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It is as revealing, and not as manufacturing , that techne is a bringing-forth. In other words, original desires that are to become an invention.

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For Leonardo da Vinci, as an artist, scientist, engineer and inventor, there was no separation between reason and imagination. Through his capacity to observe the world, he produced knowledge and created artefacts that decoded experience and the understanding of the world into a transformed reality. Similarly, Santiago Calatrava has transcended these, being both an architect and an engineer, with the capacity to combine aesthetic expression with structural potential.

Another vestige, the old station building faces the new project, revealing itself as a neoclassical landmark of the cityscape built in Eventually, changes to the city rail network in became the ideal circumstances for the origination of this project, entirely defined by the ever-changing urban fabric , thus becoming a link between its gradually increasing fragmentation.

An abrupt change of level from east to west, a gentle incline and then decline from north to south, and a sharp lateral curve in the tracks the whole way across the site add up to a geometrical nightmare or, as it turned out, a series of spatial opportunities. I thought about a gesture, and I started it with my hand, and the idea of the open hand, which signifies sincerity and openness.

From the open hand upside down, I chose the profile of the thumb and index finger and this became the shape of the column which you then see repeated several times throughout the project. For Da Vinci, the act of drawing was the means for theoretical experimentation; for Calatrava, the floor plan establishes the order of the design while the section becomes the ultimate means for creative expression.

Bearing this in mind, imagine it is extruded horizontally or replicated into an array of distinct elements, materializing the whole composition—the organ. There is tension and release of form, creating a dynamic whole. Inside, a set of vertical connections take to the underground, a threshold to the project. It provides support and access to the different parts of the composition.

Natural light increases this dynamism as it breaks through the glass blocks embedded in the plate above, at ground level, producing luminous thresholds.