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▲ The light rail stop at Haukeland Hospital is Bergen’s first underground station. This stop acts as the second largest mobility hub in the city, with a daily flow of around 12,000 passengers. A high, bright space leads one up with a series of escalators
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The platform hall, with the tile-art intergrated in the floor as a big clorfull carpet. by artist Inger Johanne Rasmussen
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The narrow building pit at the south entrance, with part of the concrete construction slowly growing upwards
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The two entrance pavilions are cladded in glass, bringing light into the deeper spaces of the stop. This is the south entrance, seen from the main street
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An overview on the south entrance with cylindrical volumes and posts stick up from the ground, making for an important and visible signal: the station opens up to the ground level, with several entrances and exits towards other public transport stops
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The entire facility of Haukeland Station with the two entrance building on the top ground floor on each side
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The plattform with the tactile marking on the granite floor according to universal design rules and the fire sluices at each end of the plattform
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Elevation, the big shaft with the three levels of escalators
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The walking tunnel down towards the plattform from the north entrance. The concrete brick walls are placed in a 7 degree angel due to better accoustic conditions
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The Landscape plan for the area around the south entrance
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People on there way up the escalators
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In the main shaft
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NO 01 Panel
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Haukeland Bybanen (light-rail train) station
3RW Arkitekter AS. Bergen, Norway
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Name of work in English
Haukeland Bybanen (light-rail train) station
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Name of work in original language
Haukeland Sjukehus
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2024
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Work Location
Bergen, Norway
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Studio
3RW Arkitekter AS
EUmies Awards 2024 Nominees
Collaborators
Program
Mixed use - Infrastructure & Urban
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Labels
Compact · Master plan · Public Space · Subway · Tram
Site area
5974 m²
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Client
Bybanen Utbygging / Vestland Fylkeskommune
Total gross floor
8250 m²
Completion
2022
The goal for the Haukeland Station has been to reconcile high urban ambitions with complex underground technical solutions, with a particular focus on passenger safety and perceived security. The station connects the city's largest workplace, Haukeland University Hospital, and the health clusters in the area with the light rail network in the city.
Our design concept for the facility has been to guide passengers through a few but very different spatial experiences, characterized by a clear yet varied design, emphasized by changing material choices for each volume. Actual safety for users is underground is mandatory, but perceived safety is just as important for a good user experience. Key aspects for us have been: Overview: to see far and be prepared for unwanted events as early as possible. Orientation: ensuring that the journey underground is not confusing, so that passengers do not lose their sense of direction. Simple volumes: ensuring that there is good visibility and predictability at all times, without blind spots. Lighting: ensuring that the artificial light complements the architecture and emphasizes that natural light from above, is the most important guide to the exits on the ground. Acoustics: ensuring that the acoustic experience is so good that noise and reverberation are not bothersome despite large volumes and a strong railborne noise source. Art: integrating it with the architecture, emphasizing the spatial experience of variety, while also conveying coherence, connection and colors.
Thorough mapping of ground conditions, monitoring of deformations, and injection of concrete into the rock have been crucial to enable the extensive concrete work that has been carried out. In the large shaft escalators rise 10 meters in three sections. There are a total of 6 elevators, and the tallest elevator shafts are 42 meters high. 7,000 m³ of concrete and 700 tons of reinforcement have been used. The facility has 2,500 m² of visible concrete surfaces. All concrete is exclusively produced with low-carbon, class A. All other materials have been selected based on properties that provide sound absorption class A with a fire safety class at the second highest level (A2-s1,d0) The total cost has been 950 million NOK. The design is CEEQUAL certified as "very good", and project's execution achieved BREEAM certification "Excellent", with the highest score achieved in Norway to date.