WMATA

Huntington Metro Station

Lourie Architects LLC met the design challenges of covering an escalator without a well way parapet wall support structure and independent of support from the adjacent Huntington Parking Garage. The design solution adapts the prototypical upper canopy design to the sloped site by utilizing arched cantilevered piers that step to the site contours. The elliptically shaped piers allude to the well way tunnel and the spatial/travel frame of reference of the existing Washington Metrorail System.