Abstract
The diagrammatic methodology of ‘infrastructural formalism’ is posed as a potential ideological corrective to exclusive functionalist management or formal elaboration. The case study of Arnhem Central Station by UN Studio (1996-2010) reveals how diagrams align the development of pre-functional and pre-formal traits. The station's infrastructure is conditioned by flow diagnostics, yet functional diagrams are converted into spatial geometry through a non-linear process of exchange between imported and modulated design models. Constructs of ‘concrete / abstract machines,’‘natural rationality’ and ‘good / loose fit’ serve as the theoretical basis for new modes of endogenous design consistency. The creative exactness of the beautiful apparatus offers an alternative way to span the divide between operation and appearance, and consequently, to balance ethical and aesthetic aspirations.1
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