INTRANSIT

VISITED /
OBSERVATION

I went to Transportation Museum in Covent
Garden to do some research about Under-
ground in London. After having enough
idea and how people think about transpor-
tation. I also want to observe how people
occupy each space, including: Earl’s Court,
Victoria, Wimbledon and Tolworth.

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I was looking at many models of tube station to
get the idea of planning and customer journey
system from the ticket office down to the plat-
form. One of the exhibition room was about new
Tube line that’s going to be opening soon, which
is Elizabeth Line. From what I saw, I think most of
the new stations these day are very modern and
much cleaner than the old one. Furthermore, the
ventilation system is so much better and also air-
conditioner is installed. That’s why I would like to
focus on the older Tube station and see what I
could do to improve it.
I also created a survey on Survey Monkey web-
site to get a general idea of what Tube users think
about the services and what their opinion is on
how to improve or make things better.
Taken by Author., (2018), ‘Station model’, London
Transport Museum.

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Earl’s Court Station

I did a video showing the movement and the
flowing of the people in the space throw dif-
ferent time of the day: morning, afternoon and
evening. The reason I picked Earl’s Court to look
at because it has it’s own character and not like
the other underground station. There is also
train to Heathrow Airport and also underground
that’s above ground and it has a lot of transition
in one station because it is the last stop before
the district line separate into four ends.
Scan the QR code for the movie.

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Taken by Author, Earl’s Court
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Taken by Author, Earl’s Court
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Victoria Station

Victoria Station is one of the stations in London
that’s has a lot of dynamic and very busy since
there is a lot of buses and train express that go
to many different airports in London. I can see
that most people are carrying luggage or back-
pack.
Scan the QR code for the movie.

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Taken by Author, Victoria
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Taken by Author, Victoria
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Wimbledon to Tolworth

Train stations, in general, are very interesting to
look at. In comparing to the underground sta-
tions because of the duration time is longer.
There are more activities and movement in each
waiting area. For example, duty-free in an airport
as well as coffee shop and supermarket in most
of the big train station.
Scan the QR code for the movie.

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Taken by Author, Wimbledon
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Taken by Author, Tolworth

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DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT

I saw this whiteboard at Pimlico Tube Station. My first
reaction was laughing and then I took a photo and share
it on social media. I found it funny and inspiring at the
same time. So I thought this could be something that I
can achieve.
So the first idea was to create many small interventions
through traveller journey from ticket office down to the
platform. Making a small change or invent something
nice that make people happier or distress their city life
that always in a rush.
Taken by Author, Pimlico

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Taken by Author, Victoria
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Sketches by Author

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Collage by Author, Victoria Station



Collage by Author, Victoria Station



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Isada Kultavarakorn MA Interior and Spatial Design IN TRANSIT

(People movement in transitional space, focusing on public transport such as underground and train.)
The movie on display is an observation of people movement and activities while they are travelling. And also some
survey from the Tube users in London. Focusing on what are their concern and what are they doing while travelling.

SURVEY RESEARCH

TUBE USERS Clean USERS CONCERN
Users 30% Air pollution
96% 25%

Non-users Others Delay Overcrowded
4% 5% 10% 15%
No Internet on board
Price 10%
5%

There are three big concerns including cleanness, air-pollution and overcrowded. However, these 3 problems are too big for me to fix it by myself.
Especially, when these problems are already in process of developing and according to Transport for London website, they are already aware of the
problem. So I only explore on fixing the obvious problem I saw in Victoria Station. I added roof and ceiling panel that absorb some sound to make
the station less noisy. And the other one is growing an indoor plant or a hydroponic plant to make the atmosphere fresher.

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WHAT USERS DO WHILE THEY ARE ON BOARD USERS FEELING BORED
Bored
Listen to music Reading 70% Isada Kultavarakorn MA Interior and Spatial Design
65% 15%
Not bored
Others 30%
15%
Playing games
5%

Even with the tube which is a small duration but 70 percent of people is bored. Most people are listening to music and reading books but what
about a long journey that's take more than 2 hours? What do people do? Wifi is available but not free, phone signal is unstable and charger socket
isn’t available for every seat. The next idea I would like to research more on a long journey and movable activity room that can be provided on trains.

Work in Progress Scan the QR code for the movie.

On the work in progress presentation, I pin up a post-
er with information that I did earlier. I gather all the
research and survey I did in one video and illustrate
the statistic information into many pie charts. There
are also proposals in collage images of what could
be improved or to be done in the future.

Taken by Author

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SITE RESEARCH

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Clapham Junction Station

From all the information I have, there is two topic that I’m interested, which are overcrowded
and pollution. I when to Clapham Junction Station to see this waiting area that was built as an
extension afterwards to reduce the number of people on the platform. In the room also install an
information screen that tells you what time the next train will be arriving.

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King’s Cross Station

Pollution is also one of the topics I think it is
interesting. So I went online researching for a
possible site that I could look at. Then I came
across this article from Evening Standard news
saying that Northern line is one of the dirtiest
Tube lines in 2016. And also I found a site that
gave you a diagram of hotspot polluted area
in London, which King’s Cross and Euston are
the two most polluted area.

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Taken by Author, King’s Cross Station
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The
Regent’s
Park

Euston

Great Warren
Portland Street
Street
Marylebone Baker
Edgware Road Street

The
Regent’s
Park

Euston

Great Warren
Portland Street
Street
Marylebone Baker
Edgware Road Street

Illustration by Author, Information from http://www.
howpollutedismyroad.org.uk/hotspots.php

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2013 - 2015

King’s Cross

King’s Cross 2015 - Present

Comparing these two maps of the polluted area in London and
I figure the stations that are overground or the one that railway
actually above the ground such as district and circle line isn’t
that polluted. So I suggested that because the ventilation sys-
tem is much better.

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I went to King’s Cross to survey the area and finding a po-
tential site. I found that outdoor waiting area in front the
station very interesting. I started to notice that people use
this waiting area as a smoking area. The majority of peo-
ple who are waiting are actually inside where the timetable
screens are.

Taken by Author, King’s Cross Station
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Taken by Author, King’s Cross Station
After the site research, I felt like there is a lot more to
look at in King’s Cross and there are also more contexts
to talk about. So I decided to look at the waiting area
in King’s Cross.

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Collection of can and paper cup I found.
Collage by Author, King’s Cross Station

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Collection of cigarette butt I found on the floor.
Collage by Author, King’s Cross Station

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The first thing that hit me when I was there was ciga-
rette smell. Especially for a non-smoker, I feel like this
smell must be very sensitive. As soon as I started to look
around, there are also a lot of cigarette butts left on
the floor. There are coffee cups, alcohol cans, train tick-
et and etc. There are also people just eating their fast
food next to a trash bin.
I felt like there are so many disgusting things around
but people just ignore it because people just get used
to the bad smell after a while. And especially in this
space, people just come and go very quickly, so they
didn’t really look after it.
I came up with this idea of Oxygen room. I was looking
at the smell and the fresh air quality and also looking
at lichen plant that only grow in a certain area with a
certain air condition.

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Sketch by Author, King’s Cross Station

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EXPERIMENTATION

In this experiment chapter, I was looking at the different sense of smell
both good and bad.

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Making a box and try to capture smoke and smell.
Model by Author

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My second attempt at trying to cap-
ture smoke I built a smoker machine
and burn some cigarette that I collect
from the street.
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