This unique train station was designed to meet the impossible challenge of creating not just a passenger station but also a sheltered building against frequent bombing. And yet, it should first be a welcoming and pleasant facility, serving the public along a newly constructed rail track connecting the town of Sderot for the first time to the rail network.

The 3,000 sq.m station is composed of a passenger hall, a 100 m long pedestrian passage, partly under an adjacent main road and a second roofed hall over the centre of  the train platforms. The stucture was built of 50 cm thick concrete walls and roofs, with no openings towards the relevant directions. With all these constraits, the architecural design was inspired by some earthly creature emerging from the ground: its folded geometry claded with white concrete “scales” over the heavy reinforced skeketon is unique indeed.

Ami Shinar, Partner in Charge

Project Team: Kedem Shinar, Martin Neiman

Photos: Yael Engelmier, Gal Dern, Dana Polo

See more: Archdaily, November 22, 2014