National stadium of beijing competition

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Emerging from the landscape, and shaped by nature, the design will create a simple symbolic link - a bridge - between old and new, between people and country and China with the world.

The design introduces an innovative solution to the provision of temporary seats during the Olympic Games. All the temporary seats are under cover and all seats enjoy excellent views to the field of play. It adopts high technology principles for operational management and interaction with the environment.

he design creates an image of a floating water lilly, surrounded by petals and blossoms, emerging in a gently undulating pond.
The stand installations are built for fixed as well as temporary seating with optimal viewing positions. After its dismantling, a very unique leisure park will be developed.

The design preserves the 45-meter height limitation with the exception of the roof structure, but the bottom rail of the tallest roof section is 99 meters from the competition pitch.

The Stadium will have a total floor area of 164,000 m2, which can accommodate 100,000 spectators. The stadium bowl is partially sunken with a filigree of ramps that link the stands with the surrounding landscape to form open and clear accessibility.

The Olympic Stadium, 79,574 fixed seats are installed on the stand, of which ordinary seats are 72,930 with 500mm width of seats and 850mm depth of rows. If it is needed, temporary stands with 20,740 seats could be added in both the south and the north stands.
Multi-functional development operation after-event is one of the key points in the design proposals. After Olympic Games, this Stadium will offer 11,300m2 of service room to be further developed. The height of this kind of room is nearly 7m, the columns spacing is nearly 9m. They are all spacious room with large span offering favorable conditions for varied operation and development in the future.

The 100,000-seat stadium has been conceived as a two tiered solution with exclusive areas incorporated within. All tiered seats have an unobstructed view of athletics. Lowering the field reduces the amount of “finish skin” on the facility, the vertical scale of the facility, and the height of vertical transportation, easier access to the roads around the stadium.
Within the Grand Hall are two permanent restaurants, open to the hall and surrounding area. The lower tier of seating is continuous, with 42,000 fixed, and 5,000 temporary seats, all accessed through portals.

One of the most unique features of the design is the Sky Terrace. The ability to climb to very top of the roof will provide an experience to the visitor unlike that of any other stadium on Earth.
A concrete structure is proposed to provide an economical yet durable structure with good earthquake resistance. The arrangement of the bowl structural grid has been chosen to allow a significant amount of repetition in the design and construction of the stadium, and the column spacing is generally less than 9.0 m, except in the single bay where the grid transitions from elliptical to circular. The design will utilize locally available materials and labor.

This Stadium total would comprise 80,000 permanent seats and 20,000 temporary seats, including one level of 140 suites. The 20,000 temporary seats are removed it is proposed to install the seats in the outdoor activity center and some special suites, restaurants, clubs and bars in the locations which are higher up in the stadium.
This technology solved the problem of being able to have a natural grass playing field turf of the highest international quality for every soccer game, while at the same time being able to host every kind of multi-use event in the same stadium. This requirement necessitated the complete separation of the field sports uses, from all the other kinds of uses, by having 2 separate functional surfaces which could be changed very quickly and an infinite number of times, without deterioration of the performing surfaces

The configuration of the stadium symbolizes great nature on the earth. Against the backdrop of sunshiny sky, soft white cloud and green hills are the main originality, along with light pillar that penetrates through white cloud creating nice association. All of these constitute a charming landscape and become a new scene in Beijing tallying with the substance that coexistence of Olympic Game and nature.
In order to coordinate with the environment around the park, as much as vire scence should be placed in the planned land.

The National Stadium should be the one that a surrounding feeling is available when someone stays inside of the stadium, he feels that he is surrounded by the environment outside of the stadium. Vice versa, when he stays outside of the stadium he could also feel such a state of competition with excitement and vigor inside of the stadium. Thus, a well arranged space functioning from each other is created.

This proposal is intended to meet these objectives using the symbols of "Heaven" and "Earth".
Our roof is not just a cover for the terraces of the stadium, but the celestial vault of the Universe. This vault incorporates five circles that, at the same time, symbolise the five elements on which Chinese philosophy is based, and the five Olympic rings

The stadium’s appearance is pure structure. Fa?ade and structure are identical. The structural elements mutually support each other and converge into a grid-like formation – almost like a bird's nest with its interwoven twigs. The spatial effect of the stadium is novel and radical and yet simple and of an almost archaic immediacy, thus creating a unique historical landmark for the Olympics 2008.
The stadium is conceived as a large collective vessel, which makes a distinctive and unmistakable impression both when it is seen from a distance and from close up. It meets all the functional and technical requirements of an Olympic National Stadium, but without communicating the insistent sameness of technocratic architecture dominated by large spans and digital screens. The spatial effect of the stadium is novel and radical and yet simple and of an almost archaic immediacy. Its appearance is pure structure. Fa?ade and structure are identical. The structural elements mutually support each other and converge into a grid-like formation, in which fa?ades, stairs and roof are integrated.

The design concept is retrieved from an ancient ritual named "throwing jade into the water", which gives the Stadium rich cultural connotation and turns the place into a spiritual home of people living in a modern city.
The National Stadium will be designed to put athletes above everything else. In the general layout, warm-up areas for athletes are arranged on the north side of the plot area, close to the rooms provided for them inside the National Stadium, which will provide a shorter way for athletes and facilitate their competition.

The Stadium is the Architecture as the eaves, and it protects as many as a hundred thousand people in the periphery from the rains, cold wind of winter, and hot sunshine of summer. The Stadium is the symbol of the attitude greeting all the people.
The Architecture succeeds the sense of the Quadrangle cosmology. It opens the earth to the universe, and harmonizes the pure form with the dynamic action of the wings. The wings of the roof, corresponding to four blocks of the stadium, lead up to various modes. During the Olympics, temporary seats are installed on the wings. At ordinary time, the wings function to stabilize the climate of the field. When the wings are open, they leave no rails or structures behind the space they occupied.