【 Case appreciation 】 Hangzhou Asian Games Baseball and Softball Sports Culture Center

The 19th Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8, 2023. Hangzhou Asian Games Baseball and Softball Sports and Culture Center, as the largest new venue of the Asian Games, is also the largest baseball and softball sports center with the highest standard and the most advanced facilities in China. It will inject new vitality into the surrounding community and make sports become the cultural background of the surrounding.

The project is located at the junction of Keqiao District and Jinghu New District, Shaoxing, and is an important node and supporting facility in the future baseball community planned for construction. The total construction area is about 136,000 square meters, which is divided into two plots A and E. Plot A is mainly constructed with baseball main and auxiliary fields, physical training hall and supporting hotels; Plot E is mainly for the construction of softball main and auxiliary fields. As a sports and cultural park open to the public, the site as a whole does not have walls, whether it is a sports and cultural commercial street or a second-floor platform connecting various venues, the public can enter at any time, zero distance experience.

The venues are woven together by a ribbon-like, two-story public platform and are connected to the city streets as part of the street network. The architectural facade extracts curvilinear elements from traditional cultural symbols such as silk ribbon, scroll and tile roof, and uses curved perforated aluminum sheet material to create the image of Jiangnan with continuous waves. The perforated patterns of different proportions and forms of perforated aluminum plates give the facade a unique technical rhythm, continue the poetry of traditional textile craftsmen, and evoke the memory of regional culture.

The huge canopy above the venue is a major difficulty in this design. The bidirectional truss structure system, with a maximum suspension of 16 meters, is supported by thin steel columns. The top surface is covered with PTFE film coated with titanium dioxide, with a total area of 21,000 square meters. Each unit is slightly raised in the middle, looking from a distance like the ripples created by the breeze blowing across the water, a metaphor for the regional characteristics of Shaoxing water town.

The underside of the canopy is covered with curved white perforated aluminum panels, and the sky light diffuses through the canopy to create a rich layer of light and shadow. The translucent visual effect can eliminate the sense of oppression brought by the huge volume, and the blurred boundary between the sky is more hazy and light. The slender white structural columns look like sky light through the clouds, creating a sense of lightness and breathing. At night, in the rich LED lighting, the canopy is bright and transparent, providing a unique spectator experience during the game.

The surface curvature of the canopy is calculated by the simulation of rain and sunshine, which determines the form prototype of the middle high and the circumference low, so as to achieve the best drainage and sunshade effect. The thickest of the slender steel columns is the structural column, and the rest is the drainage tube, the cable tube and the decorative column, and the different pipe diameters represent the different functions that they undertake. The space atmosphere is clean and pure, dense and harmonious, as if shuttling through the bamboo forest. Viewed from a distance, the entire canopy seems to float above the venue, and it is like a white cloud wing, shading the entire venue under it.

The project will integrate it into the city from the perspective of the sports community, and will build on the warp and weft of the city, community and cultural factors. The "wings of the cloud" are resting on the water town, anchoring the natural relationship between the place and the city, eliminating the gap between the two, and thus the dynamic sports community is born.

Project name: Hangzhou Asian Games Baseball Softball Sports and Cultural Center

Project address: Shaoxing, Zhejiang

Construction area: 160,139.1 ㎡

Designer: UAD G4 (Architectural Design and Research Institute - Fourth School of Architecture, Zhejiang University)

Membrane structure construction unit: Ningbo Wanhao Spatial Structure Engineering Co., LTD

Project Design: 2020.01

Completed year: 2022.12

Design Team:

Design Chief: Dong Danshen, Qian Xidong

Host design, project chief creator: Qian Xidong

Project leader: Zhou Jiawei, Huang Kejie, Yu Haitao

Structural Design: XIAO Zhibin, FAN Qiguang, Shen Handong, LI Jianjian, GUO Jiapeng, Chen Peiwei

Water supply and drainage design: YI Jiasong, Liu Peiju, Zhang Zhenyu, Zhang Zehang

Hvac Design: Yang Yi, Yi Kai, Lu Guangyu, Huang Yunzhou, Yan Yanqiu, Liu Lu

Electrical Design: Li Ping, Feng Baile, Zhang Qiang, Zhang Lingyan, Wang Bin, Deng Zhouning, Hou Bokai

Geotechnical Design: XU Qian-Biao, ZENG Kai, Chen Sheng-Xian, XU Hao-nan

Intelligent design: Ni Gaojun, Ma Jian

Interior Design: Li Dan, Xu Wei, Wang Lijun, Zhang Heng, Zhang Zhenwei, Lv Wenjia

Curtain Wall Design: Bai Qi 'an, Xiang Chun, Jiang Qianyang, Zhang Nan, Zhang Pengfei, Cao Dongqiu

Sports technology: Beijing Huatiang Research Engineering Design Consulting Co., LTD

Landscape Design: Shangchen Engineering Design Group Co., LTD

Floodlight design: Hangzhou Blue Sky Garden Construction Co., LTD

Logo design: Hangzhou Durian Brand Planning Co., LTD

Photography copyright: Zhao Qiang

Customer: Shaoxing Baseball Field Construction and Operation Co., LTD

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