The design of the middle span of Yongfeng Station of Metro Line 16 without suspended ceiling makes the visual experience of the station more spacious, and the lamps and decorations are simple with the traditional style of China.
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Our reporter Cao Zheng
The new line is the "old station". The roof, wall and column of the station are transparent and bright without brick and cover. A huge chandelier hangs down from a position nearly 5 meters high, and the style of painting at the old station is coming. If it weren’t for the announcement on the radio that the train on Line 16 was coming, I really thought I was going back to the old subway station decades ago.
After half a century, the serial number of Beijing subway will increase to "No.16" by the end of this year. Yesterday, the reporter took the lead in visiting the northern section of Line 16, which was opened at the end of the year. The styles of these stations are quite different from those of the new lines in recent years, but many places can see the painting styles of the old stations of Line 1 and Line 2.
Station "Return" to Line 1 Style
At the entrance and exit, the cement tone is matched with transparent glass, and there is no longer a tightly wrapped wallboard; More than 300 meters long station, columns stand on both sides, yellow paint is sprayed on it, and concrete particles can be felt; The chandelier hangs down, and the warm light shines on the space more than four meters high, which is particularly empty … … Yongfeng Station on Beiqing Road is the fastest-growing station for the renovation of Line 16. Zheng Wei, the chief engineer of the project, is a Beijinger. Standing under the huge chandelier, he frequently lamented: "Isn’t this the subway station on Line 1 that we went to?"
Metro Line 1 was built 50 years ago. At that time, the design and equipment of the subway were simple, and the scale of the station was often small. You came in from the entrance and exit to the small station halls at both ends, and the platform was down the stairs, so the height of the platform could be seven or eight meters. Similarly, in terms of decoration style, the decoration style of Line 1 and Line 2 is biased towards the design of the subway station in the former Soviet Union, with spacious, bright and neat columns, few decorations and simple colors.
By the time the new line was launched, the subway station became more upscale. "It’s like a house in the home of ordinary people. At first, it was a rough house. Later, I thought about hanging a roof, sticking some wall bricks, and laying the floor well. Therefore, it also brought a new painting style to the Beijing subway station." Designer Zhu Yunfei said. However, after these decades, people think that the style of the old station on Line 1 can stand the test of time. In recent years, Guangzhou Metro and Shanghai Metro have all set off a wave of "retro", which tends to be simple in style, more spacious in visual space and more atmospheric in appearance.
This just complements Line 16, which is the first 8-year marshalling line with large capacity in Beijing Metro. Because the station has the largest capacity at present, the station space is larger, the length of the station hall is nearly 120 meters, the length of the platform is 186 meters, and the structure of the station hall is relatively high, which brings a wider public space for passengers on Line 16. Therefore, Line 16 has fully realized the concept of "spatial planning" in Beijing subway for the first time.
"The previous station was ‘ Wear ’ Fancy, and this time it’s ‘ Show muscles ’ 。” Yu Le, chief engineer of Beijing Urban Express Rail Company, made an analogy. In fact, the main structure of the station on Line 16 is exposed, and the shape is simple and beautiful, which makes the station more atmospheric.
The platform top is raised by 1.5m.
The scale of subway stations built in recent years is generally divided into two floors: the station hall and the platform. With the installation of air conditioning, communication and other equipment into the subway, the station is densely covered with a large number of pipelines, and most of them need aluminum plates to wrap the station from top to bottom. Although the height of each floor structure is not low, it is covered by aluminum ceiling, and the actual height is only about 3 meters. "The line of sight of passengers with a height of 1.7 meters is basically about 1.5 meters. Together with various signs hanging from the ceiling, the head is the ceiling, and the space looks very depressed." Yu Le said.
In 2014, the city had a small test in the west section of Metro Line 15. Liudaokou Station and Anlilu Station tried vault-style stations for the first time: instead of installing aluminum ceiling, the vault was exposed in the middle, painted with warm paint, installed LED lights at the foot of the arch, illuminated the top with virtual light, and equipped with beautiful chandeliers, the station suddenly added a temple-like effect.
In the northern section of Line 16, which opened at the end of this year, 10 stations are no longer equipped with suspended ceilings, leaving a lot of space. In this way, the station on Line 16 has raised the overall space height. Among them, the space height of the station hall floor increased from 3.2 meters to about 4 meters, and the space height of the platform floor increased from 3 meters to 3.4 meters. In particular, Daoxiang Lake Station Hall is 5.2 meters high, and Xiyuan Station is 4.6 meters high.
Even brighter is the mid-span part in the middle of the station where passengers’ eyes are concentrated. Without the ceiling, the height of the mid-span of the platform is about 4.7 meters from the past 3 meters to 3.2 meters, and it is 1.5 meters high at once.
Xiyuan station can see the "long corridor"
By the end of this year, Line 16 will take the lead in opening 10 stations in the northern section, namely Beianhe Station, Wenyang Road Station, Daoxianghu Station, Tundian Station, Yongfeng Station, Yongfeng South Station, Northwest Wang Station, Malianwa Station, Xiaojiahe Station and Xiyuan Station from north to south.
Xiyuan Station is the only interchange station, which can be interchanged with Metro Line 4. As a station in the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" area, the style inside the station also echoes the scenery outside the station.
"There is a feeling of a long corridor at the top of Xiyuan Station. You can see the style of traditional buildings by carving columns and painting buildings." Yu Le said that, different from other stations, Xiyuan Station is mainly based on Beijing traditional red, with traditional Chinese decorative patterns, and this simple thin strip outline is used continuously on columns, beams and roofs, which looks correct, steady and varied as a whole.
These painting styles are realized by using large space without suspended ceiling. But without the ceiling as a "fig leaf", will the top pipeline weave a "spider web"?
In fact, all kinds of air ducts, water pipes, professional trunking, lighting lamps, broadcasting, guiding signs and other pipelines and terminal equipment in Line 16 are put on the support and hanger, and then all these pipelines are moved to the two side frames, just like the "utility tunnel" in the air. These pipelines are not wrapped by suspended ceilings, but are neatly laid out in the sky, treated in dark colors and with enough lines, which can’t be noticed without careful reading. In addition, the support in the subway station used to be like a "boom forest", with an average of 17 to 18 holes for a 1-meter pipeline. Now, only 4 fixed points are needed for a 2.5-meter pipeline, which is more convenient for maintenance and repair in the future.
