CITYSCAPE CONSIDERATIONS
Our proposal is aimed to organize the Tampere Station area more effectively in terms of flows and connections. It is also aimed to create a new identity to this crucial area. Our proposal defines the rail yard borders more accurately while providing safer and more comfortable underground passageways connecting the western and eastern sides of the City. These passageways have now being fully integrated into a new underground shopping centre, so they are continuously supported by active frontage. A light canopy structure has been proposed to cover the platforms. It is designed to provide shelter for passengers but also to use the structural properties of folded planes to produce a spatial and formal effect, reminiscent of the texture of the Rapids, which will provide a very distinctive identity to the area. The bus station is linked with the platforms by the same canopy, creating continuity of shelter between the different transport modes.