Stockholm C

The seating is organised around two distinct configurations, each responding to a different aspect of how people use the hall. Along the main axis, straight runs follow the room's long sightlines,  positioning the maximum number of seats in the areas where passengers naturally orient themselves on arrival, moving between platforms and exits. The straight line works with the hall's geometry rather than interrupting it, allowing the room to remain legible at the scale it was built for.

Where the straight runs end, rounded clusters take over, curving inward to form contained pockets of seating within the open hall. The shift in configuration signals a different kind of pause: less transient, more settled. A traveller waiting for a delayed train finds a different spatial offer here than one moving quickly between connections. The two configurations work as a single coherent solution, but each serves a distinct human need within the same room.

The design was developed in close collaboration with Wester + Elsner Arkitekter, whose brief was explicit: the ability to use the bench both straight and rounded was essential. It should serve not only as a visual variation but also be functional, giving the hall the flexibility to serve different patterns of use across the same floor area.