8TH. SEMESTER:
PREPOSITIONS / NEW METRO STATION /
CITY HALL SQUARE /COPENHAGEN
This highly conceptual and provocative project aims to put the public in the City Hall Square, as well as on it. The void and the metro machine is thus a seamless part of the city, as your bones is a seamless part of your hand.
The scale-less amorphous mesh covers a large portion of the square and gently slopes from street level to platform level. The void, which measures 15m. deep, 70m. wide and 140m long, is covered with a transparent grid which provides spectacular entrances to the metro - three main portals that can accommodate thousands of passengers each day. Structurally, H-profile beams and T-beams support the steel mesh surface with paired rounded steel columns organizing the metro tunnels.
The metro itself is penetrating the concave shape, incoming trains is then completely revealed to the public. The space below, apart from being a transit hub, is also meant to be a negative imprint of the city itsel, that lets one experience the noise, light and movement of the inner city from below. The project is not adding programs on the square, that way it is still a natural place for mass-gatherings and open air concerts.
