UNStudio has unveiled photos of the primary completed stations on the brand new Doha Metro Community, one of the vital superior and quickest driverless programs on the earth. Part one of many Qatar Built-in Railway Venture (QIRP), concerned the development of three metro traces (Crimson, Inexperienced, and Gold), with 37 stations presently having been accomplished.
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Specializing in mobility as placemaking, UNStudio has created a imaginative and prescient for the station designs of the all-new Doha Metro Community and collaborated with the Qatar Rail Structure Division on the event of an Architectural Branding Guide. Presently, below improvement by the Qatar Railways Firm (RAIL), the challenge includes a whole railway system, consisting of 4 Metro Strains with roughly 30 stations in part 1 and one other 40 stations in part 2.
We’re going to transfer in another way sooner or later. Mobility is altering quick, from the introduction of autonomous autos to city cable automobiles and the Hyperloop. The mobility hubs of the longer term have to reply to and cater to those adjustments. With the intention to encourage using extra sustainable types of transport, these stations not solely have to make sure easy passenger flows, however they should really attraction to the general public; to be locations they need to go to and return to. — Ben van Berkel.
Creating stations with public attraction and powerful station identification, UNStudio has “made use of city design rules to create public areas that improve the city expertise on the pedestrian scale and construct new habits for the Doha neighborhood”. Targeted totally on producing an environment friendly and dependable service that encourages using public transport in a rustic the place most individuals depend on automobiles, the completely different interventions are immediately recognizable within the metropolis, as a everlasting reminder of the choice system, by the introduction of varied scales of identification for the consumer: community identification, line identification, and station identification.
The celebration of arriving and departing has at all times been discovered within the design of stations. For the Doha Metro Community we devised an adaptive parametric system which creates open, mild and welcoming interiors for every of the person stations. Conventional Qatari architectural options are reinterpreted to include new, transformative qualities which seize daylight and direct this into the interiors, creating uplifting and luminous atmospheres. — Ben van Berkel.
Drawing inspiration from the context, whereas introducing modernization and preservation, the idea is impressed by the notion of Caravanserais, “which have been inns with enclosed courts that served as gathering and resting locations on historical commerce routes”.Utilizing current parts discovered within the structure of the area, the challenge reinterprets Vaulted Areas by a recent method. Furthermore, whereas “the exteriors reference the monolithic power of outdated Qatari structure, the inside areas create a radiant impact of motion and fluidity”. Actually, by using uniquely Qatari ornamentation and materials palette, giant inside areas are divided and pedestrians are simply guided.
By means of the manufacturing of a design guide and with using adaptive parametric design, it has been attainable to create a design with many variants, but one which maintains a coherent identification all through all the stations. On this manner, we are able to mix native contextual variations inside an general identification and parametrically adapt bodily elements reminiscent of wayfinding, daylight penetration, passenger flows, constructive parts and so on. in a posh however extraordinarily disciplined system. — Ben van Berkel.
Qatar Built-in Railway, Doha, Qatar, 2012 – 2019 (Part 1)
Shopper: Qatar Railways Firm Location: Doha, Qatar Architect: UNStudio Standing: first part accomplished Construction, MEP: RHDHV Lighting engineering: AG Licht Wayfinding: Mijksenaar Passenger stream evaluation: MIC – Mobility in Chain Facade engineering: Inhabit Acoustic Engineering: Arup Hearth and life security: AECOM Technical Panorama Recommendation: AECOM
