HyperHub — station of the future

HyperHub stacks different forms of public transport on top of one another to free up ground level for public functions and to make the most of the surface taken up by the many bundles of infrastructure. The six-storey station — designed for the Amsterdam of 2100 — connects Schiphol, the Zuidas and Amsterdam South-East with national and international destinations.

From bottom to top: the A9 motorway tunnel with parking for autonomous vehicles and the bus terminal in the basement, public functions at ground level, commercial functions on the first floor, and above those the platforms for metro, train and hyperloop.

The design is based on four core values drawn from structuralism, translated into a hexagonal space frame: characteristic hexagons that echo the honeycomb housing blocks of the Bijlmer, the honeycomb as the strongest cell structure in nature, built up modularly and designed to be printed on site in carbon elements.

The design was developed into a physical 3D-printed model weighing 7.2 kilograms — 915 hours of printing, at times running five of the largest 3D printers on the market at once.