What is the most distinctive railway station in China?

The scale of the new Suzhou Railway Station will be 5-6 times of the existing area, with a total investment of 2 1 100 million yuan and a total construction area of133,600 square meters. It is expected that the new Suzhou Railway Station will be completed and put into operation in June 2009, and its design and scale will reach the level of a century.

The scheme of the new railway station building is: the design scale is 40,000 square meters, which is 5 to 6 times the area of the existing railway station building; The existing Suzhou Railway Station has three stations and eight lines, namely, three platforms and eight track lines. The scale of the new railway station will be expanded to 7 platforms and 16 track lines, and its scale has more than doubled. Among them, there are 4 sets of 9-line general-speed platforms for Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and 3 sets of 7-line platforms for Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity Railway. The new railway station building and the new platform line will meet the demand of sending 56,776 passengers and passenger trains 164 pairs in 2020 (currently there are 68 pairs of passenger trains stopping at Suzhou Station, of which 5 pairs originated); It will also meet the demand of sending 8 145 1 passenger trains and 186 passenger trains in 2030 (long-term). Its construction scale is expected to meet the needs of 100.

At present, the architectural scheme of the new railway station has been determined by the international bidding organized by the Ministry of Railways and designed by Cui Kai, a famous architect in China.

The design concept of the scheme will highlight the principle of "people-oriented, flow-oriented" and embody the concept of green environmental protection station; In the architectural form, it embodies Suzhou characteristics and Suzhou elements, continues the urban context and texture, and creates a "Soviet but new" era architecture, and its design concept will shine with the Millennium ancient city; In the overall layout, it is designed to build a station across the line, that is, two floors above the ground and two squares in the north and south, which is convenient for passengers to enter the waiting room of the station from two directions; There are three floors underground, and the north and south squares are connected through underground passages and directly connected with the subway. After leaving the train platform, passengers can take the subway directly at the subway station to reach the city.

According to reports, of the total construction area of133,600 square meters, in addition to the construction area of the new railway station, the elevated waiting room area is18,280 square meters, the above-ground construction area is 10322 square meters, the exit construction area is 9,393 square meters, the commercial construction area is 3,252 square meters, and the above-ground and underground buildings are 3,252 square meters, which are used for canopy without platform columns. The area of related overpass facilities is 12778 square meters, the area of underground central pedestrian communication passage is 7748 square meters, and the area of underground connecting lanes at both ends is 5026 square meters.

■ Station building: The reconstructed new Suzhou Station is located in the original station building at the junction of the old and new areas. It is adjacent to the ancient moat scenic belt in the south and the booming Pingjiang New Town commercial and financial center in the north. Recently, both the north and the south are equally important, and * * * undertakes the function of passengers entering and leaving the station; In the long run, it will gradually form a new situation in which the north is the main station and the south is the auxiliary station.

■ North-South Square: The new railway station has nearly 80,000 square meters of new North-South Square. There are bus and luggage parking lots on both sides of the South Square, a pedestrian plaza in the middle, a taxi pick-up and drop-off area, a social parking lot and a VIP parking lot on the east. The North Square adopts the form of elevated entrance, with commercial buildings on the ground and parking lots for buses and long-distance passenger vehicles.

■ Underground exit passage: combined with the commercial service building, it is arranged on the center line of the station building, connecting the underground space of the North and South Square, connecting the left and right sides of the section, and two other exit passages are connected to the exit hall. One of them can be used as a fast stop channel in the off-season. The subway has two floors underground, so the central underground corridor also has entrances and exits to the lower subway, which is convenient for subway and railway passengers to transfer. There are also passages connecting the north and south underground parking lots on the two wings of the square.

■ Platform floor: The new railway station has 7 platforms. Among them, platform 1-4 stops at Shanghai-Nanjing Railway. The Shanghai-Nanjing intercity train stops at platforms 5 to 7.

■ North and South Station Building: The indoor space of the room light hall in the North Station is high15m, and the room light hall in the South Station is designed as a semi-outdoor space open to the ancient city. Station management rooms, such as station platform, waiting room, ticket office, VIP waiting room and private room, are all connected into a whole in an orderly way through the courtyard.

■ Elevated floor: The waiting room hall with large internal space connects the North and South stations into a whole. Therefore, ordinary Shanghai-Nanjing railway passengers and Shanghai-Nanjing intercity railway passengers enjoy the waiting area space. According to the needs of the north and south regions and the modes of passengers' riding, the waiting hall will be divided into a wide and open central passage, a general-speed train waiting area and a passing intercity train waiting area, and ticket checking systems will be set up respectively to facilitate passengers to check tickets and ride.

■ Subway floor: two underground floors, which are also the platform floor of Metro Line 2 and the station hall floor of Metro Line 4 to be built soon. Several exits connect the central corridor and the north and south station buildings of the station. The third underground floor is the platform floor, equipment and management room of Metro Line 4.

■ Station structure: The new Suzhou Station consists of a canopy without platform columns, an elevated waiting room and a main station building. Among them, the floor of the elevated waiting room adopts bidirectional prestressed reinforced concrete well grid floor; The main station building adopts frame structure; The roof of canopy without platform column, the roof of main station and the roof of elevated waiting room all adopt rhombic vertical and horizontal steel truss structure system.