Station20 is situated at an advantageous crossroad of 4 urban infrastructure lines: car line, metro line, pedestrian line, mechanical line. Or else a city street, the subway, a latent park, the heating pipes. 4 or 2x2 lines crossing one another. Station20 is already a Cross, a dynamic, infrastructure cross. This just needs to be revealed: the proposal stands as the emerging intensification of the crossing infrastructure forces by means of simplicity, subtraction, transparency and diversity. Simplicity is attained by the preservation of the footprint of the platforms and its reproduction to the south of the heating pipes line: the pipes are slightly moved to the northern side of the pedestrian zone and the Entrance Hall level keeps the outline and the structural development of the lower one. With minor changes, the standard columns and their spans are preserved, advocating for the economy of the first point of the new proposal: a strategic simplicity.  Following the linearity of the plan, two lateral zones are subtracted from the Entrance Hall’s roof at each side of the street, permitting a profitable mingling of those two public levels. Two main entrances of different character also occur: one in the west, a long staircase that interacts with the new curvilinear piazza and one more in the east that is protected by an equally curvilinear, green shelter which spans the full length of the station, hovering above the pedestrian zone and thus also offering a symbolic entrance for the new transversal green space. The subtraction strategy is furthermore applied to this green area: two long excisions of the pedestrian zone create two ramps that smoothly link the interior of the station with the new green area. A curvilinear row of trees between the northern limit of the intervention and the piazza entrance complements the three main cuts that bring green, light and air into the interior.

Station20 is situated at an advantageous crossroad of 4 urban infrastructure lines: car line, metro line, pedestrian line, mechanical line. Or else a city street, the subway, a latent park, the heating pipes. 4 or 2x2 lines crossing one another. Station20 is already a Cross, a dynamic, infrastructure cross. This just needs to be revealed: the proposal stands as the emerging intensification of the crossing infrastructure forces by means of simplicity, subtraction, transparency and diversity. Simplicity is attained by the preservation of the footprint of the platforms and its reproduction to the south of the heating pipes line: the pipes are slightly moved to the northern side of the pedestrian zone and the Entrance Hall level keeps the outline and the structural development of the lower one. With minor changes, the standard columns and their spans are preserved, advocating for the economy of the first point of the new proposal: a strategic simplicity.  Following the linearity of the plan, two lateral zones are subtracted from the Entrance Hall’s roof at each side of the street, permitting a profitable mingling of those two public levels. Two main entrances of different character also occur: one in the west, a long staircase that interacts with the new curvilinear piazza and one more in the east that is protected by an equally curvilinear, green shelter which spans the full length of the station, hovering above the pedestrian zone and thus also offering a symbolic entrance for the new transversal green space. The subtraction strategy is furthermore applied to this green area: two long excisions of the pedestrian zone create two ramps that smoothly link the interior of the station with the new green area. A curvilinear row of trees between the northern limit of the intervention and the piazza entrance complements the three main cuts that bring green, light and air into the interior.