Check out these breathtaking visual designs of the M5 metro line! – PHOTOS
Using augmented reality, you can enter the world of the under-construction M5 metro line with a unique app! FŐMTERV Zrt. has created a phone application that allows anyone to explore the M5 metro line in Budapest that is still well under construction.
In the app, users can travel the line virtually, using Augmented Reality (AR). The aim of FŐMTERV is to show the secrets of the project to a wider audience, reports Index.
What can the application show us?
“It is a perennial difficulty for us to present the future facility in a credible way to a public that cannot read the technical plans, and to ask for their opinion. The visual plans help a lot in this, but the reality will always be a little different,” said Tibor Keszthelyi, President and CEO of FŐMTERV Zrt. to Magyar Építők about why this application is necessary.
The app has several functions that allow the user to travel along the M5. One can even look inside the tunnel under construction and track the current position of the tunneling shield underground!
“We hope that the app we are launching will be easy to understand and use for all interested users, and will quickly become popular with them. Its success is important for the whole engineering profession, as the application will make the complexity of engineering tangible,” added Keszthelyi.
Where will the M5 metro line be?
Thanks to the development of the M5 metro, the HÉV in Csepel and the HÉV in Ráckeve will be interlinked and will run to Kálvin Square via Boráros Square. The first step in the project is the introduction of the H6 and H7 lines from Ráckeve to Kálvin Square in a deep tunnel from Közvágóhíd: this tunnel will reach its maximum depth of 50 metres at the terminus at Kálvin Square. That is, it will run under the 38-metre-deep Metro 4. In a second step, the Szentendre, Csepel and Ráckeve lines will be connected by a tunnel under the Danube, creating Metro 5.
You can download the application on your Android device HERE and your Apple device HERE. The application is available in English and Hungarian.
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Check out these amazing visual plans of the M5 metro line below!
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Source: Index, Magyar Építők
In a way they remind me of the colourful walls at London’s Tottenham Court Road tube station. The difference being that the world renowned artist Eduardo Paolozzi was commissioned to design them and in 1986 used mosaics (rather the panels the M3 is using, presumably to save money) so they are works of art, which the M3 panels are most decidedly not.
“Eduardo Paolozzi’s mosaics at Tottenham Court Road are one of the most spectacular examples of public art in London. Completed in 1986, the glass mosaics cover 950 sq metres featuring prominently on the Northern line and Central line platforms and an array of interconnecting spaces. The mosaics reflect Paolozzi’s interpretation of the local area and his wider interest in mechanisation, urbanisation, popular culture and everyday life.”
https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/paolozzi-restoration-at-tottenham-court-road-station/
Art lovers should check out Google images for them. Just type in: Eduardo Paolozzi tube stations.
Post Modern – 1971 lived in Bloomsbury, for (2) two years – used occasionally Tottenham Court Road tube Station – mainly Goodge Street – vastly different decades on, as you refer.
Interesting traveling the World using metro services – the CHANGED architectural themes & trends applied, over decades.
In recent time – spent day and a bit, in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
Metro system – all state of the art infrastructure & carriages – design of metro stations externally & internally – personally found them PLEASANT without to much “arty farty” incorporation into their design.
The M4 – in Budapest, the “travelling” down to the platforms and the actual “visual” that surrounds you on the platforms – pleasant/tasteful.
@Aldwych – tube station design and refurbishment has dramatically changed since the early 1970’s when you were resident. If I had to name my two favourites they would Canary Wharf (designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in September 1999) and Westminster Jubilee Line (designed by Michael Hopkins & Partners and opened in December 1999). Farringdon deserves a special mention as an excellent restoration / refurbishment of the Victorian station (the oldest tube / metro line in the world is the Metropolitan line with services beginning in 1863 predating the Budapest M1 which only began service in 1896).
What is it with British people always trying to prove their superior “things”? Their metro stations are superior, their music festivals, their bridges… Not everything has to be a competition. Sometimes you should just keep calm and carry on, but in some other direction of thought.
M4 compares with the jubilee line in london at a fraction of the cost- 5 stars for M4 – 6 for the jubilee line over 20 years ago.