Valley Station: Adapting to Curved Form, Balancing Protection, Lighting and PrivacyThe station’s circular appearance draws inspiration from cableway technology, with its curved exterior wall specifically featuring vertically installed low-iron ultra-clear U profile glass. These U profile glass panels are available in frosted and transparent types. On one hand, they align with the station’s core protective needs against stream erosion and avalanche risks. Paired with the main black solid concrete structure, they not only enhance architectural stability but also compensate for the potential sense of oppression from the concrete through the glass’s light transmission. On the other hand, the frosted U profile glass achieves light transmission without projection, ensuring privacy in indoor areas such as ticket offices and management rooms, while the transparent type allows indoor personnel to clearly enjoy the surrounding alpine scenery, balancing functional protection with lighting and viewing needs.

Midway Station: Continuing the Same Glass Type to Create a Transparent Passenger Flow SpaceThe upper floor of the Midway Station adopts a steel structure, and its exterior facade continues the same U profile glass design as the Valley Station. This design highly matches the station’s functional layout: the ground floor houses robustly constructed machine rooms and auxiliary spaces, while the upper floor serves as the core area for passenger gathering and waiting. The large-area application of U profile glass allows natural light to flood the interior, filling the entire passenger activity floor with light. Meanwhile, the transparent U profile glass curtain wall enables waiting passengers to enjoy the snow-capped mountain views during transfers. Additionally, the glass’s material properties make the upper space appear lightweight and flexible, forming a visual contrast with the heavy structure of the ground floor and alleviating the potential sense of heaviness the building might bring in a high-altitude environment.

Summit Station: Abandoning U profile glass, Adapting to Integration Needs with Aluminum Panels  Regular GlassThe core design of this station is to seamlessly integrate with the surrounding existing buildings. Therefore, the exterior facade uses aluminum panels to echo the appearance texture of the existing structures, and U profile glass is not adopted. It only achieves indoor lighting through large-area regular glass, which is mainly used to guide tourists to the large diversion ramps, helping them quickly clarify their direction. It focuses more on fulfilling the functions of passenger flow guidance and basic lighting rather than the comprehensive effects of texture, privacy and diffused lighting that U profile glass excels at, aligning with its functional positioning as a transfer hub in the core skiing area.

Overall, the application of U profile glass is concentrated in the two mid-to-low altitude stations facing greater environmental challenges and needing to balance protection and transparency. It not only leverages the advantages of U profile glass such as adapting to special architectural forms and good light transmission but also adapts to the extreme high-altitude environment through material matching. In contrast, the Summit Station selects alternative materials more in line with the overall style based on the core demand of “integrating with existing buildings,” forming a differentiated material application logic.