NORTH ARROW
At the crossing of the transport
routes in the cities, where there is constant presence of people and their
movement, there is formed certain public space, which has its own especial
atmosphere. Usually, stations in any country of the world, in any city, both bus
and railway, arouse people’s typical formed stereotypes. And what if they are all
identical? Same dowel, same rails and typical bulkheads over them. That is why each
station should have its own unique appearance, its own atmosphere.
The Project proposes to reconstruct
the following points: 1. bus station bulkhead, 2. dowel bulkhead, 3. passage
over the railway track. Each of these three elements has its own solution, but at
the same time, all of them represent together the component part of the common
composition. In our Project we have for an object the creation of dynamic, integral
and at the same time light, full of air composition.
1. Te bus station bulkhead includes
metal frame and semitransparent cover. It has monolithic, zigzagging shape, repeating
the lines of platforms. At the same time the level differences create dynamic,
nonrecurring composition from different points of perception.
2. The dowel bulkhead consists
of metal supports, ropes and Cembrit sheets. The metal supports location with random
step has small deviation angle from vertical line. Between the supports there are
fixed guy lines in order one group of lines may create strict line, starting
out of the dowel and gradually lifting, passing along landing platform and
reaching its utmost development above the bus station. Another group of lines is
fixed in more random manner, creating triangles of irregular shape. These triangles-sails
are filled at small distances with Cembrit sheets of two colors (URBANNATURE-408
Cembrit Fusion Coated Chocolate-df new2, URBANNATURE 405 Cembrit Fusion Glazed
Pine-df), through their fixation to ropes. Each triangle has its own width of
sheet and its own step. In the same manner, but in smaller scale and with vertical
direction there is formed decorative shield at the opposite side of the dowels.
The proposed barrier has aesthetic function and ensures partial noise reduction.
The proposed construction creates through simple solution unusual composition,
as well as complicated space, light and shadow dancing.
3. The passage above the railway
tracks is proposed to be covered up with the material with mirror surface from
the outside and transparent from the inside, preserving at the same time the
old shape. In addition, the passages are covered from the outside with frame,
made of C-shaped curb rolls, produced from Cembrit ((URBANNATURE 306 Cembrit
True Urulu-df). The block above the dowel is covered up with the same frame from
the inside, but at perpendicular to the passages direction (URBANNATURE-116
Cembrit Metro Naples-df). Mirror surface gives the possibility to make the passage
lighter, as if to dilute it in environment. Color air frame from Cembrit adds lines
strictness, at the same time preserving lightness. The functional ability of the
mirror surface will serve as addition to regulation of road traffic movement.