As cars slowly take cities away from people, we face more and moreissues in connection with the growing automation of our society. Mydegree work is part of a larger scale public transportation theDanube at Budapest, called ‘Duna Express’. The goal of my project was to integrate the Duna Express ship line into the visual (symbolic) andtransportation (logical) system of Budapest with the central ship stop. Thesquare and the riverbank area provide a very unique environment: aneclectic architectural scene, the meeting of nature and built environment,and a special meeting point of different architectural and design eras.

The key of this project was to control the manifestation of user-product interaction in different dimensions: the whole city is theuser of urban systems, groups of people are users of human-built fásenvironment, and people are users of several machines, products.Different interacting elements make a system at a level of coherence.My goal was to make this coherence tight and clean. To do so, I usedmore of a product designer approach projected to all dimensions,instead of thinking as an architect or an urban designer.

I decided to design the ship station on the lower quay of Buda, rightnext to the square in Northern in the level of the upper quay. Thisway it saves space and doesn’t affect the view (of the building of theParliament) from Batthyány square. It is also easy to connect it withthe nearby METRO and “HÉV” (agglomeration train) lines; since thisplace is right over the underground station of both of these lines.

My main design goals and principalsfor creating the visual elements were sensibility, elegance, clarity,transparency and speed. I made a very craggy geometric, stillorganic concept, and I designed every part I could to fit thisimage, trying to make a total design: handrails, informationterminals, entrance gates and information counter.