How to Start?
The new campus of Shanghai University of Science and Technology is located in Zhangjiang Science and Technology Park, Pudong, Shanghai. Under the control of the master plan, the whole campus must complete the architectural design of individual buildings under the established framework. The sports hall is one of the most special and vital buildings on campus.
Restriction - According to the plan, the sports hall is located in the living area of teachers and students in the eastern part of the University of Science and Technology. Both sides of the sports hall are high-rise dormitory buildings with a distance of only 100m, taking into account sunshine and other factors. It is rather tense for the sports hall.
Image - The west side of the sports hall is facing the semi-open landscape corridor extending east and west of the school. It is the axis-to-view building of the whole campus. It needs to draw a perfect ending for the whole axis and a highlight.
Composition - Planning requires the sports hall to be a circular structure with surrounding dormitory buildings spreading like ripples; at the same time, the track and field football stadium on the east side of the sports hall needs to be equipped with a stadium stand, thus forming a bit of a front-line layout, with the main ring road of the campus crossing, blocking the connection between two sports areas.
Function - The whole campus needs a hall which can accommodate all the teachers and students, and the most suitable role is the sports hall. Therefore, the sports hall needs to be equipped with a certain number of fixed, active seats, and the internal layout of the school needs.
Under the special planning conditions, it is necessary to take into account the functional requirements, image requirements and planning forms of the sports hall. It is also necessary to reduce the impact of noise and sunshine on the surrounding dormitories. It cannot be too high and too large. How to perfectly fit into the beautiful planning environment of the whole campus poses a great challenge to the design.
How to Design?
The design will focus on: tailoring a Sports hall - not too oppressive impact on dormitory buildings, can become the end of the important axis of the whole campus, and can provide a smooth and convenient sharing platform for streamlines and shapes, and create a dynamic and infinite campus charm center.
In order to minimize the pressure on the dormitory buildings on both sides in the tense north-south width restriction, the building is buried one floor and the building height is reduced; and the seats are also arranged in the East-West long direction, emphatically on the West side, increasing the number of seats, not only not occupying the North-South width, but also increasing the number of seats, at the same time raising the height of the West side, so as to make the building modelling table consistent.
In order to meet the functional requirements, the double-center elliptical oblique roof with high West and low East is skillfully constructed, thus forming an important landscape elevation for the West axis. The size of the ellipse is smaller and larger, so that the area of the ground is reduced and as much as possible to be left for outdoor activities.
The auxiliary rooms and other movable rooms on both sides of the building are located on the ground floor and the ground floor, and the roof of the first floor is used to form a gentle slope platform from the ground to the air. The platform extends naturally and extends eastward slowly. Finally, it crosses the campus road and connects directly to the grandstand of the track and field football field. In the shape, with the help of the characteristics of terrain and streamline, the whole plane is designed as a fish tail shape with free stretching.
The end of the tail is the stadium stand. The streamlined platform not only strengthens the connection between the two areas, but also provides an air recreational garden for the campus. The platform rises and falls from the ground, together with the main body of the sports hall, constitutes a swimming fish, playing in the ripples of the dormitory building, wandering in the vibrant green campus, bringing creativity and vitality to the University of Science and Technology, bringing vitality and joy.
Plane Layout
The main stadium of the sports hall, basketball hall, is located in the elliptical volume of the building, from +0.000m to the roof, 46 m long north-south, 34 m wide east-west. Usually, two basketball venues can be arranged. The roof of the basketball hall is inclined, with a net height of 15 m at the lowest point. The game is a basketball court, the long side is north-south layout, the seats are mainly located on the East and West sides, the west side is equipped with two-storey stands and activity stands, the east side is mainly equipped with the rostrum, the inclined layout of the whole seat is to provide suitable conditions for the opening ceremony of the whole school, but also fully in line with the shape gradient.
The basement of the sports hall is equipped with matching functional rooms and activity rooms on the first floor, including referee lounge, male and female athletes lounge, public health room, emergency room, medical room, student activity room, aerobic gym, weight training gym, dance room, yoga room, teacher's office, etc. On the second floor of the sports hall, a coffee bar was designed on the open-air platform. Faced with the green playground, it has a wide view.
The whole building has multiple functions. On the limited land, it can fully tap the potential of space and create the most places for teachers and students to use activities reasonably and efficiently.
Route Design
Because most of the activity planes are located in the underground, in order to naturally guide the flow of people, conveniently and smoothly enter the underground activity sites, but also to meet the needs of fire evacuation, the basement in the West and East side, each opened a sinking square, the west side on the ground, underground each set up a main entrance hall, connected up and down by arc-shaped open stairs.
When there are campus rallies or competitions, the audience flow mainly enters from the west entrance hall of the first floor on the ground and the North-South entrance of the second floor on the ground. Athletes or performers enter from the underground. VIPs and referees enter from the north and south sides of the first floor, so as to realize the multi-level vertical diversion reasonably and skillfully.
Facade & Material
Architectural style is integrated with topographic architecture and landmark image of sports hall. The volume of the main body is an ellipse, and the inverted cone roof increases from bottom to top, and the roof is high in the West and low in the east. Faced with the West side, highlight the sense of spatial volume, create its unique image, make it and the main axis form a counterview effect, become the climax of the spatial sequence of the end of the axis. Facing the east, the sports hall platform extends from the air to the earth, through the gentle curve turning, natural transition, and into the earth and the surrounding environmental system.
The north and south sides of the sports hall are dominated by gentle slopes or steps, which have environmental affinity. The overall shape of the sports hall, combined with the way of topographic architectural design, depicts the streamlined facade through two oblique compositions in the East and West directions, and flexibly presents the image of the campus sports building which is full of vitality and elegant beauty.
Considering the ornamental needs from different angles of the campus, the facade decoration materials mainly use glass curtain wall, perforated aluminum plate, ET board and fair-faced concrete. Among them, the perforated aluminum plate is composed of graceful and gentle wave shape, turning up at the entrance, increasing the proportion of glass curtain wall, strengthening the attraction and guidance of the main entrance, while the wooden Ett plate is used below the ramps on both sides to create a base with affinity.
The colors are vibrant orange and strongly contrasted concrete white, highlighting the lightweight streamlined platform strips, and then decorated with pearlescent Brown perforated panels and blue-grey glass, which set off the elegant and atmospheric main hall building, with rich overall levels, giving people a visual impact and beautiful feast.
In addition, the roof of the sports hall is also a highlight of the design. Considering that the sports hall is located between the high-rise dormitory buildings, students from both directions can overlook the entire sports hall from a high altitude, therefore, the design of the fifth elevation becomes particularly important, seizing the architectural shape.
