Not only does the stadium lack a large enough plaza, it is also sunken into the ground to make room for planes flying in and out of Songshan airport. Had they chosen a different site, the current location of the CKS memorial hall for example, or scrapped the Songshan airport, we wouldnât have this issue.
Having the ball park sunken under ground means in an emergency people not only had to move outside of the building, they would also have to climb up towards the ground level while doing it.
The underground tunnel would have to turn the North side of the SYS memorial hall plaza into an exit for the Taipei dome. The SYS memorial hall outside of the Taipei city governmentâs control. The central government certainly has the right to question why they must sacrifice a plaza just because Farglory altered the original design.
However, Mayor Ko turned it into an political weapon and attacked the central government for delaying the project, which is ridiculous.
The real culprit is delaying the project is Farglory and people who enabled Farglory to hijack the Taipei city government.
By the way, in the memo that Koâs city government signed with Farglory in 2014, the underground tunnels to SYS memorial hall was listed to be something the Taipei City Government is contractually obligated to fulfill.
This oversight has became the Achillesâ heel to Koâs negotiations with Farglory. Not only did Farglory successfully shifted their obligation to save enough evacuation space to the city government, they can now blame any delays on the city government for not completing the underground tunnels according to the contract.
Originally the underground tunnels was to be 80m wide. However, the gate connecting the dome structure to the tunnels was only to be 18m wide, drastically decreasing emergency throughput. As if that wasnât bad enough, the city government later decided to allocate 54m of the underground tunnel to shops and toilets, reducing actual passage to just 26 meters wide.
It was these decisions that created the need to remove more old trees to make room for the evacuation.
There are areas in Taipei designated to be on the flight paths in and out Songshan airport, and as a result, buildings have a height restriction of 60m, which was later loosened to 90m in some areas.
However, that doesnât include the area Taipei Dome is at. Thatâs why the Taipei Dome is just 60m tall from the level of the roads up. That is not tall enough for a baseball stadium. To remedy that they dug 10 meters down and thatâs the level of the field.
Currently the 60m and 90m restriction zones looks like this. When the dome was being planned, all was under the 60m restriction. Taipei Dome is right under the eye shaped roads which is the Taipei Railway Workshop. This map is not to scale, but some of the areas to the right side of the dome might be outside the height restriction zone.
They might also have limited to height of the dome to avoid completely blocking the skyline behind SYS memorial hall.
We might need to find a more accurate map to make that claim. As far as I know, it was always described to be within the height restriction area in news articles.
Take this more to scale map for example, it seems like the height limit extends beyond Chunghsio East Rd.
It is a completely different building. Nothing is the same. Thatâs the trick, ask permit for blueprint, than just make something up as you go along building it. Or have blueprint B in a drawer.
Or some mysterious feng shui issue mustâve been at play to turn the field 180 degrees.
Not just different building, but different space planning as well. The current Farglory design slashed 17,352m² worth of open space from the Takenaka Corp. design.
The Farglory design allocated much more space to other commercial buildings.
Yeah, especially when an indoor stadium with a fixed roof structure doesnât need to worry about afternoon sun light. So the home plate can face any direction they want.
