The Staedelhofen Railway Station in Zurich,Switzerland (1990)
Staedelhofen Railway Station in Zurich,Switzerland (1990) has a graceful, curving canopy of laminated glass developed with counterpoised steel.
Staedelhofen Railway Station, Zurich, Switzerland (1990)
Santiago Calatrava's design for the Stadelhofen railway station in Zurich (Switzerland) draws its inspiration from the natural fall of the terrain. A major factor in the Swiss Federal Railway's selection of Calatrava's design over that of nine other contestants for the job was the omission of a tunnel. Instead, Calatrava created a perfect compromise, undercutting and redefining the hillside to create an open platform and the feeling of space by using laminated glass.
Above the station's original retaining wall, a promenade with a laminated glass pergola runs its full length, enhanced by a cable trellis to create a transparent green canopy that relates to the green of the 19th century area behind the station. This softens the station's intrusion into an environment that includes mature trees.
The transparent laminated glass canopy extending the entire length of the open platform ensures both the spaciousness of the platform area and a maximum of light filtering down to the passage below. The canopy is supported on steel flanges arranged along a torsion tube. Placed asymmetrically to enhance the space, these inclined and splayed supports are also of welded plate. The curved laminated glass canopy is the main ordering element that defines all the varied neighbouring structures. Aerodynamic tests ensured the resistance of the laminated glass to the slipstream wind from passing double-decker TGV trains.
Staedelhofen Railway Station in Zurich,Switzerland (1990) has a graceful, curving canopy of laminated glass developed with counterpoised steel.
Staedelhofen Railway Station, Zurich, Switzerland (1990)
Santiago Calatrava's design for the Stadelhofen railway station in Zurich (Switzerland) draws its inspiration from the natural fall of the terrain. A major factor in the Swiss Federal Railway's selection of Calatrava's design over that of nine other contestants for the job was the omission of a tunnel. Instead, Calatrava created a perfect compromise, undercutting and redefining the hillside to create an open platform and the feeling of space by using laminated glass.
Above the station's original retaining wall, a promenade with a laminated glass pergola runs its full length, enhanced by a cable trellis to create a transparent green canopy that relates to the green of the 19th century area behind the station. This softens the station's intrusion into an environment that includes mature trees.
The transparent laminated glass canopy extending the entire length of the open platform ensures both the spaciousness of the platform area and a maximum of light filtering down to the passage below. The canopy is supported on steel flanges arranged along a torsion tube. Placed asymmetrically to enhance the space, these inclined and splayed supports are also of welded plate. The curved laminated glass canopy is the main ordering element that defines all the varied neighbouring structures. Aerodynamic tests ensured the resistance of the laminated glass to the slipstream wind from passing double-decker TGV trains.
