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Bus Station
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 The scheme, a complex transport interchange on an incredibly sensitive and tight site, is an exciting new contemporary structure, built in the centre of a World Heritage Cities in the World. Instead of trying to emulate the traditional architecture of Bath Wilkinson Eyre Architects has combined a mix of glass, steel, aluminium and stone to create a contrast to the surrounding buildings and make a composition of the new and the old.
The basic diagram of the scheme relocates the bus station to the same side of the street as the original Grade II* listed Bath Spa railway station by Brunel, improving the visual connection and safe interchange between the two vital transport nodes. This connection will be completed through the introduction of a new civic plaza in the second phase of the redevelopment.
 The bus station consists of two main elements: the Passenger Concourse and the Rotunda building. The Passenger Concourse is a lightweight, glazed enclosure with seating distributed along its length, internally and externally, serving 16 bus bays. The 4 storey Rotunda, which houses the bus operator’s offices and public amenities at ground floor is clad in glass and stone with a wrap of aluminium tubes forming a veil, providing sun shading to the spaces within and reinforcing the rotunda form.
The bus station is the first phase of a wider project to connect the City’s bus station with its train station. The second phase will include the refurbishment of the train station and the development of a new square. The previously hidden station vaults will be opened up and refurbished, used as a public amenity to enliven the square. |
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glass, steel, aluminium, stone
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| Continent |
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Europe |
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Somerset |
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Bath and North East Somerset |
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Bath |
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Dorchester Street (St James's Parade)
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Transport buildings and structures
Bus stations
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Realisation |
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2009 |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Charles Linn, "Bath Spa Bus Station, Bath, England. Wilkinson Eyre Architects", Architectural Record 3/2010, march 2010 [Transit Takes Off. Designs for Rail, Air, and Bus], pp. 96-97 |
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CREDITS |
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Photos © Ioana Marinescu
Text edited by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Courtesy by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
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