Matilde Negri
Next Stop: Hardbrücke - A new vibrant cityscape for the city of Zürich
Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
It is foreseen that the station of Hardbrücke will host 90’000 passengers per day in the near future, which is as much as the Lausanne station serves nowadays. However, for both its growing number of passengers and for the confining districts the station has nothing to offer. It is not a comfortable place to wait nor to rest. Moreover, the area around the station is characterized by a discontinued and complicated network of traffic and connections, disconnected spaces and lack of identity. Is this situation durable? Is it possible to plan a Station which both serves its purpose as a Mobility Hub but is also an integrated part of the neighborhoods?
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Professor
Hubert Klumpner
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Assistants
Anne Graupner, Diogo Figueiredo
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Details
My project proposes a different vision of the Gleisfeld in Zürich. As an opportunity to provide the lacking and needed space to the city, as an opportunity of re-distribute and better-connect the confining districts, as a new centrality for both passengers and inhabitants: the heart and motor of the tangential axis of the city of Zürich. It is based on a solid mobility change that sees fossil-free mobility as protagonist of the space. Indeed, not only large scale connections through the city are newly provided through the Hardbrücke and through the Viadukt, but also national and international railway connection through the new Hardbrücke Station on the southern part of the Gleisfeld. The surface that newly covers the Gleisfeld is now a space to use and live, providing a new identity and a diverse landscape.