Ned Kahn lived in San Francisco for over 20 years, many of which were spent designing educational exhibits at the Exploratorium. He recently moved to Sebastopol in Sonoma County to expand his studies and laboratory space. Mr. Kahn’s work is a seamless synthesis of nature, art and technology. He investigates the essence of and the interactions between natural, human, and artificial systems. He is well-known for creating works that make visible, tactile or audible the forces and forms of nature. For the San Francisco International Airport, he created an artwork that consists of 200,000 mirrored disks which respond to the air currents generated by passing trains and the natural wind flowing through the BART Station. Mr. Kahn was awarded the 2003 MacArthur Fellowship and Cooper-Hewitt’s 2004 National Design Award for Environmental Design. He is working on water and wind-based projects throughout the world with renowned architects such as Moshe Safdie.

For the Transit Center, Ned Kahn will install a series of water jets on the rooftop park that will be triggered by sensors that respond to the vibrations of the flow of buses on the deck below. The frequency, motion and height of the jets will correspond to the level of activity on the bus deck, making the arrivals and departures of the buses visibly tangible through their choreographed affect on the water.