Rogers Stirk Harbour’s Santa Maria Del Pianto Metro Station, Naples

By and Amanda Birch Amanda Birch2010-04-09T00:00:00

The canopy is formed from a lattice of thin steel plates that lands at two points and tilts back creating the entrance to the metro.

Source: Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners

The practice designed a doubly curved hyperbolic paraboloid canopy roof formed from a lattice of steel plates that tilts back to create the entrance to the metro

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