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Gare Kircheberg
Kircheberg, Luxemburg
2010
Parc des Expositions by Francisco Mangado
The meaning that architecture can origin in a city is not necessarily or exclusively connected to the architectonic object.
The objects should be surrounded by a quality treatment of what is public, of public space and, in this particular case, by the visual, functional and formal relations that should be established between the two buildings to project.
In many cases, it is the quality of public space, its configuration and treatment, that really is capable of attributing urban and symbolic meaning to the part of the city that is being object of intervention.
This is a very particular moment, in which it is evident that, apart from the “qualities” that buildings may possess, what really matters and is truly important it’s the available space between them, and it is the generosity and inherent quality of that (public) space what allows to “clarify” its presence.
Architecture, in terms of meaning as we’ve been referring to, may now affirm itself; the buildings, important in their programmatic and institutional dimension, may now develop spatially, formally, and functionally, with guarantees of significance and effectiveness, avoiding what could, otherwise, create a sensation of excessive density, or of an invasive proximity, in which none of them could reveal itself with the importance attributed by their public condition.
