Mexican and English architecture office Aidia Studio has designed a train station for Tulum with a sweeping latticed roof that will be built on the Tren Maya railway line in Mexico.
It is a plan to build a 1,525-kilometre intercity railway across the Yucatan Peninsula in a loop between Palenque and Cancún. This station would serve the Cancún to Tulum stretch of the line.
Aidia Studio designed the perforated roof made from structural steel and glass-reinforced concrete panels to enclose over the platforms and concourse.
The geometric grid will be glazed in places to keep out the rain and lined with wood on the inside.
The town is on the Yucatan peninsula, which has a tropical climate characterised by high temperatures, humidity and a rainy season.
The geometric grid will be glazed in places to keep out the rain and lined with wood on the inside.
The studio designed the station to respond to Tulum's climate. The town is on the Yucatan peninsula, which has a tropical climate characterised by high temperatures, humidity and a rainy season.
Smaller openings in areas that receive the midday sun are worked into the roof's pattern, which is designed to create shady spots and allow sea breezes to waft through the station.
And the roof is the highest in the middle to accommodate a second level of shops and restaurants, over the railway lines and platforms.
