X-treme Sports Centre,
China
Images : Information Based Architecture
Project details
120.000sqm site area incl. Velodrome, Game-Management centre, Extreme
Sport Center and Sport Park for Asian Games with Rollerskating rink, BMX
track, Mountain biking, Rock climbing and volunteer centre.
Total gross floor area 33,300 sqm
Client:
Guangzhou Key Public Projects Construction Administration Office &
Guangzhou Sports Bureau.
The Competition -
Selected as one of three winners in invited international competition
for the Guangzhou Cycling, Roller Skating and Extreme Sport Center
The complex consists of a 15.200 sqm Velodrome and Rollerskating arena,
an 11.500 sqm extreme sport Center, a 6.600 sqm Office building for the
Game management of the Asian Games. Furthermore are there facilities planned
for BMX, rock climbing and mountainbiking and a volunteer and academic
exchange center.
Total land area : 152,992 sqm Competition is ongoing.
sustainability -
The concept is a porous monolithic 160m single span shell that integrates
the esthetic, structural, spatial and lighting requirements into one simple
but complex solution
This project is a perfect example of our office objective to come to a
kind of bio-intelligenge. An intelligence inherent in biological evolution.
One could call our methodology: Anti-design. A methodology that stands
perpendicular to the unsustainable Modernist strategies of hacking things
to bits, and splitting problems up, while in the process loosing the coherence
and many characteristic qualities. Quite the opposite, we attempt to create
design that searches for coherence and tries to integrate information
into one singular simple but complex solution. This is a much more efficient,
sustainable and value generating process.
Project Credits
Information Based Architecture
Design: Mark Hemel, Barbara Kuit
Collaborators: Patty Lui, Camille Maury, Howard Chung, Corina Popa
3D modelling: Ran Ankori, Maurits Fennis
In cooperation with Guangzhou Design Institute &
Ove Arup HK & Partners on structure and engineering services
Guangzhou TV tower
by the same architects
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