Colors, lights and shapes in the Naples underground. The “art stations” of Line 1

Authors

  • Maria Martone Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, University Sapienza of Rome
  • Floriana Papa PhD in Science of Representation and Survey, Sapienza University of Rome

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23738/ccsj.i102018.12

Keywords:

Underground colors, art stations, Line 1 of Naples subway

Abstract

In the integrated subway system of Naples, Line 1 represents a completely new infrastructural operation. Winner of many international awards, Line 1 is strongly characterized by so-called “art stations”, designed and then realized not only as an element of transit towards the external city, but as a place for a process of relationship with the surrounding urban fabric. Next to a brief description of the places, the paper aims to analyze and document in harmonious way colors, shapes and lights of some of the main stations that have made Neapolitan underground a unicum of urban mobility on iron. A sort of color-shape sampling was performed to highlight similarities and differences in color and formal choices. From this sampling we created a palette that collects the main colors in the neapolitan underground. Chromatic contrasts and bright and symbolic colors escort the traveler in the neapolitan subway, making these places of peculiar mobility thanks to the work of prestigious architects and contemporary artists.

Author Biographies

  • Maria Martone, Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, University Sapienza of Rome

    Maria Martone. Architect, Researcher she is an aggregate professor in Drawing at the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. She carries out her research activity on topics about representation and documentation of architecture, city and territory. Her contributions are in collective and monographic publications, in specialized magazines and in conference proceedings and seminars.

  • Floriana Papa, PhD in Science of Representation and Survey, Sapienza University of Rome

    Floriana Papa. Architect, PhD in Science of Representation and Survey at the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, with thesis entitled: “The railway system as a cultural heritage. The case of Latina station, in past Littoria. From the spoon to the city (?)”. She carries out research mainly on topics abot computer modeling and virtual representation of architecture.

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Published

2018-07-09

Issue

Vol. 10 (2018)

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Papers

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How to Cite

“Colors, lights and shapes in the Naples underground. The ‘art stations’ of Line 1” (2018) Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science, 10, pp. 103–118. doi:10.23738/ccsj.i102018.12.