The station serves as a starting
point of a new urban project, which re-establishes the connection between the
North and South of the city, and leads to a large public park where the roof is an
integrated part giving its geometry and topography to the volume.
All stations
in surface usually mean an abrupt interruption of urban continuity. Precisely, the urban element that is destined to
unite and bring together the city with the territory, leaves a void in the city
involving urban and social segregation. The opportunity to rethink the typology
of the station that the burial of the tracks means, should be a shift in the
form of conceiving them. Intermodal Stations are an opportunity to transform the
city, creating public spaces, developing green belts, promoting pedestrian and
bicycle mobility; an opportunity to create a new topography to intensify the
experience of the city as a collective process.
What makes
the project unique is having faced from its beginnings, an intense divide between infrastructure and urbanism, landscape and architecture, ecology
and economy; with a whole model of management that seeks quality and innovation
in all moments of process and attends both quantitative and qualitative
aspects. In this sense it may be said that it is a pioneering experience both
on landform buildings as well as ecological urbanism.