Landscape & Urban Design Issue 62 2023 | Page 42

GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE

STATION FORECOURT

• Architects : PosadMaxwan
• Photographs : Aiste Rakauskaite
• Lead Architect : Rients Dijkstra
PosadMaxwan , an urban design firm from The Hague , The Netherlands , has designed the unique main entrance to the underground bicycle parking area located beneath the city of Zwolle ’ s train station square . For the first time ever , the greenery of a station square has been extended to meet up with an underground parking garage , creating a seamless connection between the indoors and the outdoors . Cyclists are guided down the ramps by a sloping green garden with plants that change with the seasons .
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