HYBRID STADIUM & CONCERT HALL

The centerpiece of Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 Park, this 377,000 sf Hybrid stadium is designed to seamlessly convert to a culture and events space once the Games end.

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According to one Chinese scholar, “Philosophers say the smooth expanse between nodes represents virtue, a long distance between faults, and the hollow interior bespeaks modesty and humility.”

MASTERPLAN: Selected from a group of 5 international architecture firms, Archi-Tectonics won this competition for the 2023 Asian Games with a bold and innovative design, fusing landscape and building program into a tridimensional land-form. Like pebbles in a river, two iconic hybrid stadiums are forming the gravitational nodes of the park landscape, they are combined with various other “earth-buildings” [total area of 195,000 m2] ready for the future of Hangzhou.

BODY WITHIN BODY: Rather considering the 35,000m2 stadium as an inert object in the landscape, a white elephant after the Games, Archi-Tectonics NYC envisioned the Hybrid Stadium/Concert Hall as a multi-dimensional body, seamlessly integrating the event spaces into the surrounding park, a new cultural future for the city.

The Hybrid’s geometry was refined through multiple iterations and produced a distinctive asymmetric shape, flexible to a multiplicity of uses and movements. A textured façade was meticulously crafted by cladding the double-curved opaque surfaces with an overlapping brass shingle system, a design that nods both to the ancient Chinese tradition of metalwork and to the future possibilities of hybrid architecture. This brass shingled surface was intersected with a steel and glass diagrid ring, clad with planar glass shards that have triangular “eyelids” negotiating back to the double curved surface. The Hybrid stadium is a model of integrated sustainability, which achieved GBEL 3 Star, equivalent to the LEED Platinum. Envisioned as an organic entity, the stadium autonomously regulates its need for ventilation through sensors, allowing for the natural flow of air, and artificial cooling was minimized, and implemented solely beneath the spectator seats.

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Year: Winner Invited Competition: 2018, Substantial Completion: 2023

Location: Hangzhou, China

Client: Government: Gongshu District City Village Reconstruction Department

Project Type: Hybrid Stadium & Concert Hall

Size: 35,024 m2 (377,000 sf)

Design Team: Principal in charge: Winka Dubbeldam, Assoc. AIA | Project Leader: Justin Korhammer | Team: Paul Starosta, Boden Davies, Dongliang Li, Maud Fonteyne, Soyeon Cha, Alex Bahr, Dan Rothbart, Bowen Qin | Architectural Concept Designer & BIM Expert: Santiago Herrera

Consultants: Structural & Sustainability Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti | Mechanical Engineers: Ryan Soames Engineering | Curtain Wall: Bill Logan, Vidaris Inc. | LDI: Zhejiang Province Institute of Architectural Design and Research (ZIAD) | General Contractor: Zhejiang XinSheng Construction Group

Photography: SFAP Shanghai

Collaborators: UAD group , Hangzhou, China

Renders and Diagrams: Archi-Tectonics | Vidaris

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