The first phase of the late Zaha Hadid‘s Napoli Afragola station, has been inaugurated by the Italian prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni. The high-speed rail service connecting Bari and Reggio Calabria with the north of Italy and Europe also enables goods and passengers to access the southern ports of Gioia Tauro, Taranto, Bari, Brindisi, Palermo and Augusta.
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“Any great country needs great projects that are a leap forward,” explains Gentiloni. “the new station at Afragola is the foundation of the infrastructure program that promotes economic development in the south.”
In the Zaha Hadid architect’s design was used a trademark concrete, that makes the entries project a specific composition that provides optimum performance.
The building’s curved structural concrete elements were built using technologies initially developed during the construction of the MAXXI museum in Rome: wooden formwork replaced by prefabricated steel units, and double-curves realized with formwork created from CNC-milled polystyrene models.
The station aims to connect the communities found on either side of the railway. Internally, the configuration minimizes distances for those embarking and alighting at the station, creating a series of fluid circulation routes.
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