Metro 4 Rákóczi Square station

The new Metro sta­ti­on vastly imp­ro­ved the image of the pre­vi­o­usly badly re­pu­ted Rá­kó­czi Squ­a­re. Thanks to the pro­ject, the sta­ti­on is now lin­ked to the mar­ket hall and its va­lu­ab­le trees are pre­ser­ved. In order to save the old and rare trees, mi­ning tech­no­logy was used at a cert­ain stage of the pro­ject. Two su­per­struc­tu­res were built: one for the es­ca­la­tors and the other for the lifts and the sta­ir­well. The two sec­tions of the re­in­for­ced conc­re­te cons­o­le struc­tu­re are po­sit­i­on­ed back to back and inc­line to­wards the cent­re at 20 and 30 deg­rees, respec­ti­vely, while the pool flanked by the two mas­ses of the buil­ding lends unity to the struc­tu­re. The de­sign­ers succ­ess­fully got rid of the road sec­ti­on that once ran be­fo­re the mar­ket hall and rep­la­ced it with a mul­ti­func­ti­o­nal, paved urban space.