EUROPE 40 UNDER 40 AWARD
Best Emerging Young Architects & Designers In Europe
XIAN TRAIN STATION
Xi'an, China
Project Competition
December, 2019
This new train terminal will be at the crossroads of the old and the new, new lives, new stories.
A new railway terminal will define the meeting point between East and West. It will be located at the end of the Silk Road. For centuries, generations of geographers and merchants had considered this place as the most remote destination. This new railway terminal will be at the crossroads of the old and the new, the Yin and Yang of the opposite poles that generate the future of human society day by day.
Here, millions of paths will cross. Millions of journeys will begin and end. Millions of lives, expectations and hopes will meet in the frenetic and unconscious atmosphere of places related to travel. This is because a station is more than just a platform, travel is more than an experience. After all, the journey is the most real and genuine metaphor of the human condition.