Client
Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin

Architecture
Ingenhoven Architects, Düsseldorf

Daylight planning
Lighting design Ulrich Werning

Lighting design
up to the design stage: lighting design Ulrich Werning / Werning Tropp und Partner
until execution: Tropp Lighting Design, Weilheim

Model photos
Holger Knauf

Completion
expected 2027

Project Team DAY & LIGHT
Markus Tuppen
Frank Vetter
Stefan Vetter

The main station, designed by Ingenhoven Architects as the centrepiece of Stuttgart's 21st-century urban development project, is currently under construction and scheduled for completion by 2027.

In 1997 and 2001, we took the first daylight measurements on models of different scales to make well-founded statements about daylight incidence. Daylight is an essential component of the station hall, which extends beneath a car park adjacent to the historic Bonatz Building. The curved chalice shape of the columns guides light smoothly into the space, and despite its underground location, it elegantly conveys the impression of a modern, daylight-flooded station hall.