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(Archive) The Station of Being

A movie about and models of a radically new type of bus station we designed for and built in one of Sweden's Northernmost cities, Umeå.

This project was part of DDW 2019
universum north bus station, umeå, sweden — © samuel pettersson

How can we bring the public transport experience to a higher level? The Research Institutes of Sweden asked Rombout Frieling lab to jointly redesign the electric bus experience and apply it in the extreme climate of Umeå. This bus station, which transforms the waiting experience, is a first outcome.

Waiting for a bus is often regarded as wasting time: it may mean standing in a -30°C snowstorm, continuously on the lookout out for the bus, while trying to escape into a mobile phone. Yet, after a busy day of work many of us are longing for a moment to r