Bus station | GRID architekci

The Bus Station is located in Piekary Slaskie, a town of population of 60 000, and part of Silesian Agglomeration. The bus station serves local town busses as well as long distance routs buses within High Silesia Conurbation.

The bus station is located in a strategic point between adjacent residential areas, and replaces an old bus station previously located on this site. The old terminal did not work well functionally. It lacked series of facilities required for the modern traveling customers. Its haphazard layout and structure arrangement forced passengers to share the same space with bus traffic and making the platforms unsafe. Parts of the station had been unoccupied and shut for years what contributed to a negative image of the space.  The station did not use the full potential of the site and there was a clear need for its redevelopment. 

When designing the new station a particular emphasis was placed on separating the pedestrian zones from the bus traffic areas. This was achieved by widening existing pavement adjacent to the site and creating a large pedestrian zone on which the station building and canopy are located. This space acts as a bus plaza with benches and small architectures and opens directly to bus platforms. As a result the new station fully meets the needs of the pedestrian passengers.

The main architectural element of the building is a vast curvilinear canopy spanning 65 meters in lengths and 20,5 meters in width and supported by elegant slender columns. It defines the site and  the building visually and creates a focal point. It visually creates a boundary of the stations with all its facilities located underside like information display boards, machine tickets, benches, bicycle racks. It provides shelter for the waiting passengers against the sun and rain. The canopy also envelopes the new bus station building which contains a waiting room, toilets, information and ticket office, small café and newspaper kiosk.

The project provides well organised and well-functioning bus station with a range of facilities which were not available in the old building. It serves local residents as well as nearby villages.  The building enhances functionally and aesthetically the tow by providing architecturally attractive and distinctive much demanded new bust station.