© Werner Huthmacher

Hungerburgbahn

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City, Country Innsbruck, Austria
Year 2005–2007
Client Innsbrucker Nordkettenbahnen
Architect Zaha Hadid Architects
Services Structural Engineering
Facts Roofing surface: approx. 15,000 m² | Number of Stations: 4 (Hungerburg, Alpenzoo, Löwenhaus, Congress)
Awards RIBA European Award 2008, Award

The four free-form roof shapes of the Hungerburgbahn resemble the snow-covered landscape surrounding the city of Innsbruck. Each roof comprises a steel structure and a glass-panelled shell floating on concrete plinths.

The load-bearing steel structure comprises precision-cut steel sheets. The double-curved shell is clad with opaque glass panels mounted to the structure’s joints. Smoothly shaped volumes without visible glass fixings emerge, bearing on only a few points on the concrete structure beneath. To a great extent, the planning process is digital based on an integrated three-dimensional computer model directly connected to predominantly automated manufacturing.

Structural Engineering
Design Technologies
Transportation
Steel
Planning
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Construction
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Completion
© Werner Huthmacher