Chair of / Cátedra de /
Lehrstuhl für

Archi-
tecture
&
Urban
Design

Prof. Hubert Klumpner

 

Chair of Architecture and
Urban Design /  
Institute of Landscape- and
Urban Studies / LUS
Member of Network City and Landscape / NSL
Co-Director of ETH Wohnforum,
Centre for Architecture
Society and Environment / ETH Wohnforum / ETH CASE
Co-Founder and Members
of Institute of Science
Technology and Policy / ISTP
Member of the ETH Sustainability
Steering Committee
Informal Urbanism Regional
Hub of UN-Habitat Universities

 

DARCH

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?