17 - 12 September 2026
Application deadline: 10th April 2026
Contemporary urban challenges and new technologies are fundamentally reshaping the user experience within mobility hubs. The design of these mobility hubs, where different networks of railway, metro, vehicular, cycling, and pedestrian flows intersect, plays a crucial role in enabling smoother transitions between diverse transport modes and the city.
The five-days Summer School, Reframing the Architecture of Interchanges (RAI), explores how the design of mobility hubs shapes the user experience by reimagining the relationships between intermodal flows, digital technologies, and architectural space through generative visualizations.
Building upon the design-driven research initiated in 2025 at TU Delft’s Department of Architecture, the program invites participants to reconsider the design of interchanges. Using the intermodal hub of Rogoredo Station in Milan as a case study, participants will critically engage with complex spatial dynamics of the station using thick mapping and mixed visualization methods focusing on spatial articulation, flows, perceptions, experience, interfaces, and wayfinding. These multilayered interactions between mobility hubs, people, and technologies will be synthesized into visual representations, identifying critical factors that will shape the future architecture of interchanges.
Through site visits, collaborative workshops, and lectures by leading experts and stakeholders, participants will explore mobility systems, urban infrastructure, and user interaction, developing advanced analytical, design, and visualization skills.
Organizing Committee
Fabrizia Berlingieri, Francesca Monteleone, Politecnico di Milano – DAStU; Manuela Triggianese, Ömer Agirsoy, TU Delft.
Contact
francesca.monteleone@polimi.it
| Photo Credits: Francesca Monteleone, Ömer Faruk Ağırsoy