“Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives”

Joseph Beuys

 

The project borns from the figure of the artist itself. A subject who is presumed to be a bit unusual and who people tends to see as an unsociable person but that this is not obviously have to be this way.

 

The formalization of the project carries through because of the idea of configuring “an station inside an station”. We saw a great potential on the Michigan Central Station and we wanted to bring back a feeling of reminiscence of the Detroit Golden Era. And to do so the building had to be FULL OF LIFE!

 

We considered the station as a skin, in which we introduced a structure which will be accommodating the “static” part of the program and raising a bit over the original skin sticking out visually to the whole city. In addition, this structures supports al the “wagons”, configuration of the habitation and work units which can be used anyway you want! And if you want a building to be full of life you have to make it move inside! So… the wagons can go Up and Down, can be opened to the public, or can be closed an be witness of the creation of a new masterpiece, they con join together, they can be used inside and why not… outside!

Definitely, we propose an active world, full of social and personal interactions. Full of energy as if we were in the “platforms” of a train station.

 

However, if there is a departure station it has to be necessarily one destination. So that we propose the idea that you can configure every single station for the arts that you can ever imagine, and you can go here and there, because why moving just a building when you can move the whole society?