Santiago de Compostela Bus Station, Chile Architecture, Architect, Location, HPA Design Images
Santiago de Compostela Bus Station in Chile
8 Apr 2022
Design: IDOM
Location: Avenida de Clara Campoamor s/n, 15702 Santiago de Compostela ? A Coruña

Photos: Aitor Ortiz
Santiago de Compostela Bus Station, Chile
Site

The Atlantic axis that runs through Galicia from north to south runs through Santiago de Compostela halfway up a slope running parallel to the river Sar. In order to establish the railway station in the mid-twentieth century, it was necessary to create a wide esplanade for the railway yard, a marked embankment stretching towards the city and important landfills on the lowlands of the River Sar. From that moment on, the railway limited the growth of the city to the south, constituting a de facto barrier. The layout of the current railway station, responding to a typical station on the line, in which the passenger building is located parallel to the tracks that are covered with a metal canopy.
Intermodality

The arrival of High Speed to the city has been accompanied by the transformation of the current railway station into an intermodal station, fast becoming the central node of public transport in the city and its area of influence, by offering the user the possibility of combining different modes of public transport (rail and bus) quickly and efficiently at a location very close to the city Centre.

Together with this transformation, the opportunity arose to over...