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Location: Davos
Date: Competition: 2022, 2nd place
Berrel Kräutler Architekten AG
Maurice Berrel
Competition: Lukas Burkhard, Stasia Kremer, Thomas Merz, Jan Przedpelski, Agnieszka Slota, Sophie Wuest
Project participants
Clients: Gemeinde Davos / Rhätische Bahn / Davos Klosters Bergbahnen / Immobiliengenossenschaft Konsum Davos
Landscape architecture: Bryum GmbH
Building engineer: SJB Kempter Fitze
Traffic planner: Hartmann & Monsch
Visualisisations: maaars
0289Davos town centre
The necessary relocation of Davos railway station entails a redesign of the existing open space "Seehofseeli" on the central promenade. At the same time, several adjacent parcels on both sides of the tracks will be integrated into the planning of a lively new centre with transport, commercial, tourism, hotel and residential uses. The novel open space, spanned between the railway station and the Parsennbahn, between Migros and the St.Theodul church, offers both a stage for the arriving visitors from near and far and a daily living space for the permanent residents of Davos. It is a porous community square for a city with different intensities of use and changes of pace.
Only the station café with two smaller sales rooms crouches under the roof between the platform and the bus edges. In the midst of the transport infrastructure, this is a very busy but by no means hectic place. The pavilion-like building with its glassy transparency, its slender construction and its reduction to the minimum meets the desire for a free view across the valley . Nevertheless, the curved volume with its graceful wooden structure and its wide roof asserts itself as the proud centre of the new city centre. It represents both the tradition of the historic mountain town and the grandeur of the globally networked city on its way to a more sustainable future.