08
Apr

2010

Tomorrow’s Urban Gondola

Post by Steven Dale

All images courtesy of the Doppelmayr Garaventa Group. Design by Johannes Geisler.



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Gondola / Urban Planning & Design
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  1. Ryan_OC_NZ
    April 8, 2010 – 4:57 pm
    Interesting photo's. It is about time Doppelmayr Garaventa actually started properly promoting aerial ropeways for urban applications, instead of just paying it 'lib service' on its website. This is a good start, prime marketing opportunity for them! --- Now the next obvious step (which is years over due!) is actually providing designs and drawings on attractive, sleek, small 'footprint' station designs for sensitive urban environments, where land is at a premium and 'looks' are very important!!!!!! --- Apart from the South American examples (which have massive terminals - for a number of reasons not related to the engineering of the ropeway) we just don't have hardly any material for visualizing and planning systems in urban environments. This is really frustrating for Planners or Engineers trying to consider ropeway technology as a transport option within their cities.
  2. Steven Dale
    April 8, 2010 – 7:15 pm
    Totally agree. There's some new ideas that just came out of a school in Toronto regarding that point. I'll talk a bit about it next week.
  3. pissed off trekker
    August 9, 2010 – 6:30 am
    well i hope u finally started on this project or maybe u so consider a monarail system perhapps la would be a good site lol.....
  4. pissed off trekker
    August 9, 2010 – 6:31 am
    have a lovely day yall..
  5. Claudiu
    March 10, 2011 – 4:51 pm
    veri Nice....2020..?
  6. Guenther Ecker
    March 11, 2011 – 7:26 pm
    A beautiful prototype. Only two specimens were produced. http://www.michels-gfk.de/gfk-seilbahn-kabinen.php
  7. Guenther Ecker
    March 11, 2011 – 8:57 pm
    # Ryan ! "Now the next obvious step (which is years over due!) is actually providing designs and drawings on attractive, sleek, small ‘footprint’ station designs for sensitive urban environments, where land is at a premium and ‘looks’ are very important!!!!!! " Look the first picture of the video: http://en.leitner-lifts.com/Produkte/2S-und-3S-Bahnen The bottom station of the 3S (Tricable Detachable Gondola) to Ritten, a part of the town Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Or have a look to the "Hungerburgbahn", Innsbruck, Austria designed by Zaha Hadid: http://thomasmayerarchive.de/details.php?image_id=111982&l=english a cable car, http://www.nordkette.com/en/cable-railways/architecture.html
  8. LX
    March 12, 2011 – 2:56 am
    A different and good looking design. Finally!
  9. LX
    March 30, 2011 – 12:07 pm
    The Michels GFK design was meant in the previous comment.

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