Through June 2023, I studied the impact of the shift to electric vehicles on gas stations in New York State. I received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and The Architectural League of New York for the study that will include a short film and a website to share the research and the design of prototypes for urban, suburban and rural stations.

Here is a link to the grant announcement

The Future Station Project was featured in the Spring 2024 issue of Metropolis magazine in print and online.

I’m Michael Woods, an architect and a filmmaker. Feel free to contact me about the project, the prototypes and where you see this going in the future.

Find out more about my work here: michaelglenwoods.com

Thanks to the following people and organizations that helped with the project. I provided links to some of the work that was important to the development of this project and would serve as reference material for others exploring the same subject:

Laurie Woods, Brendan Woods, Bridget Woods

Karen Raskoff

Matthew Keim - see his music and sound design here and thanks for your contributions to the film.

Yao Lu, Obilo Jenkins - see their research for Perkins &Will here showing ways that local communities can study options for gas station sites.

Jeff Gunning, Billy Plummer, Matt Usbeck, David Cassidy - see the work of Callison RTKL for their work on the 7-Eleven Lab Store.

Martin Leitner - see the designs of Perkins & Will and several other firms in the Pump to Plug symposium. This was organized by Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, in collaboration with the 3rd LA public-affairs series at USC's Academy in the Public Square and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. The recording is available on YouTube.

Doug Fountain, Pat Cullen

Nathan King - see the It’s Electric website for their curbside EV charging built for cities.

Adam Lubinsky - see the work of WXY Studio in New York for EV charging urban design and planning studies.

Paul Lipson - see the work of Barretto Bay Strategies for their consulting work in the area of renewable energy and clean transportation.

Margaret Newman - see the work of Stantec and other firms on the AIA New York report on urban freight entitiled Delivering the Goods: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of E-Commerce.

Emily Grubert - see the study on designing for the mid-transition where the people will need to refuel their cars as the changes accelerate.

Nate Bliss, Nilus Klingel - see their work and that of many others at the City of New York on these issues.

Joel Levin - see Plug In America for their nonprofit work that serves as the voice of electric vehicle consumers across the United States.

Pat Corbett and the H P Sears Oil Co. Museum in Rome, NY

Alper Kadioglu

Buffalo History Museum

The Henry Ford

Museum of the City of New York

Library of Congress

Arne Jacobsen Design and the Royal Danish Library

Vitra

I am very grateful for all the support on this project from so many people. This project originally called: Station to Station: The Future of Gas Stations in New York with the Transition to Electric Vehicles is supported by Independent Projects, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts and the Architectural League of New York. Independent Projects grants are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State legislature. Thanks!