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BIT Sports Center
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Public Building / Sports & Leisure Building : Bronze Certification
Located in Liangxiang, the satellite city of Beijing, the BIT Sports Center, along with the BIT Stadium, frame an entrance to the new BIT campus. The sports center adds about 15,692 square meters athletic space to the school, includes a 3000 seats basketball stadium, a 10 lanes swimming pool, a gymnasium, a martial art space, and rooms for boxing, taekwondo, table tennis, etc.
BIT is a university focused on military science. The project continues Leonardo Da Vinci’s dialogue on the interdisciplinary discourse between science, architecture and art. After researching on related art and history of material science, the project draws inspiration from Da Vinci’s flying machine, as well as the geometry of trajectory parabola widely used in military science. Accordingly, two sets of parametric surfaces are created to suspend in the air as the roof for the building. The topological volume framed by the two curve layers are constructed through space frame structurally and covered by standing seam roofing from above and aluminum curtain wall system from below. Aluminum are used over roof, cantilever and facade to give a uniform tone to the building and to response to the industrial aesthetic in military science.
As the Renaissance man in Da Vinci’s time understood intellects as polymaths excelled both in body and mind, the BIT sports center aims for a “multidimensional open campus” that builds students’ body and mind simultaneously and encourages intercollegiate dialogues.
Collaboration
Architect : Atelier Alter Architects
Interior Designer : Atelier Alter Architects
Landscape Architecture : China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd.
Lighting : Jingyunyoujin Lighting Technology
Lighting : Zhongchen Yuanzhan (Beijing) Lighting Design Co. Ltd
Acoustics : China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd.
General Contractor : Beijing Construction Engineering Group CO. Ltd (BCEG)
Photographer : Highlite Images
Photographer : Weiqi Jin
