The developing of the concept for the transit node on the Anam New City site came through the progress of many diagrams, helping in revealing the importance of the transit node to the city. The first concept came from diagramming pollution, one of the six key words I had chosen, that would be caused by the transit node, block factory, and poultry farm. Through this the concept of adding sound walls, made of a mixture of glass and concrete, in front of the vegetated swales to help mitigate these elements from the residential areas that are located on the west and the north of the transit node. From this iteration I began to think about the rest of my key words I had chosen to help better understand the focus of the site; density, network, glass, and navigate. Through the diagramming of navigation came the next concept that focuses on the visual site lines at human scale on the site. The of process diagramming site lines showed the understanding that keeping key visual lines of site open through the transit node would not only connect the site to the entire city, but also give people a way finding through the site as well. The sites lines then lead to delineating what would be build able area and non-build able area according to what would and would not block these views.
By then manipulating these forms created in this diagram I came up with the final concept. This idea further progressed after 
looking at precedents such as Edwin Santhagen’s Hodge Weide Park where he uses pavement hierarchy to help create a focal point on the 
site. I tried to utilize this idea by using different pavement materials such as concrete and permeable pavers for the pathways, and turf for the amoebic shapes where the kiosks and seating will be placed. Lastly I wanted to use a vegetative canopy to help with the pollution absorption on the 
site and also as way of connecting the natural surroundings of Anam City to the new mixed used city.
By then manipulating these forms created in this diagram I came up with the final concept. This idea further progressed after 
looking at precedents such as Edwin Santhagen’s Hodge Weide Park where he uses pavement hierarchy to help create a focal point on the 
site. I tried to utilize this idea by using different pavement materials such as concrete and permeable pavers for the pathways, and turf for the amoebic shapes where the kiosks and seating will be placed. Lastly I wanted to use a vegetative canopy to help with the pollution absorption on the 
site and also as way of connecting the natural surroundings of Anam City to the new mixed used city.
your engaged pursuit of the "desire lines" across your site as a means of generating a formal design language is exciting to say the least. Imagining those lines and their extensions into and through to the larger context is theoretically going very well in the context of calibrating systems related to transportation infrastructure. It's also working very well at the site scale. It needs to be pushed more in the direction of human adaptation however, so that it can be flexible and elastic as you've clearly intended it to be. Would it be useful to consider the armature you've developed from the perspective of waste and localized pollution from the range of people who would be traversing the site? I'm referring to the workers this site would service, perhaps less prone to consider trash and waste material as you or I as a problem in the landscape. Ask yourself some important questions and try to resolve them through your masterplan and diagrams: what is the system of waste management, points of impact, collection zones/points, etc? Does the site act like a progressive “transfer station”? where can you inject program? Compost stations? Food? Bathrooms? How is this activity screened or viewed spatially? As the city's first of many transit plazas, kiosks will be informally setup immediately, how does the site grow around them or does it include a flexible platform for them to occupy? The big question for you is: is it adaptive?
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