One of the latest projects by Abalos + Sentkiewicz Architects is the train station Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. Its funtion is that of providing a transportation center, public parks and housing developments of different typologies. As said us one of the office architects, Juan Enriquez, it is a complex project that is part of a larger and with different scales projects ranging from urban infrastructure, landscape till architecture.

The underground station project emerges abroad with the access areas and through the skylights, polygonal pavilions that illuminate the platforms through circular apertures using a simple interesting mirror system to introduce natural light. The most characteristic is the inside covered by a aluminum skin faceted plate on the frame. A good project, below we bring you the memory text by authors.
 

The railway station has been designed in accordance with the urban role assigned in the proposal for the international competition and the urban planning and landscape further developed. The station serves as a starting point of a new urban project, which re-establishes the connectivity between the North and South of the city and leads to a large public park where the roof is an integrated part giving its geometry and topography to the volume.

All Stations in surface usually mean an abrupt interruption of urban continuity. Precisely, the urban element that is destined to unite and bring together the city with the territory, leaves a void in the city involving urban and social segregation. The opportunity to rethink the typology of the station that the burial of the tracks means, should be a shift in the form of conceiving them. Intermodal Stations are an opportunity to transform the city, creating public spaces, developing green belts, promoting pedestrian and bicycle mobility; an opportunity to create a new topography to intensify the experience of the city as a collective process.

What makes the project unique is having faced from its beginnings with an intensity divided between infrastructure and urbanism, landscape and architecture, ecology and economy; with a whole model of management that seeks quality and innovation in all moments of process and attends both quantitative and qualitative aspects. In this sense it may be said that it is a pioneering experience both on landform buildings as well as ecological urbanism.

 

Urban planning, Intermodal station, urban park and five housing towers, Logroño, 2008-2011
 

International Restricted by invitation. First Price (2006)
Client: LIF 2002,SA (Ayuntamiento de Logroño, Comunidad autónoma de La Rioja, ADIF)
LIF 2002, SA Technical Direction: Mª Cruz Gutiérrez
Location: Logroño, La Rioja, Spain.
Program: Special Plan of Interior Reform, approved in (2006-2009): Train station, Bus station, Parking, Housing, Park and Urbanization.
Plot area: 213Ha. Train station area: 8.000sqm.. Platform areas: 19.000sqm.. Parking area: 18.000sqm.. Bus station area: 10.800sqm.. Urbanization area: 145.000m2. Housing area (Towers): 41.250 sqm. Housing area (Other planning housing): 83.750sqm..
First Phase Budget (Burial + Train Station): € 108.000.000
Bus Station Budget: € 20.000.000
Status: Transportation Hub completed, park and urbanization completed.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AND URBAN PLANNING

Client: LIF 2002, SA.
LIF 2002, SA Technical Direction: Mª Cruz Gutiérrez.
Project Direction: Abalos + Sentkiewicz arquitectos (Iñaki Ábalos, Alfonso Miguel, Renata Sentkiewicz).
Collaborators: Yeray Brito, Aaron Forest, Pablo de la Hoz, Ismael Martín, Laura Torres, Fernando Rodríguez, Haizea Aguirre, Elena Rodríguez, Verónica Meléndez.
Landscape: Ábalos + Sentkiewicz (Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz).
Urban collaborators: ARUP (concurso) / Ezquiaga Arquitectura Sociedad y Territorio SL (PERI).
Infographics: Neograma (Luis Cabrejas), Aaron Forrest, Pablo de la Hoz, Ismael Martín.
Model: Jorge Queipo.

RAILWAY WORKS/HIGHSPEED TRAIN STATION

Cliente: LIF 2002, SA/ADIF.
LIF 2002, SA Technical Direction: Mª Cruz Gutiérrez.
Ingineering: UTE Ineco-Sener.
Project Direction: Francisco Cifuentes (Ineco), Pelayo Suárez (Sener).
Architecture: Abalos + Sentkiewicz arquitectos.
Architectural Project Directors: Iñaki Ábalos, Alfonso Miguel, Renata Sentkiewicz.
Collaborators: Jorge Álvarez-Builla, Yeray Brito, Aaron Forest, Victor Garzón, Pablo de la Hoz, Ismael Martín, Laura Torres,  Rodrigo Rieiro, José Rodríguez.
Structural Engineer + M/E: UTE Ineco-Sener.
Project management: INECO (Eduardo Muñoz) / TYPSA (Ricardo Castejón).
Architectural Advisory Steering: Iñaki Ábalos. 
Builder: SACYR.
Landscape: Agronomy Architecture (Teresa Galí-Izard) / Ábalos + Sentkiewicz (Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz).
Infographics: Neograma (Luis Cabrejas).

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Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos, AS+. Madrid-based architecture practice was founded and led by Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz in 2006. The practice has local offices in Cambridge (USA) and Shanghai (China).

Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz have taught in prestigious university centres such as GSD-Harvard University, Architectural Association, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and ETSAM, combining academic, professional and research activities. Iñaki Ábalos has been Chair of the Department of Architecture at GSD Harvard University and RIBA International Fellowship 2009 (Royal Institute of British Architects). Abalos is currently Chaired Professor at ETSAM.

The projects and built work of Abalos+Sentkiewicz AS+ are internationally recognized and have been the subject of individual exhibitions and many collective exhibitions in the most prestigious centres: GSD Harvard, AA-London, Pavillon de l’Arsenale-Paris, MoMA-NYC (5 built works in three different exhibitions: Light construction, ON Site, Groundswell), Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, etc. This prestige also reflects in the 40 awards received (25 of them first prizes) in architecture competitions. Another 46 awards have been given to different research and design activities, 19 of them to Built Works. Their professional work has been collected in 12 monographs and their theoretical work has been compiled through 12 books. Critic William Curtis has chosen one work of the firm, the Pavilion in the Retiro Park, as one of the three best works built in Spain during the last 30 years.

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Iñaki Abalos, (San Sebastián, 1956) graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid ETSAM(1978), before going on to become a Doctor of Architecture, PHD (1991), and Professor of Architectural Project Design at he ETSAM. In 2009 he was Kenzo Tange Professor in Harvard University and since 2010 has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Design (GSD).

A founder member of Ábalos&Herreros (1984-2007) and of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos (since 2007), he has sat on the scientific committee of the Study Center of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal (since 2005) and on the management board of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture (since 2008).

He is the director of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos (Madrid, since 2002), and in 2009 the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) awarded him its international membership. He has taught at the Architectural Association (London), the EPF (Lausanne) and at the universities of Columbia, Princeton and Cornell.

Ábalos is the author of Le Corbusier. Rascacielos (Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 1988), Tower and office (The MIT Press, Cambridge [Mass.], 2003) and Natural-artificial (ExitLMI, Madrid, 1999), with Juan Herreros; and The good life (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2000), the two volumes of Atlas pintoresco (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2005 and 2007), and the monograph Alejandro de la Sota (Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, Barcelona, 2009; with Josep Llinàs and Moisés Puente). He also edited Naturaleza y artificio (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona,2009).

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Renata Sentkiewicz (Kolo, 1972) graduated as an architect from Cracow Polytechnic. Since 2007 she has been Associate Professor of Architectural Project Design at the ETSAM and of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos (since 2002).

In 1999 she began working as an assistant at Ábalos&Herreros and in 2001 was made an associate. She is a founder member of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos and a member of the Zero Energy Alliance (since 2009).

She has given workshops and seminars in architecture and landscape in different international centres, principally the Berlage Institute, the IUAV in Venice, the Festarch Cerdeña, the EURAU, the COAC, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the CEU.

She is the editor of Cuatro observatorios de la energía (COA Canarias, Santa Cruz de La Palma, 2007).

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Published on: October 26, 2012
Cite: "Highspeed Train Station by Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/highspeed-train-station-abalossentkiewicz-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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