The project is located in the northern part of the Wuyi University campus in Jiangmen City. It includes a basketball gymnasium and a comprehensive gymnasium. Among them, the building height of the basketball stadium is 23.10m, with one underground floor and two above-ground floors; The building height of the comprehensive gymnasium is 48.40m, with five floors above ground. The two venues are connected through the second-floor platform and organize independent entrance flow lines to achieve spatial connectivity and unity in shape.
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The Gymnasium of Wuyi University
Sports Architecture (Built)
Firm
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SCUT CO., LTD.
Architect/Designer
Jingtang He, Xiaoxin He
Design Team
Lin Lin, Yanyan Liang, Han Zhang, Haiquan Li, Gang Shi, Wenbo Sun, Weixing Zhou, Zhong Yan, Zhaohui Wu, Pujie Huang, Yina Xu, Guoyou Li, Xiaoming Chen, Xinyan Chen, Yingying Liu, Ximei Fan, Guangwei Huang
Location
Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China
Country
China
Photographer/Copyright
©Alpha Photography Studio, Lin Zou
The design uses hollowing, overhead, staggered and other methods to weaken the building volume and reduce the sense of pressure of large volume on the surrounding environment. The building is partially elevated, allowing the campus landscape and line of sight to penetrate and cross, and is also the embodiment of climate adaptation. The project not only has the function of a gymnasium, but also combines three-dimensional greening to become a leisure activity space for students, echoing the open education mode of the new era.
The site where the gymnasium is located was originally the single-storey basketball court of the campus. With the continuous expansion of the scale of the campus, the original sports venues are far from meeting the needs of students. In order to obtain more space for sports activities within the limited campus land, the new gymnasium adopts an intensive and three-dimensional design to increase the indoor sports space, while allowing the campus to retain the original outdoor court land.
Inheriting Lingnan architecture emphasizes flexible, transparent and overhead design techniques. The above-ground building of the gymnasium is composed of five boxes staggered and superimposed, which to some extent reduces the pressure of the oversized volume on the campus environment, including the adjacent dormitory. The cantilevered and elevated boxes form the main entrance space with a height of about 14 meters, and also establish a public activity platform system with different elevations.
The plan of the high-rise training hall comprehensively considers the dimensions of different types of sports venues, and selects the long-span concrete frame structure with one-way two spans (33.6m+17.8m) to make the venue as large as possible and meet the size requirements of different sports venues. The basketball hall adopts the design of the combination of fixed bleachers and active bleachers, which is conducive to the formation of a variety of use modes.
In order to meet the low load operation of the stadium most of the time, we hope to realize the organic combination of beauty and energy saving through the design of the facade. The outer skin adopts glass fiber reinforced concrete prefabricated panel (UHPC), which combines the back-shaped lattice Windows of Lingnan traditional folk houses with the expression of traditional Chinese weaving technology.
In addition to aesthetics, the outer skin with an outer shading coefficient of less than 0.70 plays a good shading role. At the same time, the hollow skin design also improves indoor glare and improves comfort during exercise.