Madrid Train Station
An orthogonal exploration into nodes and webs.
An orthogonal exploration into nodes and webs.
Ground Level Plan of Train Station
In my Spring 2007 design studio, the project was developing a train station in Madrid, Spain. The project brief laid out many different aspects of architecture that I had yet to investigate, among them a landscape portion. My landscape design investigation was based off of a grid that was derived by the streets adjacent to the site. This grid was also an abstraction of spider webs and nodes. What it created was a network of paths and nodes that interwove to form the circulation existing around and through the site.
It was this notion of nodes and paths that I extended into the design of the train station. Besides the station itself, it had supplemental programing which consisted of a hotel, commercial spaces, and parking. By using the idea of the nodes I broke up the program into many small buildings that formed the nodes with a network of paths on the ground level as well as an elevated level.
It was this notion of nodes and paths that I extended into the design of the train station. Besides the station itself, it had supplemental programing which consisted of a hotel, commercial spaces, and parking. By using the idea of the nodes I broke up the program into many small buildings that formed the nodes with a network of paths on the ground level as well as an elevated level.
Model Image of the exterior of one of the "nodal" buildings.
Model Image of the interio of a "nodal" building from ground level looking up.
