National Taitung University is located in the alluvial plain of LiJia river in Taitung, falls somewhere in between mountains and sea. Away from Taitung city, it sited peacefully in the farm field. Students study and live in a form of small independent society. As a result, spatial planning should be strengthened on opportunities of interaction and communication between students. The sports center located on the core location of sports area linking the sports field and basketball courts. Together with the library, the sports center portrays the primarily living field and lake views of the campus.

Sport is an important development direction at Taitung University, and the sports center is the stronghold of after-school life. Therefore, the sports center has three major function components which are gymnasium hall, swimming pool and student union. Spatial concept is to cover these three interspersed blocks with a green floating layer, and to create a cohesive courtyard space, while maintaining the flow of circulation path. Different users can stay in the atrium waiting and chatting, or elastic using this place as a party or performance venues.

The high terrain of building massing slopes towards the Lake, to responses landform expression of library building, also echoes the surrounding mountain scenery. Approaching the sports center from lakeside, you can see the ease up grassy slopes, and the sight is lift up from lakeside to the sky. Follow the grassy slope upward to the top, we can overlook the fields and the distant horizon in front. Looking back, the panoramic mountain views of the campus background is unfolded. Architecture has become a spiritual space which can dialogue with the surrounding environment.