Night Train Hub Berlin

Night Train Hub Berlin: Connecting Berlin with the rest of Europe

Schipper, Broer (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van Zalingen, J.M. (mentor)
Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee)
Söylev, Y. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

2024-03-21

The night train hub Berlin is a station specifically designed for night train travel. This would be for a future scenario where long-distance travel throughout Europe is done by night trains. The design is located in the east of Berlin where Station Berlin Lichtenberg is now. Currently, it is an underutilized station. The main reason for this future of night train travel would be sustainability. To convince people to travel sustainable, comfort is an important theme. The design tries to balance comfort on one hand and sustainability on the other hand. Comfort is integrated in the design of the station, through the program of the building but also materialization and the architectural theme of light. The latter is in important since the design also deals with the time-specificness of night train travel. With trains always departing in the evening and arriving in the morning.

The new station design has three entrances and a square which covers the train tracks to add public space to the city of Berlin. Next to that the design contains a central station hall which houses a lounge and a capsule hotel. This will be the first impression people have of Berlin when they arrive by night train.

Night trains
Berlin
Comfort
Sustainability
Train Station
Lichtenberg
Architecture

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