SEAM is now working alongside the Turner Prize-winning contemporary artist Anish Kapoor and architect AL_A on a new metro station for Naples’ Traiano district.
Amidst the land of Mount Vesuvius and Dante’s mythical entrance to the Inferno, the station’s twin entrance portals – sculpted by Kapoor – are dramatically pulled up from the ground and sunken into the earth respectively. The project activates some half-finished tunnels from a previous metro endeavour, with lead architect AL_A overseeing the station design and delivery.
Dubbed the ‘MSA station’, this much-needed infrastructure most immediately serves the Monte St Angelo complex of the city’s Federico II university.
Underground, the existing, brutal concrete shells inform the material and lighting aesthetic.