Abstract
The subway station is not only an effective means to solve urban traffic problems, but also a kind of representative city shelters with a variety of functions such as urban beauty and disaster prevention. At the same time, the subway station as public facilities need activate the urban functions and through the effective design schemes for a variety of the facade of underground entrance to improve users' awareness and reliability for the subway station as a city shelters. This study is conducted to purpose the design direction considering design and disaster preventing characteristics of the underground subway station entrance. In addition, it will provide a basic reference for the subway station in the renovation and construction. The study is composed of literature reviews and field survey. The literature reviews through papers and documents related to the city shelters, the components and characteristics of city shelters, and components and characteristics of facade design of underground entrance at subway station. Before the field survey through the online surveys with evacuation capabilities and screening only the subway station. And field survey is conducted on the site with careful observation and confirmation. Last cluster analysis were applied to the finally selected samples by the SPSS Win18.0
