Transport
Tram Stop in Alicante by Subarquitectura
October 28, 2008
스페인건축가 Subarquitectura는 스페인의 Alicante에 시내 전철정류장의 새로운 이미지를 보여주었다.
Spanish architects Subarquitectura have sent us images of this tram stop they built on a roundabout in Alicante, Spain.
지난해 완전하게 된 프로젝트를 끝마친 건축가는 교통 서클을 공공의 스페이스로 변화시키길 원했다.
With the project, which was completed last year, the architects wanted “to turn a traffic circle into a public space”.
TRAM STOP
Sergio Cardell Plaza. Alicante. SPAIN
This stop, is the central stage of a new line of the tram, that links the centre of the city to the residential areas of San Juan beach.
The construction of the Tram Stop was the opportunity to bring back a stolen space to the city: to turn a traffic circle into a public space.
Through a fractal access system deformed in each side to avoid the existing trees, the travellers can arrive in a frontal way to the platform in 32 different possibilities.
Over the platforms, 2 empty boxes (36 m long, 3 m wide, 2,5 m high) create a floating void slightly over the travellers’ heads. It matches the size of the train, creating an intermediate scale between buildings and urban elements.
There is no difference between structure and envelope, neither between roof and walls. It is an isotropic material in both conception and construction.
The holes reduce the weight as increase the resistance to normal tensions, and equally decrease wind pressures among the surfaces. Light and air pass through, smoothing the shadow and generating a soft breeze in summer months.
At night the boxes are transformed into two giant lamps.
Benchs are spread over the garden close to the vegetation and the paths, creating a public place overlaying the quiet of the seated people and the movement of the people walking.
Each of the pieces has:
800 holes, in 5 different sizes:
440 diameter 10 cm
240 diameter 20 cm
80 diameter 30 cm
24 diameter 40 cm
12 diameter 50 cm
25 steel tons
13 bar lights
36 meters length
22 meters cantilevered
2 compressed supports
2 stressed supports
And…
32 access paths
20 benchs
12 bins
TIMMING
5 months designing
4 months prefabrication
3 months executing
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