2018

MRT STATION

ATOPIA

MRT in Taipei as an underground system, the entrance to the station appears typically like a matchbox on the street like cities worldwide. The scheme proposed in the project is to introduce a new idea for Metro station design. Unlike the matchbox design, it breaks the boundary between the station and its environment, on the other hand, The combination of the idle site in the city and the MRT entrance can make the urban gap become a breathing space for urban people and turning the daily commute into a beautiful journey.

Using the data analysis to ensure the site's choice can target the most rush area in Taipei. Where the commercial buildings are gathered, where the project should be placed. The final site decides to set on Songjiang Nanjing station, where the passenger flow is the highest in the city during the workday and has an idle site just across an alley. It's easy to tell, the third entrance of Songjiang Nanjing station has all the conditions to complete the aim of the idea.

Melt the entrance just on the landform where it has been semi-rectangular sunken for extending the landscape into the underground. Separate the people with the concrete jungle on the ground, then use a slope to connect the underground entrance to the main building and the ground plaza to introduce the sunlight and fresh air to the whole tubular entry.

When a visitor leaves the station and walks into the slope, they immediately feel the difference compared to the urban, like going into a utopia in urban. Here, the environment surrounded is quiet, slow and relaxed. With the arrangement of elevation control, layers of exhibition plaza, library corridor and resting places were created. The surrounding plantation and the surrounded slow water wall can effectively absorb the noise from the traffic and people's activity on the ground. While visitors walk on the entrance slope, they will be driven by their biological instinct, seeking sunlight and the music sound to lead their way to the deeper side in the building.

SPATIAL COMPOSITION

There are two circulations for different needed of visitors.

There is a visiting order for visitors to follow, they will hear a sound of music or water after going into the slope to increase their interest to keep walking deeper to the next stage which is inner the main building. Slowing down the urban pace is the only target to decide the function in the building. Accordingly, setting the exhibition lobby, library corridor and resting places both to aim people to slow down their pace. The whole building is a half-outdoor structure that can let the water's sound go through everywhere. The sound from the water wall is slow and tender; this kind of sound can help to release the tension emotion form the people in the city. If the people who are in a rush, can walk away through the slope, but their pace will still become slower compared with normal because the path which surrounds the centre gardon longer the distance from the entrance to the ground, which always helps to achieves the goals of the project.

DETAIL THINKING

The traditional OA steel table inspires the detail of the stair. Trying to turn over the sight from top to the downer side is making people feel more coverture when they walk down the stair to correspond to the idea that wants the site to be a utopia in the city, which can help people to escape from the life from a while.

Thinking of where can make people be calm and feel peaceful, the church's image came out of the mind. The layout of the rest area is from the church. Still, the chair has been changed to be more for individual users, for example, the sunken the middle of the chair so that one chair can work only for a person that can keep the social distance between people, and the seat back is raked for extra comfort. It turns out this little change can make the space more quiet and peaceful.