, and two tram cars. The upper station is an open air covered platform supported by braced steel legs balancing on a steep site, wedged between hospital buildings. The intermediate tower is built of steel plate, shaped in response to the physical forces acting upon it. The lower station, a covered open platform at street level, is the public center of its new neighborhood. The tram car, curvilinear with reflective aluminum and glass, is intended to dematerialize against the sky as it passes over the urban neighborhood below.