Tag Archives: Planta Baixa

A LIFTED OPEN HALL

A LIFTED OPEN HALL

The bus lines map shows clearly the blocking effect produced by the station as almost any line continues from one side to the other. The project deals with this situation and suggests the overlapping of the different levels of traffic, a common strategy for intermodal nodes.
By rising the entrance hall at the first floor level, it allows to free up the central space of the building. The ground floor becomes a continuous space only interrupted by the vertical accesses linking the basement with the first floor.
Bus, tram, bicycles and pedestrians can cross through this in-between space embedded under the station hall and on top of the underground platforms.

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Comment on the project by Carla Compte

RESHAPING THE GROUND LEVEL

RESHAPING THE GROUND LEVEL

The connection between the station’s front and the rear is solved by integrating its roof to the city. Now it is currently occupied by activities that could easily be relocated. The project suggests the allocation of a bus station that could gather local and long-term bus interchange.
Vehicles would go up the station through a sloping ground plane, thus reinforcing the current intermodal condition of the station.
The sloped plane generates a new topography that gives space for new programs at the lower level and, at the same time, opens a new viewpoint to the city.

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Comment on the project by Manel Domínguez