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Multimodal Transportation Center In Concepcion

Part 2 Project 2003
Gonzalo Abasolo
 University of the Bio Bio | Chile
The project has 2 main objectives:
1.Concentration and transfer of the main city transportation modes.
2.Allow continuity of the axes at the conjunction of a pedestrian promenade with a metropolitan road and railroad track which separate the city from the riverbanks.
As a sort of urban bridge, the transportation center spans over the road and railroad tracks, creating a pedestrian linkage between the city center and the rehabilitated riverfront.
'Steel trees' support platforms at different levels thus generating a wide and dynamic public interior, where travelers and pedestrians can gain easy access to the various transportation modes.
As an urban gate, the project is a landmark imaging urban change and future.



The strength of this project is that has been thought not only as a solution to the urban transportation needs. More than its basic function and concept, it considers the actual urban expansion (due to the densification process and extension of its limits); understanding the transfer station in its relationship with the city; working the architecture of transportation and communication, where the outstanding and regulative elements are pedestrian circulations, modal changes and road accessibility.
It focuses in the concepts of order, connectivity and continuity, transforming itself in the center of the city as a great urban node.

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The site is at the conjunction of a metropolitan road and railroad track with a pedestrian promenade that concentrates part of the most characteristic city urban landmarks.
From a detention to a transfer concept is what urban transportation places are living, where connections, information, accessibility, are fundamental factors to maintain order, continuity and rhythm, due to the expansion that the city is having.
The project is more than a place that only serves for the connections of the transportation modes. As an urban element, it acts as a sort of Bridge creating a pedestrian link between the city center and the new civic and residential neighborhood.
It is basically design with platforms at different levels, generating wide and dynamic spaces for easy access and communication between the different transportation modes. (Local and intercity train, intercity Buses, Taxis, airport connection).
The Transportation Center spans over the roads and railway track, as they have been moved down under the ground level where the project is; allowing the extension of the pedestrian promenade, keeping the continuity and fluency of displacements.
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An Urban Gate. A threshold.
The project acts as the connection between the city center with the consolidated areas for civic and residential neighborhood along the riverfront.
Steel trees are the main structure support. They are distributed in all the building supporting platforms under a walkable roof that allow the entrance of natural light in the areas where they are supported.
Buses platform view. The bus thought also as an extension of the train.
Train platform view.
Interior view. Ticket hall.
Interior view. Waiting areas, Information module and platform connection.
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Exterior view from the park. It corresponds to the rehabilitated areas for civic and residential neighborhood.
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