Hyperloop Station: The Future City-Gate
Moustroufis Nikos, BA (Year: 3)
The project is dealing with the issue of genericness versus specificity (infrastructure versus architecture) with reference to entering the European city through a future transportation system: the Hyperloop train. Seeing how today’s historical gates are drowned by the expanding city and how generic and vast today’s infrastructural gates are, the project is proposing a new type of city-gate to be formed around the Hyperloop tube: the Hyperloop station. It is a prototypical project offering a new type of urbanism to grow around existing and future infrastructures. It has three layers: the infrastructures, the generic architecture and the specific architecture. The design of the generic architecture is based on the strategy of scaling down and multiplying all the necessary transit-related programatic elements to create shorter sequences of generic architecture. These have a closer proximity to the specific architecture attached to it, which will form the condensed version of the city around the loop.

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