The opportunity to design of a Bus Terminal in Trancoso, city with a relevant historical patrimony in Portugal, emerges as a space to reflect over one of the most responsible systems among the contemporary society development, the Transportation.
A bus station is a part of network that webs various places together and lets people to travel. This project reveals a congregation between multiple programs of multiple speeds, allowing people to circulate, sit and watch the buses, moving or stopped.
Here there is a primordial goal of enhancing circulation and visibility. The distorted display of the terminal promotes a notion of spatial amplitude that does not block the visibility towards the exterior, while the circulation reveals as continuous and independent, both for people and buses.
In the end, the intention is for the bus station to become a successful public space. To attract a public crowd, the roof terrace is designed to be a large open space looking out towards the castle and connecting the cafe. These public spaces are literally a continuation of a sidewalk from both sides, allowing an easy uninterrupted circulation throughout the building.
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A bus station is a part of network that webs various places together and lets people to travel. This project reveals a congregation between multiple programs of multiple speeds, allowing people to circulate, sit and watch the buses, moving or stopped.
Here there is a primordial goal of enhancing circulation and visibility. The distorted display of the terminal promotes a notion of spatial amplitude that does not block the visibility towards the exterior, while the circulation reveals as continuous and independent, both for people and buses.
In the end, the intention is for the bus station to become a successful public space. To attract a public crowd, the roof terrace is designed to be a large open space looking out towards the castle and connecting the cafe. These public spaces are literally a continuation of a sidewalk from both sides, allowing an easy uninterrupted circulation throughout the building.
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Despite its non regular geometry, the building is integrated among the surroundings, negotiating the proximity between the City’s medieval defensive walls and the surrounding buildings. It’s scale outcomes out of these impositions (with a max. constant height of 9 meters) and it’s geometry from the researched circulation diagrams, intending to germinate a coherent public space.
The programmatic functions needed to the operation of a Bus Terminal are contained on the ground floor, like ticket offices, waiting rooms or boarding decks, always oriented towards the Castle. On the upper level was developed with this same orientation a square, a public open space that serves also the cafeteria (facing south, with view into a natural existing vale). Simultaneously with the external access circulations, there are also established internal connections that allow for the building to work as a whole, connecting the ticket areas, entrance and waiting room directly with the cafeteria.
The programmatic functions needed to the operation of a Bus Terminal are contained on the ground floor, like ticket offices, waiting rooms or boarding decks, always oriented towards the Castle. On the upper level was developed with this same orientation a square, a public open space that serves also the cafeteria (facing south, with view into a natural existing vale). Simultaneously with the external access circulations, there are also established internal connections that allow for the building to work as a whole, connecting the ticket areas, entrance and waiting room directly with the cafeteria.
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