Olaias (Lisbon Metro)

Olaias is a metro station Linha Vermelha the Lisbon Metro, the underground network of the Portuguese capital. The station is located at Rua de Olivença / Avenida Engenheiro Arantes e Oliveira in Lisbon township Areeiro. The neighboring stations are Alameda and Bela Vista; the station went on 19 May 1998.

History

Construction

Metro Station Olaias belongs to the occasion of Expo 1998 newly built Linha Vermelha, which went into operation on 19 May 1998 between Alameda and Oriente. The world exhibition began three days later.

Especially from 1988, the company that operates the metro, Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE, great emphasis on the artistic design of the stations. This concept was the construction of the Linha Vermelha its peak. For the construction of the station Olaias she could win the architects and artists Tomás Taveira, who was responsible for the entire station. The train station is located directly west of a very deep valley, through which the Linha de Cintura leads the way, what the Metro leads in the course of a short viaduct. Due to this geographical and structural conditions was a possibility the station much larger than usually to design. Thus, the two side platforms are huge, so massive hall carrier ranks found their place on both platforms. The hall is unique with their height in the Lisbon Metro network. The only additions to the station are located west of the railway station, is located in front of a train station corresponds to the dimensions of the access hall. The station received three lifts with the construction.

Artistic design

Were for the artistic designs, Tomás Taveira involved in addition as group leader, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Graça Pereira Coutinho, Pedro Calapez, Rui António Palolo and Sanchez. Apart from the various works of the artists, Taveira was a very colorful and colorful impression, hardly an element of the station to the train station - not even the viaduct behind the station - falls out of this atmosphere.

Cabrita Reis contributed a relatively sober work of art entitled " Ascensão " ( ascent), which is in the middle of the entrance hall. It shows various interconnected stairs in colors and black and white and intended to give the passenger a symbolic ascent - is the work of art but right next to the drive and stone steps to the road surface. Pereira Coutinho, in turn, contributed a very individualized work of art. Each of the escalators from the entrance hall to the two side platforms accompany oversized plaster walls the passenger. The plaster walls are divided into many squares of equal size, each of which can be seen a human handprint ( and feel ) is. The work is intended to represent the individual trace and mark each individual passenger. Calapez designed various forms of relief for the access hall. Sanchez, in turn, created a steel sculpture with supposedly rusted surface to act strong and powerful and yet very discreet. Palolo, however, was not involved in the station design itself, but created many colorful color panels for the short viaduct over the Linha de Cintura - and blends in with its colorful color choice also in the station design with a.

The suburban station chela is less than 300 meters in a straight line south of the subway, to a transfer possibility is not so far from both sides (CP Urbano Metropolitano de Lisboa and de Lisboa ) was made possible. There are plans to suburban station further north to move, this would be part of the significant restructuring of the Linha de Cintura from two to four tracks. An implementation of these plans by the REFER is uncertain.

Course

At the subway station connecting flights to the bus lines of the Carris.