Architecture plays a crucial role in the transformation of urban spaces related to mobility, defining new configurations for the city in transit. Nowadays, shifts in the ways of moving advocate for a revised approach to spatial design to support the evolving patterns of mobility, including the renovated architectures for intermodal hubs, slow-mobility facilities and stations, heritage of the great authorial tradition of railway, maritime and airport stations.
Formerly perceived as mere transit platforms, parking lots, or gateways to the city, they should be reimagined as nodes, intersections, of urban liveability integrated into the urban fabric as open public space: dynamic cores for the definition of contemporary spaces for interaction and exchange.
Designed by Rem Koolhaas « the Zeebrugge terminal was an early warning about the impact that structure (and to a less visible extent, services) would have on the series of “large” buildings. » (1995, p. 601)
Keywords: intermodal nodes, mobility hubs, facilities