Beyond mobility infrastructure
In contemporary practice, metro stations are increasingly expanding beyond their transportation function to become multifunctional public spaces. They are conceived as complex nodes that serve as cata…
From the surface to the underground
The Grand Paris Express underground transport project is reconfiguring spaces in the Paris region. With 68 new stations designed by architects, these infrastructures are no longer mere transit points,…
Giulio De Luca's Porta Nolana Terminal Station
Close to Porta Nolana – one of the ancient entrances to the city of Naples – lies the Circumvesuviana Terminal railway line. It can be considered one of the masterpieces by Giulio De Luca, who helped …
Over, Under, Architecture
From the first beaten paths of the prehistoric landscape – simple yet already capable of leaving a mark on the territory – to the paved roads of ancient civilizations, the history of mobility sho…
Pausing in Transit
London to me is like the river—it keeps moving, never still. Beneath the city lies another London. The Underground represents a kind of non-place, where strangers pass but rarely meet (Augé, 1995). In…
Slow Mobility Infrastructures as Educational Urban Passages
In dense and compact European cities, promoting cycling is a key strategy for sustainable mobility, climate adaptation and public health and constitutes a critical component of contemporary mobility p…
The hidden virtues of car parks
Garages are a particular type of building, which have emerged in relatively recent times to meet the ever-increasing demand for parking by motorists. Their design has always been linked to the dimensi…
The Non-Place: Modernist Passages in The Post-Socialist Context
The question of non-place is a philosophical spatial question that architects ask themselves after trying to identify with the built environment. The passage as a (non)place has been processed through…
The Palestinian Transportation Hub as Trap
In post-World War II liberation philosophy, movement and architecture were embedded within state-regulated systems—public planning processes, welfare state infrastructure, and collective social instit…
Two Terminals, Two Theories
Hiroshi Hara’s Discrete City and Rem Koolhaas’s Bigness represent two contrasting paradigms of mega-scale architecture, exemplified by Kyoto Station (1997) and the unbuilt Zeebrugge Terminal (1989). I…