The work concerns a city street undergoing transformation near the Padua East motorway toll gate and the ring road. The area has important rail and road infrastructures that separate the San Lazzaro district from the Mortise district.
The “North-East Star” is based on the dominating local presence of the transport infrastructures and its design repeats the same morphological logic of the adjacent junction on the ring road.
The project has been interpreted in an architectonic key, with a shape inspired precisely by the fluid flow of the cycling-pedestrian routes that link the various areas of the city.
The “North-East Star” bridge construction is not only a connecting element that passes over roads and railways, but also surrounds a shopping centre and a regional underground station of the Veneto Regional Metropolitan Railway System.
The platform of the railway station is located below the buildings which also function as the station ceiling. The reinforced concrete platform is supported by a series of mushroom-shaped pillars that figuratively underline the impression of an architectonic object in movement.
Above the reinforced concrete platform, there is a buffer structure built mainly of glass panels, creating a visual link between the indoor and outdoor areas.