MBS4E

The concept of the MBS4E is based on the succession of a series of profiles that assembled together form the bus station according to the place of installation, in order to respond to the ever-changing specificities of the various spaces.

The modules are 6, and each contain different services: signage, seats, ticket office, information panel, a waste bin, a speaker that plays selected music, a specific space for people waiting for the bus standing while remaining inside the space.

After various tests, I found it appropriate to shape the profiles by joining white prepainted aluminum panels with curved elements, also of the same material, which thus define the shape of the individual profiles.

Although the combinations of the modules are free and innumerable, I have designed 4 "standard", called S-M-L-XL, which respond to 4 different predefined spatial needs.

Another element that I considered essential to design, together with the design of the bus station, is the graphics. I think that people are now so addicted to the standard graphics of signage, that although are designed to be clear and legible in every situation, it has ended up flattening and becoming almost "anonymous". I then designed new icons, redesigned the typography and designed, for the numbers of stations, a new typeface with a more stimulating and contemporary look, inspired by the futuristic typography of Wim Crouwel.

The intent is to provide citizens with essential, clean, contemporary and - above all - stimulating design. With their high-tech candor these bus stations will be, within the urban organized chaos, similar to oases in which waiting turns into an opportunity to enjoy a space designed specifically for that single moment, not a cold standardized element repeated identically both in a metropolis and in a small decentred town.