Appearance Design of Subway Trains Based on Tianfu Culture Bionics and Shape Grammar

YIN Yu; XU Yongsheng; YAN Yupeng; ZHANG Yinghao; XIONG Zhi; GAO Pengfei

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.06.002

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6) : 9-17. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.06.002

Industrial Design

Appearance Design of Subway Trains Based on Tianfu Culture Bionics and Shape Grammar

YIN Yu, XU Yongsheng^*, YAN Yupeng, ZHANG Yinghao, XIONG Zhi, GAO Pengfei

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To address the issues of insufficient exploration and expression of regional culture in the appearance design of urban subways, the work aims to propose a method to effectively integrate the Tianfu regional culture into the appearance design of Chengdu subways, so as to enhance the city image by designing representative subway appearances and inherit and revitalize the Tianfu culture. Firstly, the theoretical knowledge such as the connotation of Tianfu culture, cultural bionics, and shape grammar was systematically reviewed. Secondly, through the analysis of typical subway appearance design cases, literature analysis and online research, typical Tianfu cultural elements were collected. The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method was used to solve and clearly extract the cultural carriers of the four evaluation factors of subway appearance design (design aesthetics, cultural representativeness, recognition degree, and emotional value), and the shape grammar deduction rules were utilized to integrate the deduced shapes into the subway appearance design. Finally, experts and passengers were invited to rate the scheme, and the results showed that this design scheme performed excellently in the expression of regional culture and the recognition of passengers, significantly enhancing the regional cultural characteristics of the urban subways, and verifying the effectiveness of this method in enhancing the influence of Tianfu culture.

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cultural bionics / shape grammar / urban subway / Tianfu culture / fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method

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YIN Yu, XU Yongsheng, YAN Yupeng, ZHANG Yinghao, XIONG Zhi, GAO Pengfei. Appearance Design of Subway Trains Based on Tianfu Culture Bionics and Shape Grammar[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2026, 47(6): 9-17 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.06.002

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