..News ..Portfolio ..Exhibitions ..Publications ..Firm ..Contact	Train Station Hamburg-Altona 2000 – 2006 The urban context is marked by strong contrasts during the past. The new station complex has an important role in the future development of Altona. The new building should work as an integrative element and at the same time define a new scale for future projects in the area. This is not achieved by trying to exclaim a new order but by carefully interweaving the torn structure using existing elements and strengthening positive ones. The building-complex of the new station-centre Altona works as a point of functional intersection. The building knotted into the town structure both under and above ground becomes the central meeting-point frequented from all sides, connecting the public spaces and extending them. The 10 meters deep façade along ‘Paul Nevermann Platz’ creates an impression of transparency and depth. This relates to the terminus behind it and functions as a permeable zone in front of a future quarter build on the existing rails. The permeable structure of the new complex functions as a screen for the multiplicity of the surrounding and reflects its inner life. The spatial and functional transition between inside and outside is linearly flowing. The linear urban green of the ‘Platz der Republik’ in the north-south direction is continued as a hanging garden inside of the building. A multi-layer space is created through superposition of STRUCTURE with URBAN SPACE – FUNCTION – CONSTRUCTION – MOVEMENT – GREEN – PICTURES – INFORMATION The transparency between the different layers makes this superposition visible to the outside. Back to Portfolio