Daan Park Station

Daan Park Station
大安森林公園站
Location
Municipality Taipei
District(s) Daan
Address Xinyi Rd., Sec. 3
Info
Type Underground
History
Opened November 24, 2013
Rail services
Line(s)      Xinyi Line (R9)
Operator(s) Taipei Rapid Transit System

The Taipei Metro Daan Park Station is a metro station on the Xinyi Line located beneath Xinyi Rd, Sec. 3 between Xinsheng South Rd. and Jianguo South Rd. in Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan.[1] It is located at the northern end of the Daan Forest Park for which it is named after. The station was opened on 24 November 2013.[2]

Station overview

The station is a two-level, underground station with an island platform. It has a naturally-lit hall and sunken garden.[3] The naturally-lit hall has two light towers and a light hallway. The sunken garden connects to the hall and has a ring-shaped corridor, pond, cascade and a circular plaza.[4] The station also has an underground parking lot.

An earlier draft for the station's design did not include the waterfall and sunken, ring-shaped corridor design,[5] though it still maintained the sunken plaza within the station lobby.[6]

Construction

The station is 226 m (741 ft) long and 22 m (72 ft) wide. Excavation depth is at 19 m (62 ft). It has six entrances, three elevators for the disabled and two vent shafts.[1] One of the entrances is integrated into a joint development building. The 34-story building is incorporated into Exit D and was completed in December 2010.[7] Due to station construction, old banyan trees originally planted on the sidewalk along Xinyi Road were replanted elsewhere within the park.[8]

Design

The design theme for the station is "Forest Revolution: the City and Park Conversing".[9]

Station layout

1F Street Level Entrance/Exit
B1 Concourse
Scenic Level		 Lobby, information desk, automatic ticketing dispensing machines, one-way faregates
Sunlight Hall, Sunken Garden
Restrooms (Inside fare zone, outside fare zone near Exit 6)
B2 Platform 1 ←      Xinyi Line toward Tamsui/ Beitou (Dongmen)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Platform 2 →      Xinyi Line toward Xiangshan/ Daan (Daan) →

Around the station

Preceding station   Taipei Metro   Following station
toward Tamsui
Red Line
Xinyi Line
toward 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "捷運系統信義線簡介" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems, Taipei City Government. 2007-12-01. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  2. ↑ "Second Stage of Taipei MRT (Approved MRT Lines)". Department of Rapid Transit Systems, TCG. 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  3. ↑ "馬市長視導信義線大安森林公園站下凹庭園工程". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2006-11-01. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  4. ↑ "大安森林公園站的溫馨願景". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  5. ↑ "From Concept Creation to Innovation: Examples of Planning and Design for the Taipei MRT’s Daan Park Station (R09)" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems. February 2006. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  6. ↑ "Daan Park Station on the Xinyi Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2004-04-01. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  7. ↑ "Joint Development Building at Daan Park MRT Station Completed". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2011-04-01. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  8. ↑ "Old Banyans Moves to a New Location". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2011-07-28.
  9. ↑ "信義線大安森林公園站下凹式庭園之 整體規劃與設計". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2007-04-01. Retrieved 2010-06-23.