Bath Spa Station proposes a civic mobility hub fusing Gothic constructional logic, Georgian civic order, and landscape principle into one tectonic proposition. The existing station severs Bath’s limestone fabric from the river, wasting the riverside edge.

The project extends the urban grid across the site, disaggregating the massing to form a permeable threshold. The datum steps down, drawing fluid circulation through interstitial spaces and dissolving the boundary between street, infrastructure, and riverbank. Programme cascades: bus terminal at the city edge, market at the intermediate level, station at the river edge bridging concourse to riverside above the platforms.

The structural system extracts Bath Abbey’s ribbed fan vaulting logic. Timber centering for masonry vaults suggests the timber-stone composite: stone in compression, timber in tension, bifurcating from a single node into a hierarchy of members. The market sits within a heavy ribbed enclosure; above, a lightweight composite rib network maximises light across the platform hall. Georgian bay rhythm and rustication are reinterpreted through this grammar from city to river.