CONNECTIONS BETWEEN METRO AND THE CITY

Typology of stations and urban morphology around the Santiago de Chile metro

Abstract

The metro, the city's preferred public transportation system, represents at the same time a work of the first magnitude, capable of inducing the sustainable urban development that the planet today demands. This depends, however, on the adequate articulation of two factors, the architecture of its stations and the morphology of its environment.

This article analyzes the Santiago Metro network from these two aspects. The set of typologies that define the architecture of its 136 stations is identified and this is related to the observation of the transformation of public space and the built fabric of the surroundings of each of them, before and after the construction of the metro. This, with the aim of highlighting the conjunction of typological and morphological patterns that best contributes to the construction of more sustainable, equitable and healthy urban environments and, in this way, guide their future interventions.