The two-level, underground station has an island platform, a naturally-lit hall and a sunken garden.[4] 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.[5] 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,[6] though it still maintained the sunken plaza within the station lobby.[7]
Construction
The station is 226 m (741 ft) long and 22 m (72 ft) wide and excavated to a depth of 19 m (62 ft). It has six entrances, three elevators for the disabled and two vent shafts.[2] 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.[8] Due to station construction, old banyan trees originally planted on the sidewalk along Xinyi Road were replanted elsewhere within the park.[9]
Design
The design theme for the station is "Forest Revolution: the City and Park Conversing".[10]
Station layout
Street Level
Entrance/Exit
Entrance/Exit
B1
Scenic Concourse
Lobby, information desk, automatic ticketing dispensing machines, one-way faregates Sunlight Hall, Sunken Garden Restrooms (Inside fare zone, outside fare zone near exit 6)
^ ab"捷運系統信義線簡介"(PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems, Taipei City Government. 2007-12-01. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2010-06-18.