Design Competition

JZFZ Architecture Design Associates, Chengdu, China. 2010

Team: Liang Li, Min Zhang, Yunfeng Shi, David Zhu

Client: Kunming University of Technology

This is a master planing + building design of a Sports Center for KMUT’s new campus. The program includes an indoor arena, a swimming pool, and a training center for students. The outdoor program includes  a field with at least one side of seating, a practice field, several basketball and tennis field, and a roller blade ground. The major challenge of this project was its tight site dimensions. After extensive circulation analysis and site planning studies, we found a holistic solution that uses the site with highest efficiency.

这个项目包含了昆明理工大学新校区体育中心的总图规划和建筑单体的设计。建筑设计的内容有室内体育馆，游泳池，和学生训练中心。场地规划的内容有室外运动场及附属观众席，练习场地，篮球场和网球场若干，以及旱冰场。该项目最大的挑战是有限的场地面积。在进行深入的流线分析和规划尝试之后，我们找到了能够最高效利用场地的解决方案。

Yet another challenge was the extremely short time we had for designing an arena that has complex functions. In order to streamline our internal coordination between floor plans, seating bowl and exterior skin, we explored parametric design workflow, to build a parametric skin + structure for the arena, so that the designs of skin and internal functions can be carried on simultaneously, without worrying substantial re-work because of change in the interior.

另一个现实的挑战则是需要在很短的时间里完成功能复杂的体育馆设计。为了简化设计团队内部在平面，观众席和外表皮之间的协调工作，我们尝试了参数化设计的工作流程，建造了参数化外表皮和结构，从而使得外表皮和内部功能的设计可以同时进行，不必担心因为内部功能的调整而出现大量重复劳动。

The form of the arena was inspired by multifaceted diamond, which will clearly represent the school’s reputation as one of the leading institutes to promote the advancement of mining industry in China. Instead of totally mimicking a gem’s multifaceted surface, a triangulated folded surface was proposed. The structure underneath the skin can be a folded plate system, or its variation. The sparkling effect of a gem is achieved by the glass or metal skin of these triangular faces’ reflection.

体院馆的形式灵感来源于多切割面的钻石，它可以很清晰的体现学校在中国矿物产业技术研发方面的声望。我们并没有完全模仿宝石的多切割面外观，而是采用了折叠三角面，目的是表皮之下的结构可以形成折面结构体，或者它的变体。而宝石的晶莹剔透则由三角面上的玻璃或金属的不同角度的反射来达成。