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Cable Car Station at Expo Zaragoza

This is a project by Vicens + Ramos Arquitectos and it is located at Zaragoza, Spain. Project's program: Arrival and departure station of the lift to Expo Zaragoza 2008. There are fourteen images for Cable Car Station at Expo Zaragoza.

: © Pablo Vicens

Project details

Project name: Cable Car Station at Expo Zaragoza
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Program: Arrival and departure station of the lift to Expo Zaragoza 2008
Area: Site Area: 1,700 m2 • Building Area: 2,533.25 m2
Year: Project Year: 2007-2008
Project by: Vicens + Ramos Arquitectos
Team: Principal Designers:: Ignacio Vicens y Hualde, José Antonio Ramos Abengózar • Contributors: Fernando Gil, Desiree Gonzalez, Tibor Martin, Raul Rodriguez, Joaquin Esperon, Pablo Gutierrez, Romina Barbieri, Patricia Elena

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Designer's statement

The arrival and departure station of the lift to the Expo Zaragoza 2008 is an exempt building that maintains relations with the environment in which it is located, although its exterior appearance, the skin is smooth and tight but permeable, suggesting lights, shadows and textures.

With its parameter in mind, the building is coated with a sheet metal facade deployé diamond with a chrome coated steel type finish. It generates a scrim with different transparencies, textures, lights and shades in harmony with the intended purpose of the building and its environment Expo Zaragoza 2008, like a garden pavilion that dilutes its limits by incorporating new elements to the environmental quality as greenhouse technology.