{"id":1960,"date":"2016-06-02T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2016-06-16T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:23:36","slug":"an-above-ground-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/an-above-ground-station\/","title":{"rendered":"An above-ground station"},"content":{"rendered":"

The train halt owes its name to the new Los Jardines de H\u00e9rcules development, a collection of 2,000 dwellings recently built 9 kilometres to the south of Seville. With the entry into service of this station of line C1, located on the Seville-C\u00e1diz railway line, users can now reach the centre of Seville in just 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

The new facilities are located to the north of the former La Salud station, and 120 commuter trains of C1 and C5 lines serve it every day, favouring fluid and rapid communication with Seville centre, from whose station \u2013Sevilla-Santa Justa\u2013 travellers can link up with the rest of Renfe services (commuter railway lines, medium-distance trains and AVE).<\/p>\n

Ineco carried out the drafting of the building project and all of the works inherent in the management of the works and coordination of health and safety, which include the elements of the raised station and its access, the zone of shelters and platforms and the technical services building. Its peculiar design, which places the accesses and the hall of the station on a walkway in the shape of an irregular spatial tube, has required complex execution and management work. Thanks to its such unique geometry we were able to not modify the course of the railway line or its basic infrastructure, which allowed us to maintain the continual service of passengers and freight throughout the whole execution of the train halt.<\/p>\n

Access to the hall is gained through automatic doors with a remote control mechanism and it is fitted with air conditioning. The hall contains self-service ticket machines, access control turning machines of a special width and the furniture and signage. The starting state for its design involves very limiting environmental conditions in relation to an already pre-determined structure, shape, dimensions and opacities. From this regular structure, the \u201cgame\u201d of dislocating its structural joints begins, both vertically and horizontally, until a balance of the whole is achieved, resulting in an irregular structural frame, faceted in triangles.<\/p>\n

Ineco has carried out the drafting of the building project and the works inherent in the management of the works and coordination of health and safety and management<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This peculiar geometry of the walkway is developed along a transverse axis on the train tracks. The space has a closed and covered area \u2013where the hall is located\u2013 and another open and covered zone, that leads to the access disembarkation area and the connection with the two platforms. As such, it has an uneven geometric shape, wider in the zone of the hall. The walkway is supported vertically on the masts of the lifts and on the intermediate pillars. These masts are also the horizontal supports of the structure for the loads of wind and earthquakes.<\/p>\n