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PRESS RELEASE

HIGH SPEED
TRAIN STATION
NAPOLI-AFRAGOLA
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
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HIGH SPEED TRAIN STATION NAPOLI-AFRAGOLA

[NAPLES, ITALY]

2003 - 2008
PROGRAM:

Train Station for high speed and regional services. Facilities for bus, taxi and car parking; retail and civic; rail administration, police and fire services.

CLIENT:

TAV s.p.a.
Treno Alta Velocita via Mantova, 24
00198 Rome
ITALY

ARCHITECT:

Design

Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher

Project Architects / Managing

Filippo Innocenti [Zaha Hadid]
Paola Cattarin [Zaha Hadid]

Structural Engineer and Geotechnics
Environmental Engineer
Landscape Design
Costing

Adams Kara Taylor [London, UK]
Max Fordham [London, UK]
Gross Max [London, UK]
Studio Miele [Napoli, Italy]
Interplan 2 SRL [Napoli, Italy]
Macchiaroli & Partners SRL [Napoli, Italy]

CONSULTANTS:

Fire Safety
SIZE/AREA :

20,000 m2

The New High Speed Station Napoli Afragola is a bridge above the tracks. The key challenge of the architectural scheme is to create a well organized transport interchange that can simultaneously serve as a new landmark to announce the approach to
Naples - thus a new gateway to the city. The concept of the bridge emerges from the idea of enlarging the overhead concourse, required to access the various platforms, to such a degree that it can become the main passenger concourse itself.
Providing an urbanized public link across the tracks, the task is to give expression to the imposition of a new through-station that can also act as the nucleus of a new proposed business park linking the various surrounding towns. The bridge concept further allows two strips of extended park-land to move openly through the site alongside the tracks opening and connecting the site to the surrounding landscape and business park.
The architectural language proposed, geared towards the articulation of movement, is pursued further within