Futuristic High Speed Stuttgart Rail Station

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The Main Station Stuttgart that originally designed in 2007 have incredibly design for sustainability and green transportation. This station designed to accommodate high speed rail. It was Ingenhoven Architects, whose design turned the tracks 90 degrees and place them underground in order to create a massive new park in the city center.

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As for sustainability, huge skylights and light wells pump natural daylighting down onto the subterranean tracks, and with the use of photovoltaics on a nearby building, the whole complex is virtually net zero.

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As ones of importan city in european, Stuttgart must have rail station to accomodate high speed rail system. This satation has circular “light eyes” in the roof hat will serve as skylights down into the station below and operable windows in conjunction with ventilation tubes in order to eliminate the need for mechanical ventilation.

The use of natural daylighting and ventilation minimizes energy needs for the station and additional lighting will be energy efficient and be provided for via a photovoltaic system on the existing northern station building.

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Concrete is used to construct the underground station and is painted in light colors in order to reflect natural light during the day. This gigantic project was designed in 1997, long before sustainable architecture concept been popular. So, the concept of light wells and ventilation tubes was really quite innovative.

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Main Station Stuttgart is part of a large rail redevelopment project, called Stuttgart 21, which includes restructuring the rail node in Stuttgart and constructing a high speed rail line Wendlingen and Ulm and linking it with other major European HSR nodes. This project also received a Gold Global Holcim Award in 2006.

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source : inhabitat, bahnprojekt, ingenhovenarchitects, plataformaarquitectura, holcimfoundation

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