NON-STOP-STATION

Master Thesis Project - 2022

A New Proposal for East-Side Milan Railway Embankment

Supervisor: Andrea Tartaglia

Academic Project - Individual Milan, Italy

In this research project the presence of railways in cities and the inevitable consequences they bring to urban area has been critically rethought through the lens of architecture. Railway primarily is considered a mobility infrastructure and one of the most significant part of transportation system in modern cities. Nevertheless, their form and function is fundamentally based on technical codes for trains and mobility system. This coupled with essential constructive codes, make railways a series of generic objects bearing the same look all over the world. Therefore, irrespective of the urban area they are located, the spatial issues created by railways tend to fall into the same categories of problems. Hence this thesis tries to turn railway into a project of architecture initiating a critical analysis on the railway in East-Side Milan following by an alternative typology for railway embankment in city.

The main issue addressed by this project is the problem of typology in architecture combined with the most important aspects of mobility that create a basis by which a meta project is envisioned. This project which is conceived in a conceptual site creates the basis for the final project dealing with the railway in east-side Milan. In this proposal all the theories and hypothesis discussed in the primary analysis have been realized in two different zones of east-side Milan to understand how the new proposed typology is able to transform the real situation of the railway in a city like Milan. Non-Stop Station, an alternative typology for the railway in the city. As a mobility infrastructure in an urban area and considered a primary element in the city, railway consists of a series of buildings interconnect all together. In this thesis by proposing an alternative reality I try to envision the railway not an engineering structure providing mobility services but a infinite building that is engaged within the urban context. Railway in East-Side Milan as the initial case study has been critically analyzed throughout the lens of architecture. Strong linearity, brutal divisiveness, mono-functionality are all results of architecture’s ignorance toward railway typology. This project envisions a new possible typology for railway formed by a certain urban archetype. Nevertheless transposes the themes of Human and machine through the symbol of the house. Non-stop station is a house for mobility system. The iconic forms used in this project are repeated in an infinite manner stripped of their iconicity or any conventions related to their primary definitions, meaning and scale. Yet they deploy the familiarity that comes with these forms. This image demonstrates a possible reality for the railway typology in a conceptual site after carefully combining the hypothetical orders extracted from the railway and the architectural definitions of typology.

For complete information on this project check my thesis booklet on: https://issuu.com/benyaminnemati/docs/master_thesis_booklet_square_issue