Neo-Mudéjar Station Hall: Brick Shell and Iron Roof

The interior hall of a train station. The surrounding walls are exposed reddish-orange brickwork, with a sequence of blind arches and protruding geometric patterns, and the lower section is a 1.2-meter-high hand-painted glazed tile wainscot; the opening leading to the platform is a large brick horseshoe arch. Looking up, however, reveals something entirely different: exposed cast-iron columns and lattice trusses support an entire glass roof, the ironwork painted dark green, with sunlight streaming down from above. The historical shell and industrial structure are directly juxtaposed without transition. The floor is a geometric paving of terracotta and glazed tiles. Avoid: making the roof also historical in style, cladding the iron structure with brick, having the two vocabularies mimic each other, omitting the large-span glass roof.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座車站的室內大廳。四周的牆是裸露的橘紅磚砌,有盲拱序列與凸出的幾何圖案,下段是一米二高的手繪釉磚牆裙;通往月台的是一道大的磚砌馬蹄拱。抬頭卻是完全不同的東西:外露的鑄鐵柱與格構桁架撐起一整片玻璃屋頂,鐵件漆成深綠色,陽光從上方灑下。歷史的外殼與工業的結構直接並置,沒有過渡。地面是赤陶與釉磚的幾何鋪面。避免:把屋頂也做成歷史樣式、用磚包覆鐵構、讓兩種語彙互相模仿、省略大跨距的玻璃屋頂。