BERLIN HYPERLOOP STATION

DARS Studio | Adib Khaeez

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Adjacent to the Tempelhof airport field, the Berlin Hyperloop Station is a large scale mixed-use project that accommodates a central hub for a new mode of transportation. Beyond exploring the known and unknown design requirements of this very new building program and typology, the theoretical and methodological architectural research behind the project is based upon the integration of geometric continuity and discrete systems. Therefore the core design research objective of the Berlin Hyperloop Station project is twofold.

In a macro or urban scale, sets of computational design strategies are developed and implemented for form-finding, which are informing the architectural massing, configurations, and orientations. Towards the meso-to-micro scales, the process employs several digital modeling techniques to merge and intertwine continuous double curvature surfaces and volumes to a discretized world, which is then coded and controlled by a generative system based on velocity fields. Therefore, from the early stages in this iterative process, the materialization process is feedback to the macro-scale form-finding procedure. The emergent aesthetic introduces new architectural and geometric qualities where the two discrete and continuous systems clash and blend.

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