ZAHA HADID . INNSBRUCK

Nordpark Cable Railway, Innsbruck Austria
The project contains the design of four stations along the cable railway tracks leading up to Innsbruck’s northern chain of mountains. Adaptation to the specifi csite conditions in various altitudes while articulating a coherent overall architectural language is critical to this design approach. Two contrasting elements “Shell & Shadow”generate each station’s spatial quality. A lightweight organic roof structure fl oats on top of a concrete plinth. The artifi cial landscape functions as a relief in which various movements and circulations are inscribed. Looking at the Roof Shell’s fl uid shapes and soft contours, one might be reminded on natural phenomena such as glacier movements:

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Zaha Hadid