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.
Hosted by Rombout Frieling labThis project is now archived and was part of DDW19
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
About Rombout Frieling lab
Rombout Frieling is both designer and engineer. In our artificial, technological age, he finds it crucial that we connect to the often unseen qualities of nature and our bodily capacities to start with. His designs therefore invite us to use our bodies more intelligently, to form part of a solution. With his lab in Eindhoven, he re-choreographs interactions worldwide, realising new typologies for technologies, products, systems and buildings that are used by thousands of people every day.
