Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus by Jian Wu

Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus by Jian Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Architectura Competition Category.

ArgentumArchitectura· 2022

Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus

by Jian Wu

Client: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Design and Research Institute

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Architectura Category

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The Design

About Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus

Centrum Olympicum Qingdao Pingdu est complexus athleticus in Pingdu, Qingdao, provincia Shandong, in Sinis, exstructus. Complexus stadium quindecim milium sedilium, aulam pilamalleariam septem milium sedilium, et natatorium mille quingentorum sedilium continet. Aula pilamallearia et piscina natatoria in unum aedificium coniunguntur, quod differentiam magnitudinis inter voluminum minuit et terram pro areis viisque internis servat. Spatia primaria et spatia auxiliaria separantur, ita ut intervalla structuralia breviora sint atque aedificatio simplicior. Descriptio etiam usum cotidianum flexibilem post spectacula sustinet.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center Complexus Athleticus creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This project is one of the competition venues for the 34th Provincial Games in Shandong Province. By combining swimming pool and basketball gym, the layout is transformed from "one venue-two pavilions" to "one venue-one pavilion". On the one hand, the imbalance of architectural size of these three buildings is avoided. On the other hand, it also forms the frugality of public square and internal transportation land, so as to effectively save land resources.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project is one of the competition venues for the 34th Provincial Games in Shandong Province. The construction content includes: 15,000-seats stadium (floor area: 48,000 square meters), 7,000-seats basketball hall (floor area: 37,500 square meters) and 1,500-seats natatorium (floor area: 11,500 square meters). On this basis, it is also required to provide activity square and specialized assembly and escape square for each venue, and decorate the necessary outdoor activity spaces.
Tags: Social resource, Architecture form, Build bigness based on smallness, Essential function, Auxiliary function.
Production Technology: The relative separation of large and small space creates technical convenience for the construction. The auxiliary functional space is constructed with multi-layer frame system, which is simple and convenient to construct. At the same time, due to its relative independence, the required structural span for the core functional space is reduced to a certain extent, thus effectively reducing the construction technology difficulties and structural cost of large-span space. The stadium structure model, forming a unit structure integrated system, and combining two different structural systems into a relatively independent complete system.
Design Challenge: Through the analysis of same kind of Olympic sports centers, the existing problems are mainly focused on the following points: "larger scale construction vs lower efficiency", "much more constructive technical difficulty vs lower completion of construction", "higher professional degrees of competition space vs less flexibility in daily use". To answer these questions, in the design of Pingdu Olympic Sports Center, the core functional and auxiliary elements are divided. Through simulating and analyzing spatial organization mode, construction mode, usage mode according to functional elements, and comparing the benefit of scale, construction and usage, the comprehensive benefit of architecture is promoted.
Research: This paper takes "Social resource organization and Building form generation" as a group of objects for overall thinking, and applies it in combination with practical case. On the basis of summarizing the main building functional components and analyzing and upgrading their organization methods, the design concept of "Build bigness based on smallness" was derived, and the generation of architectural space form was conducted. This research model establishes internal relations and constraints between intangible social resources and tangible architectural forms, forming a unity of theory and practice.
Inspiration: This project is one of the first experimental construction results of the purposeful integration of "spatial efficiency" theory with design practice. The theory suggests that cities and buildings are the results of "comprehensive utilization and transformation of social resources". It is an important index to evaluate the rationality of urban and architectural form, whether the "social resources" can form an optimization utilization mode and produce good usage effect.
Project Duration: Time of design: 02/2016-07/2016
Time of construction: 09/2016-05/2018
Location: Pingdu, Qingdao city, Shandong Province, China
Operation Flow: The gymnasium offers a variety of use possibilities. First, the basketball hall can provide plenty of spatial layout modes to meet the requirements of assembly activities with different sizes and types. Second, the combination possibilities of core functional space and auxiliary space are able to be divided and combined, taking into account the different needs of event and daily use. Finally, through the combination of the core functional space, a variety of experiences of watching games are created, so as to enhance the richness of space perception.
Team Members: Jian Wu
Liang Li
Youjun Yang
Yi Wang
Guan Gong
Fuxi Chen
Qiang Dong
Jun Zhou
Xingyong Ai
Ronghai Dou
Gangfeng Gao
Erwei Zhang
Zhi Zhou
Chong Ma
Yangliu Xie
Xiaohao Meng
Wei Yuan
Yingchao Li
He Huang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Wu Qingshan and Wang Ze.
Image #2: Photographer Wu Qingshan and Wang Ze.
Image #3: Photographer Wu Qingshan and Wang Ze.
Image #4: Photographer Wu Qingshan and Wang Ze.
Image #5: Photographer Wu Qingshan and Wang Ze.