Symbiosis • Inclusion • Vitality - Spatial Exploration of Qingdao Zhangcunhe Community Sports Center
Qingdao • Shandong • China • 2024
The community sports center is located at the western gateway of the core area of Zhangcun River in Qingdao City, with Zhangcun River in the north, Qingyin Expressway in the west, and the city center and mountains in the east. Starting from the "holistic architecture" approach, the project focuses on the community and the city, aiming to create a sports and cultural complex that integrates urban characteristics, community sharing, internal and external interweaving, and ecological cultivation, and contributes to the construction of vibrant public spaces.
Status: Ongoing
Time: 2024
Client: Qingdao Caikun Urban Construction and Development Co., Ltd
Type: Bid/Finalist
Contents: Cultural Buildings / Sports Buildings / Landmark Buildings / Mixed-use Buildings / Urban Renewal / Ecological Restoration
GFA / plot area: 18,371 m² / 18,343 m²
Winner: MAA's Latest New Building
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A dialogue between the city and nature
The building unfolds along the riverbank in a simple and tense fan-shaped posture, which not only effectively alleviates the adverse effects of the elevated road on the west side, but also forms a dialogue with the cultural and art museum complex on the other side of the river. The gaps between the buildings create a spatial link between the southern community and the river on the north side, and the commercial street on the south side further activates the community living atmosphere. A pedestrian bridge across the city road at the southeast corner of the project connects the campus to the sports center, making the sports center a second sports space for students after their daily studies.
A thorough sports experience
The three building volumes are developed with three main functions: a badminton hall, a basketball hall and a swimming pool, and the layered layout forms a rich roof platform space. The indoor and outdoor sports venues are connected to each other through barrier-free trails, and the space experience is three-dimensional and diverse. Characteristic climbing walls are embedded between the volumes, with skatepark, parent-child playground and square dance venues, truly realizing the "all-weather, multi-dimensional, all-age" sports experience and creating a vibrant three-dimensional sports park.
A modern expression of the artistic conception of mountains and seas
The design draws on the characteristic artistic conception of Qingdao's "mountains and seas", and the three blocks are stacked layer by layer, like Laoshan boulders stacked and staggered, and the gaps are like deep canyons; The fan-shaped architectural form is as light and agile as the shadow of a sail on the sea, echoing Qingdao's reputation as a "sailing capital". The façade of the building is supported by a solid stone base, with a cantilevered glass curtain wall and a double-layer skin of metal perforated panels.
Innovative integration of ecology and technology
The community sports center implements the concept of green ecology and low-carbon energy saving, and adopts natural ventilation and energy-saving lighting design to create a comfortable and pleasant indoor and outdoor space. The venue adopts a unified large-span space design, which is convenient for flexible conversion of future functions. The steel structure space truss of the roof effectively reduces the construction cost, and the façade adopts a horizontal grid and a double-layer skin system to effectively control the indoor light and temperature, and create an ecological and comfortable sports environment.
The future Zhangcunhe Community Sports Center is not only a sports venue, but also a public platform for the interaction and integration of the city and nature, the community and the residents. After the completion of the project, it will become an important landmark in the region, provide citizens with a dynamic space for sustainable development, and become an exemplary landmark project in the comprehensive treatment project of Zhangcun River.
