Tampere Travel and Service Centre is a winning proposal by COBE for City of Tampere Finnish Transport Agency VR-Group and Senate Properties designed in 2014. It is located in Tampere Finland in a railway setting. Its scale is extralarge with a surface of 120.000 sqm. Luxigon collaborated as visualizer. Concepts such as connection urban transformation and transport network are explored. Review the 2 proposals for the same competition.
Tampere Travel and Service Centre has not only the potential to become a gateway to Tampere and the rest of Finland, but also the potential of becomming a generator for the future development of the urban centre of Tampere. The vision, «ReConnecting Tampere», introduces an intermodal transportation hub in the heart of the city as well as a development plan for uniting the city centre. By introducing a diverse urban structure that extends from the east to west across the railyard, the project provides a solid and robust foundation for unifying the two sides of Tampere’s city center once and for all.