Technical & Practice
thrive in laissez-faire environments, key aspects of urban design – in particular infrastructure planning – require careful thought if they are to keep up with growth. Intelligent and imaginative planning is what distinguishes Singapore from gridlocked Bangkok. Over the past 18 years, Terry Farrell & Partners has applied its urban design expertise to infrastructure planning, designing a large railway-station projects in Asia, dubbed ‘megastations’. Farrell’s director Stefan Krummeck
regards the infrastructure of roads, transit systems and public space as a framework for cities. ‘By its nature, a city is a diverse and ever-changing entity’, he says. ‘It is constantly being made and remade, built and torn down, repaired, replaced, converted and recycled.’ In this dynamic process it is the infrastructure that endures, while the individual buildings change to suit evolving needs.
In the 1950s and 60s, with the
growth of air travel, there was a decline in the popularity of long distance railway travel which was accompanied by a deterioration in the environments and locales of large railway stations. But the train has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in recent years and is often regarded as a more convenient, economical and sustainable alternative that works particularly well if there are good connections to metro services. >>
Site plan
Beijing South Station at arrivals level 1. Interchange concourse
2. Metro paid zone 3. Basement carpark 4. Plant
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South Station, platform level Right Beijing South Station’s departures level is naturally lit. The braced catenary roof is supported by 60 raked columns and the 30,000m2 skylight has high- performance glass Following page Guangzhou South Station, daylit departures concourse
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