Tracery

A shiny, shimmering concourse runs like a long worm through the Swiss city Worb. The architects Beat Mathys and Ursula Stücheli has succeeded in this 130m long hall to harmoniously integrate into the village. Not least carries the extraordinary façade of the long sides at - a wattle made of chrome steel bands. The tapes are eight inches wide and are led by two layers, the support structure of concrete columns. A band is on the inside, one on the outside of the supports. In the middle of every second column field, the metal strips are connected by turnbuckles and result from a misalignment a tissue-like image.
The hall is at the same station, Zugremise and Parking: During the day the Hall serves as the final stop on the route Worb village and the main station Bern. park the cars in the top floor of the many commuters who drive each day to Bern. At night, park in the hall the trains. These roller doors are at entry and exit down left to protect the trains from vandalism.

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Concourse RBS Worb

Architects: smarch - Beat Mathys and Ursula Stücheli, Bern, www.smarch.ch
Längsseitenbekleidung development in cooperation with: Conzett Bronzini Gartmann, Chur, cbg-ing.ch
Location: Station Square 2, 3076 Worb, Switzerland, site map
Completion: 2003
Photos: Claudio Moser, Dominique and Thomas Uldry Jantscher, www.jantscher.ch

The station is open to the public.

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