Helmond Station
HELMOND STATION
StudioSK,Movares
CATEGORY
Train Station, Parking, Renovation
LOCATION
Helmond, The Netherlands
ARCHITECTS
studioSK,Movares
MANUFACTURERS
Glasdesign
PHOTOGRAPHS
Ben Vulkers fotografie, Ivo Bastiaansen , Bouwfotografe.nl
YEAR
2014
Text description provided by architect.
How to create a meaningful station environment in an era in which the classical station typology is evaporating?
Modern travelling, being almost immaterial, has become ‘traveling light’.
No need to buy tickets anymore, paying with your cell phone, high frequent intensities of train systems preventing you to wait for long.
This modern comfort raises the question: what is left of the iconography and identity of a station(area)?
In most cities there still is a need for identity and an urge to interpret the station area as one of the meaningful focus points in the urban scheme.
StudioSK, Movares has developed a strategy for this: LANDSCAPING THE STATION.
In this design strategy all elements of the surroundings of the station are being considered as an equal part of the project; buildings but also civil structures, station plaza and art in public space.
Thus bringing people together in a multipurpose transit area inviting people to stay and relax in a peaceful atmosphere which puts in perspective the hectic of travelling.
