- Features the largest single-layer roof in China.
- Terminal for Beijing-Tianjin high speed railway and interchange for three underground lines.
- Travel between Beijing and Yujiapu will be possible in under one hour.
Yujiapu traffic hub will serve as a terminal for the Beijing-Tianjin high speed railway and an interchange for three underground lines connecting Binhai to downtown Tianjin.
On completion, travel between Beijing and Yujiapu will be possible in under one hour by train, significantly shorter than the current two hour drive.
Under a co-design contract with the 3rd Railway Survey and Design Institution Group Corporation, Arup is responsible for design of the station roof. Expertise will be drawn from the firm’s architecture, structures, building services, building physics, façade, acoustics and lighting design disciplines.
One of the most technically challenging areas of the hub is the iconic roof. The roof is 148m long, 80m wide and 24m tall - formed with a spiral beam grid structure system and an ETFE (Ethyl Tetra Fluoro Ethylene) façade, the same ultra-light material used in the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube). Upon completion, it will be the largest single-layer roof in China.
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