Architecture Design

XILI SPORTS AND CULTURAL CENTRE IN SHENZHEN BY MVRDV

Located in a residential area along the Dasha Green Corridor, which stretches from the Nanshanmountain park to the Yangtai mountain park, the soon-to-be realised Xili Sports and Cultural Centre, Shenzhen is an experience centre for sports, well-being, leisure and culture seeking to achieve profound connections between nature, sports and culture, thus serving wide-ranging age groups and interests. These new sports centres fit into these developments focusing on a better quality of life.

The City’s boom as an economic powerhouse has given rise to high-density usage, with stadium-sized sports arenas to match. There is now a need for a more human-centred approach, the challenge was to go from bigness to compression through understanding urbanism. MVRDV’s design for the densification and development of a sports and cultural centre responds to the growing demand for fitness sports venues, with the intention of introducing a more fun, human, social and sustainable model that departs from populist Olympic-sized sports arenas. Exercise is still the main function here, but interaction within singular spaces gives way for more open zones, where different sports and social activities can occur.

The centre is an urban interface that allows for flexible use during different time frames, crossing boundaries between sports and culture, whilst strengthening the community by encouraging locals and visitors to interact in these multifunctional spaces. The 105,000m2 centre consists of a 20,000m2 theatre-amphitheatre, 15,000m2 Basketball Badminton arena, 10,000m2 multifunctional arena and 6,000m2 swimming pool, presenting a dynamic public space with multiple layers. During the day, on the evenings or at weekends, different groups of people with different needs can also serve as a guideline for programming of the collective spaces.

A special elevated running track is the signature element of the complex as it connects, weaves in and out of all volumes. It also invites people to go for an exciting run around the complex, relax and socialise both inside and outside. MVRDV’s team worked with co-architects, Zhubo Architecture Design who are renowned for their influential works in Shenzhen and throughout China, alongside adopting a humanistic approach to the effect of the design and construction process on health, well-being and fitness. Xili Sports and Cultural Centre will be MVRDV’s first project under construction in Shenzhen, starting in 2017. Source by MVRDV.

Location: Xili, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China.
Architects: MVRDV
Project Team: Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries, Wenchian Shi, Gustavo van Staveren, Tiantian Zhang, Daehee Suk, Duong Vu Hong, Patryk Slusarski, Xiaoting Chen, Mikel Vazquez, Bowen Zhu
Co-architect: Zhubo Architecture Design
Client: Shenzhen Nanshan Government
Area: total surface area of 105,000 m2 (20,000m2 theatre-amphitheatre, 15,000m2 Basketball-Badminton arena, 10,000m2 multifunctional arena and 6,000m2 swimming pool, presenting a dynamic public space with multiple layers)
Year: 2017 +
Images: Courtesy of MVRDV.

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Educational and Sport Centre for Youth

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Educational and Sport Centre for Youth

by Lusine Baghdasaryan & Aram Shahoyan

Educational and Sport Centre for Youth

I chose the theme of the project, because I’m a citizen of the city Artashat and know the major problems of the city, of which the most important are the residents with great scarcity of jobs and the development of young people.

While for the project area selection, were taken into consideration these factors benefits, such as the proximity of the stadium of the city, and the secondary school № 3, the large surface area in poor condition not used, the sight of Mount Ararat as background, now hidden by some existing buildings.

Another important aspect is that the main road linking the capital Yerevan Artashat. The project pays attention to the climate which is quite dry with hot summers and cold winters. To solve this problem, in most of the area will be planted with trees and shrubs, and there is also a small pond near the building.

Educational and Sport Centre for Youth, Lusine Baghdasaryan, Aram Shahoyan

This will mitigate climate city and together with the solution of this problem, including green roofs, which are designed in particular in the field of dance, will protect the interior of the building from the summer heat and winter cold. The center is made up of academic fields, cultural and sporting activities.

The sector Dance and Sport are close but far away from the education department, so departments noisy are separate from silent building. The general view of the building looks like a specific type of cloud called lenticular clouds, due to which the educational department of the palace received in the form of a terrace.

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The Education Department has four floors, each floor has a height of 4.5 meters, which gives the total height of 18 meters. As a result the picturesque view of Mount Ararat might be closed, however, due to the shape terrace, the visual height of the building department seems to be lower.

In the project area is chosen the position of the building to give the effect of perspective. The roof of the dance department is designed in the form of a ramp, which is directed by the sign of the ground to the roof of the passage overgound that connects all the buildings department together. It will also serve as an observation deck.

In the middle of the department of education has also been designed as a flight of winding main communication system. The number of ramps and lifts is based on the fact that the Cener is designed for disabled. There is also a two-storey exhibition hall located in the basement, so that the sun’s rays do not damage the images displayed.

However, it has also a source of natural lighting and ventilation. The project includes the following sections, cultural and sporting academics: Chess, Computer, skills, foreign languages, Library, sculpture and painting, gallery, dance, wrestling, volleyball and basketball courts, swimming pool. Courtesy by Aram Shahoyan.