Mezzo-Liner Maglev & Platform 29 | The New Harvey House

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With a serious lack of fossil fuels, air travel is reserved for the elite. Interstate freeways were mostly destroyed with the return of the Western Interior Seaway. Which leaves elevated high-speed electric maglevs as the the only way to Traverse the flooding of central North America. These electric trains however must make stops to recharge, opportunities for guests to stay at notable hotels such as the New Harvey House.

When the Mezzo-Liner pulls up at Platform 29, train passengers become hotel guests and their excursion into the badlands begins. Luggage is sequestered from the train and taken through an underground passage to the hotel along with anyone who can’t make the trek up to the hotel on foot.

Platform 29 is designed to making the loading/unloading experience as smooth as possible. With on-site restrooms, ramps, elevators, and awnings to shield guests from inclement weather.

Not just respect, but improvement upon nature, is at the core of the New Harvey House design. The landscape should appear as if it was never complete until man put architecture upon it. At Platform 29 that means terraced levels of rammed earth construction made from local sedimentary materials. What isn’t traversable space is left as natural gardens.

Only endemic plantings are considered here, so all the Rocky Mountain Junipers, Snakeweed, Great Plains Yuccas and Grasses you see here are local.

At the base of the Great Plains connection to eroded cliffs, winds can get heavy. This poses a design challenge for a number of reasons. Falling rocks can damage the platform and the awnings built for guest sun/rain cover, are a sitting duck for winds attracted to surfaces with high area and little mass.

Therefore to resolve the rocks, hydraulic adjustable nets positioned towards the cliffs can catch falling rocks, while the awnings have an automatic and motorized cable system for retraction.