With a unique design, the railway or the highway running through the high-rise apartment building makes many tourists excited.
Train tracks built through the “hole” in a 19-storey apartment building in Chongqing city, China, are becoming a tourist attraction thanks to their unique design.
Trains run through the apartment building every day and people’s activities are still going on as usual.
Located in the southeast, the city of Chongqing has always been at the forefront of public transport innovations to address the travel problems of more than 49 million people. One of the works can be mentioned is the train track running through the building, as introduced above.
Trains pass through a 19-story apartment building.
Due to the mountainous terrain, building a suitable railway system is a challenge for the city government. The solution is to build a train track that runs through the building, instead of going around the building, or forced to demolish to make way for public works.
Since the completion of the route in 2005, residents and visitors to Chongqing can use the Liziba station built from the 6th to the 8th floor in the 19-storey building for daily transportation.
Thanks to the silencer, the passing train produces the same volume as a dishwasher.
According to the planners, when designing, they soon equipped with noise reduction equipment so as not to affect people’s daily lives. Therefore, when the train passes by, it only makes the same volume as a dishwasher.
Also thanks to this uniqueness, the value of the apartment building in the building increases thanks to the convenience of transportation, convenient for travel.
The highway runs through the building.
The above construction makes many people think of the Hanshin Expressway through a building in Osaka, Japan.
Considered one of the most unique architectures in the “land of cherry blossoms”, the 16-storey Gate Tower building has 5, 6, and 7 floors as highways. Thus, the building’s elevator only goes to the 4th floor and goes directly to the 8th floor, skipping 3 floors dedicated to the route.
The structure surrounding the Hanshin Expressway is specially designed to minimize noise and vibration.
Many people will wonder, why let the road pass through the building? Actually, this was the result of a land dispute but had a good ending. The building has been owned by a business since the early Meiji period (1886-1912). When the business goes down, the building also suffers.
In 1983, the Osaka government redeveloped the area, but the owner of the building refused to allot the land. After 5 years of agreement, the two sides finally reached the current solution.
In a 16-storey building, 3 floors are dedicated to the highway passing through.
Similar to the railway line in Chongqing, the structure surrounding the Hanshin Expressway is specially designed to minimize noise and vibration. So, in addition to the road going through, all activities in the building are still going on normally.