To access the bus station, you have to enter and travel through the subway, as the station is located on a lower level
than the main town.
The subway contains lots of different shops, like fast food, a news kiosk, casino and nightclub/bar.
These places effect the way people interact with the site, and creates an interesting comparison between different
times of day.
The main things I will look at are:
Effect of the shops
Sound levels
Amount/flow of people
Peoples view of the place at different times of day
The effect of shops:
The subway has many different shops, and this has a big effect on people as they travel through the space.
For example, at lunch time, the cafe, takeaway food and news kiosks get very busy. Large groups of people gather
around these spaces and queue.
However, these places are closed in the night, but other places are then open, such as the casino and on certain
nights, the White Rabbit bar.
This not only affects the amount of people, but the type of person as well.
So you will mainly get workers and older people traveling through the station in the day, and at night,
students going to the White rabbit, and older men using the casino.
The amount and flow of people:
Here you can see similar positions photographed at day and night.
It is a lot quieter here at night, but there are occassionally flurrys of people getting off/on buses.
What is interesting between the 2 times of day is that people do not seem to hang around at night. The flow of people is much more
direct than it is in the day. People seem to drift in and out throughout the day at a regular speed, but at night people will walk straight
through and not hang around. This probably has something to do with the image and personal views of the site at night, which I will talk
about in a bit.
The exact times of day also have an effect on the amount of people.
During our investigations of the site, we made these rough generalizations of the sort of people that use the space at certain times of day.
6am-9am: Very quiet, staff and commuters generally make up the amount of people
9am-11am: Usually older folk come in and leave around this time
11am-12pm: The station becomes very busy, with all sorts of people using the site.
12pm-1pm: The food facilites of the station start attracting queues and large groups of people
1pm-3pm: Becomes quieter after the rush of lunchtime
3pm-5pm: Lots of School children return from school on the bus
5pm-6pm: Becomes very busy again, with mainly commuters returning from work.
7pm-10pm: Station becomes very quiet, with the odd flock of people travelling through.
10pm-12am: Occasional buses and groups of people
12am - 6am: No buses run at these times so it is very quiet.
