Stretching a point: if there is a case for blobs in certain places, this bus station makes it, with a landmark made in a radical way, with a dramatic approach to modern materials and techniques.Well, it must be faced: the jury gave an award to a blob, notwithstanding the AR's deep distaste for the blob movement. It is a bus station built on an island in the forecourt of Hoofddorp's Spaarne Hospital and it acts as junction point for local bus services. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Its long curved form is hollowed out to provide shelter and access to the buses. Overall, it is like a giant elongated e·lon·gate tr. & intr.v. e·lon·gat·ed, e·lon·gat·ing, e·lon·gates To make or grow longer. adj. or elongated 1. Made longer; extended. 2. Having more length than width; slender. Arp or Moore and, inside, it is like being in an enormous sculpture, or perhaps like being in the belly of a whale after entering its mouth. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Seats for waiting passengers are carved carve v. carved, carv·ing, carves v.tr. 1. a. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice: carved a roast. b. into the walls, and at the west end, a tiny restroom for bus staff has been formed. The bus station was carved out of polystyrene polystyrene (pŏl'ēstī`rēn), widely used plastic; it is a polymer of styrene. Polystyrene is a colorless, transparent thermoplastic that softens slightly above 100°C; (212°F;) and becomes a viscous liquid at around 185°C; foam in a factory and given a sprayed-on polyester polyester, synthetic fiber, produced by the polymerization of the product formed when an alcohol and organic acid react. The outstanding characteristic of polyesters is their ability to resist wrinkling and to spring back into shape when creased. skin. The five elements five elements, n.pl fire, water, earth, wood, and metal; in Chinese medicine, each of these five components is used to organize phenomena for use in clinical applications. Each of the elements corresponds to a specific function (i.e. were brought to the site and then glued together, after which the whole was given a further coat of polyester. The big but very light form is firmly bolted down to concrete foundations. It is the world's largest structure made of synthetic materials, for building the form in a conventional way would have been completely impossible within the budget. Before starting manufacture, the architects tested the proposed materials extensively against damage from impact and vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and with knives, cigarettes, mallets and other vicious devices. The substances triumphantly survived all such attentions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The jury was impressed by the spatial and technical elan and ingenuity of the building--even those of us who do not like blobs had to admit that the form is appropriate for its function and site. Almost all blobs create a zone of dead space round them. But here the dead area exists already (the roads and the bus stances), so it is one of the few sites on which a blob is appropriate. What the place needed was a shelter and a landmark: it got both, and now the bus station clearly adds to the life of the city. Only time will tell if its materials and construction can stand up to the kind of human attrition Attrition The reduction in staff and employees in a company through normal means, such as retirement and resignation. This is natural in any business and industry. Notes: to which most bus stations are subjected. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] |
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