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Station Hyllie

This is a project by Metro Arkitekter and it is located at Malmö, Sweden. Project's program: Train station building. There are fourteen images for Station Hyllie.

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Project details

Project name: Station Hyllie
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Program: Train station building
Area: Project Size: 10,000 m2
Year: Completion: 2010
Client: Jernhusen AB
Project by: Metro Arkitekter
Team: Principal Designer: Claes R Janson • Design Team: Ola Arnholm, Carl Kylberg, Anna-Karin Joelsson, Jörgen Åkerlund
Others: Contractor: NCC

Project images

Designer's statement

Hyllie is the first station you reach when travelling by train from Copenhagen's Kastrup airport and is therefore Malmö's gateway to Copenhagen. It is a regional and local train station with four tracks and two platforms.

This is no traditional station building — we have been working with other elements instead. The large round roof (diameter 45 m) — lit from below using uplights — hovers like a UFO above the station entrance. The roof is perforated by 52 round lantern lights which allow daylight to penetrate right down to the platforms, thereby eliminating any sense of an underground station. Daylight and lines of sight have acted as important parameters for creating a safe environment.

Bartenbach LichtLabor of Innsbruck are responsible for the lighting concept. The artistic decoration has been carried out by Kristina Matusch of Malmö.