Student design of Japan subway station wins competition

School of Architecture

Winning student Nathanielle Sybico, a spring 2017 graduate, said her design for a sprawling five-story Kaizuka Subway Station (6.1 MB PDF) in Fukuoka, Japan, explores how a train station can be a gateway that facilitates the free flow of travelers into the city, much like a semipermeable membrane expedites the movement of molecules in the biological and chemical process known as osmosis. Texas A&M University Department of Architecture’s 2017 Celebration of Excellence held May 11 at the Hilton H…