A 116 acre Eco Park for the Asian Games 2022 & Beyond
Selected from a group of 5 international architecture firms, Archi-Tectonics won this competition for the 2022 Asian Games with a bold and innovative design, fusing landscape and building program into a tridimensional land-form. Archi-Tectonics and !Melk landscape architects created an ecological masterplan with a 116-acre [47-hectare] park and 7 buildings into a densely built skyscraper district of Hangzhou, one of China’s fastest-growing cities. Though the park was commissioned for the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games2022, the team looked beyond that event to set a new course for the city’s environmental future. Designed with a ‘Sponge-City’ landscape strategy, the project restores wetlands, re-introduces local vegetation, a hilly oasis programmed for round-the-year recreation that doubles as a green lung restoring the local biome and strengthening its hydrology.
In collaboration with !Melk landscape design, Mobility in Chain, and Thornton Tomasetti structural engineers, the team created a multi-functional 116 acre Eco park with a hybrid stadium / concert hall and a field hockey stadium, a semi-recessed fitness center and visitor center, a shopping ‘valley’ and multiple parking garages, with a total construction area of 2,098,500 sf
Table Tennis Stadium
Archi-Tectonics envisioned the Table Tennis stadium as a multi-dimensional Hybrid, seamlessly integrating the sports & cultural event spaces through a sequence of layers and thresholds into the surrounding park landscape. The intersection of the stadium’s 2 volumes, a glass diagrid- and a brass shingled volume, allow visitors to meander through and to slip into the inner volume with the seating arena, a special shape , a hybrid between a sport arena and theater seating, ready for the future of Hangzhou.
Field Hockey Stadium
Inspired by the strength and elegance of the bamboo Meinong oil-paper umbrella, we developed the Field Hockey Stadium’s roof as a lightweight and diaphanous wing. This self-supporting 375’ wing forms a luminous weather and sun roof above the Field hockey building with its seating arena. The 5000 seat arena is placed into a circular depression within the landscape, an integral part of the surrounding park as topographical landart.
Valley Village Shopping Concept
The stadiums in both halves of the park are connected by a Valley Village mall, an undulating commercial spine , crossing below the existing Yiyang Road and River. This fluid and natural connection . with shops, restaurants, kiosks and underground parking creates not only a seamless circulation during the Asian Games, but also the future success of the project as a lively and active urban artery.
Credits:
Year: Competition won: 2018, Completion: 2021 Opening Games 2022
Location: Hangzhou, China
Client: Government: Gongshu District City Village Reconstruction Department
Project Type: 16-acre eco park with 2 stadiums, shopping mall, visitors and fitness centers, and 2 parking garages for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games
Size: 47 hectare park, 35,000 m2 Table Tennis stadium (5000 seats), 15,000 m2 Field Hockey stadium (5000 seats), 29,000 m2 commercial mall, 23,000 m2 fitness center, and 68,000 m2 underground parking, all with green roofs and natural ventilation
Design Team: Principal in charge: Winka Dubbeldam, Assoc. AIA | Project Leader: Justin Korhammer | Main Designers: Paul Starosta, Max Boerman | Archi-Tectonics Team: Dongliang Li, Maud Fonteyne, Soyeon Cha, Boden Davies, Alex Bahr, Dan Rothbart, Bowen Qin
Consultants:
Structural Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti
Transport Planning: Mobility in Chain, Italy
Mechanical Engineers: Ryan Soames Engineering
Collaborators: !melk Landscape Design | UAD Research group, Hangzhou, China