Shenzhen, China

"LandepNews"

Designed by the GMP Architects, the Universiade Sports Center consists of a stadium, a multifunctional hall and a swimming pool. Universiades are World Games for students and are held every other year in winter and summer, hosted by the International University Sports Federation. The design for the Universiade Sports Center in the city of Shenzhen, China, is inspired by the surrounding undulating countryside and generates a formal dialog that references Chinese horticulture and temper toward the land.

The building rooftop projects up to 65m, and is designed as a steel prismatic shell on a basis of triangular facets. The crystalline frame of the three stadia is additionally emphasized by the lighting of the translucent facades at night. An artificial lake connects the stadium with the spherical multifunctional chamber in the north and the rectangular swimming hall west thereof. The main sports plaza is accessed via a raised promenade from the individual stadia. Total capacity is 60,000, seated in three stands. The diameter of the roof is 310m lengthways also 290 m across. The indoor sports complex is designed as a circular multifunctional scene for indoor sports competitions as well as for ice-skating also other events. The overall facility is approx. 18,000 spectators.

Bao’an Stadium- Visitors pass through the forest of steel supports into the first circulating area of the stadium. With a diameter of 230m besides cantilevering of 54m on each side of the stands, the roof is carried by 36 pairs of cables whose pretensioning is brought rational via a circular dual tension turbulence of strand-bundle cables above the pitch. Opened in August 2011, the stadium is designed to hold a capacity of 40,000 spectators.
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