Zaha hadid railway station
Zaha Hadid Architects
Archive:
- Innsbruck, Austria
- 2004 – 2007
- INKB (Innsbrucker Nordkettenbahnen GmbH) Public Private Partnership
- Built
- 2500m2
‘Shell & Shadow’: a unique architectural language of fluidity inspired by natural ice formations, for stations along Innsbruck’s northern chain of mountains. Lightweight organic roof structures float on concrete plinths, their soft shapes and contours creating an artificial landscape that describes the movement and circulation within.
The brief called for the design of four stations along cable railway tracks leading to Innsbruck’s northern chain of mountains. Each station had its own unique context, topography, altitude and circulation and adaptation to these specific site conditions was critical to the design approach – while maintaining a coherent overall architectural language.
We studied natural phenomena such as glacial moraines and ice movements to develop a fluid language of natural ice formations, like a fro Zaha hadid personal life.