Aedas R&D

Highway 407 Station is a key base in Toronto’s “Transit City 2050” Masterplan to reducing inner city congestion by providing a strategic interchange between private car park and ride, subway, express guided bus transitway and local bus services adjacent Highway 407. Key concepts of the scheme include minimising passenger circulation distances by anchoring the transit nodes around a central retail concourse, providing column free spaces for simplified way-finding and providing direct sunlight deep into the station and subway platform reducing the need for artificial light.

The Advanced Modelling Group assisted the design team with the control and panelisation of the bus terminal roof and internal soffit. Through the precise control of tangent surfaces, contours of the roof satisfy the specific cladding constraints of flat and twisting elements. The internal soffit is composed of flat stepping panels and was generated over the concourse decent to reflect daylight and define the entrance to the bus terminal.