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Abstract
The research reviews the development of train station design theory; since the building type’s inception in the late 19th Century to this current age.
The researcher depended on the determined research problem: which is the interference and overlapping of different design elements for the process of designing a train station from different engineering departments; making it hard to determine the project’s components separately, leading to the difficult task of selecting the priorities in a required design programme that serves the designated station, and according to its specifications.
The researcher assumed that there are four design parameters that govern the interrelationship between all various engineering works: technical, urban, spatial, and style. The researcher conducted a typical analysis of the [train station] building type’s design elements, which are function, and form. As the design elements of the station are basically the station components, they were studied in their relationship to the aforementioned station parameters. The researcher found that each parameter -regarding its effect- is variable according to the design conditions that govern the function and the form for each station, and that each parameter faced elevations and depressions during the past decades; affected by economic, social, and political changes.
After dividing the timeline of train station history -since the inception of the definition of “train stations”- into 3 eras, there was the determining of the pattern changes in each parameter in each era, and as a result: the activity of each parameter in function and form, the research was able to conduct a comparative analysis between assorted examples of train stations that vary in age, size, and local cultural environment; leading to the forming of diagrams that explain the changes and interrelationships between all parameters, and formulating a design programme that considers the constraints and condition of each station, and should fit each case of train stations; whether the process of redevelopment or the new construction, that fits the changes in the conditions of city economy, society, and culture, and the necessities for achieving their goals.
Keywords: Train, Railway, Station, Intermodality, Renaissance.