Musagenitsa Metro Station
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Musagenitsa Metro Station
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

is a station on the Sofia Metro
Sofia Metro
The Sofia Metropolitan is the underground urban railway network servicing the Bulgarian capital Sofia. It is the first and only network of this kind in Bulgaria...

 in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. It was put into operation on May 8, 2009

Location and architectural design

The station is entirely above ground, located on Blvd Andrey Sakharov on the existing bridge. She has one vestibule, whose approach is from the street under the bridge. The station has a predefined functional diagram and dimensions that are determined by the already built a bridge, without the possibility of variant solutions.
The station is compact in form cylinder with oval section, smooth ushirena bulging in the central area of communications.
Performed in an unconventional style of stations whose oval volumes, openwork design, fresh colors and materials create an effect of lightness and vazdushnost. Dynamic alternation of dense and transparent fields emphasizes movement, a combination of clear blue and warm yellow in the interior symbolize the sky, sun, air and light.
The outside facade is transparent blue-green
Blue-green
Blue-green is a color that is a representation of the color that is between blue and green on a typical traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel.Blue-green is belongs to the cyan family of colors....

 tube, covered by thick silver rings. It is covered with a polycarbonate with UV protection and varying degrees of transparency in bilateral etalbond
Etalbond
Etalbond is the brand name for aluminium composite panels made by ELVAL Colour S.A. Composite panels consist of a polymer core bonded between two pre-painted aluminium sheets...

 aluminum siding
Siding
Siding is the outer covering or cladding of a house meant to shed water and protect from the effects of weather. On a building that uses siding, it may act as a key element in the aesthetic beauty of the structure and directly influence its property value....

 with insulation, lighting fixtures with faceted reflectors to protect passengers from the summer heat and the greenhouse effect
Greenhouse effect
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For unknown reasons, the station is only one of all the stations on which it is not possible free transfer from one to the other direction of movement
Direction of movement
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. Above ground. Platform length 102 m

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