Abstract
The first stations of the Valencia subway lines were accessible by conventional
metro entrances, stairs leading to an underground corridor or hallway, invisible
from the street and from where you came, directly or through other corridors, to
the platforms. In the new metro lines from the network of FGV Ferrocarriles de
la Generalitat Valenciana (Railways of the Regional Government of Valencia)
built between 1995 and 2010 the architectural design of the stations is addressed
in a different way from design strategies that seek greater interaction with the
public space and the urban environment. To expose these strategies of interaction
with the urban environment, the paper uses as case studies several stations
designed by the author, belonging to lines 3 and 5 of the Valencia Metro
network.
