Program: Transportation Hub, Public Square, Commercial

Type: Academic Concept

Architect: John Kanakas

Period: 2017 – 2018

The project constitutes a critique in the homogeneity of urban and transit spaces, in relation to the physical and social passivity caused within the quotidien, that forms a problematic notion of unconscious circulatory (way-finding) comfort. The correlation of these conditioned generic spaces with the repetition of our everyday life, can be considered a certain form of alienation. In the same time, while being problematized in the strong segregation between public and transit spaces, the project aims to bring back the social life in a more continuous urban-transit environment. Nowadays stations have a large socio-political as well as economic impact on cities and countries since they operate as small-scale cities, providing an extreme diverse amount of services. In the same time the role of a station as a distinctive building typology is evolving. It is both a place of transition and a destination of its own. The ambiguity of its spaces allows for various usage throughout the day, while addressing the comfort of each individual. In the larger picture, while questioning the strict function of architectural form in relation to a predetermined usage, the project aims to provoke new forms of existence and new ways of living, while embracing spontaneity and ambiguity within our daily routines.