Ambiances In Station - The Role Played By Acoustics
Regular paper
SYSTRA
Tuesday 2 june, 2015, 17:40 - 18:00
0.9 Athens (118)
Abstract:
Historically, stations are built around the trains and not necessarily the
passengers. The main and often unique objective of a station remains taking or
leaving a train. In the recent years, stations are more complex structures with
a support to inter-modalities: connections with urban trains, buses… And for the
most important stations, they also provide services to the passengers, so the
time spent within the station is profitable for the passengers and the owners of
the buildings.
Architecture plays an important role in the design of the station. Usually
comfort parameters for the passengers are known and specified during the process
of conception. They may also be considered a little too late, which may generate
an incoherent interior design. Acoustics, lightings and passenger information,
which are critical for the safety and also participate to the comfort of the
passengers, might be difficult to be included in harmony with the architecture.
Comfort is nowadays a notion that is expected by the passengers and becomes
mandatory.
This paper first described a process that has been designed to include the
ambiances of the station within the conception phases. It identifies the main
actors and their relationships at each critical phase of the design. Then, more
than comfort, the paper will present some clues to build a passenger experience.
It will show how the various spaces of the station are studied to provide a
general feeling of well-being. Finally, a detailed example of this approach will
be given with the acoustic modality. It will show the acoustic criteria that are
considered to build ambiances in coherency with the architectures and the uses
of the station.