IMAGINE: A new amusement park in San Francisco -- an attraction much like Tivoli Gardens or Navy Pier.  Residents and visitors alike ride up Blue Steel, the new ferris wheel, with grand views of the city.  Breathtaking!

 

Recalling my younger RollerCoaster Tycoon days and my love of amusement parks, I toyed with the idea of putting a ferris wheel on top of the Central Freeway.  Engineering aside, with all the buzz about the High Line and Bloomingdale Trail, why not?  If we are to keep the Central Freeway, in what ways can we repurpose it for people?  This was a fun exercise (and my first cross section), completed for a sketch design assignment in Elizabeth MacDonald's Plan Preparation Studio.