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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

BIT Sports Center in Beijing, China by Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

 
November 12th, 2020 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Located in Liangxiang, the satellite city of Beijing, the BIT Sports Center, along with the BIT Stadium, frame an entrance to the new BIT campus. The sports center adds about 15,692 square meters athletic space to the school, includes a 3000 seats basketball stadium, a 10 lanes swimming pool, a gymnasium, a martial art space, and rooms for boxing, taekwondo, table tennis, etc.

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  • Architects: Atelier Alter Architects PLLC
  • Project: BIT Sports Center
  • Location: Beijing, China
  • Photography: Weiqi Jin, Highlite Images
  • Software used: Rhino, AutoCAD, Vray for 3ds max
  • Client: Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Architect of Record: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd.
  • Design Consultant: Beijing Hanhua Architectural Design Co.Ltd
  • Design Principal: Yingfan Zhang, Xiaojun Bu
  • Architecture Design Team: Zhenwei Li, Kai Qin, Ping Jiang, Wei Huang, Tongwei Liu, Dehu Du, Jiahe Zhang, Ran Yan, Lairong Zheng, Jiaming Mei, Lidong Song, Xiaoxiao Zhao, Jingshi Zhang, Bida Wei, Wei Xiong, Weidi Chen, Xiaoqing Guo, Xueyun Da, Bo Huang, Leilei Ma, Hui Cao

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  • Structure: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd.
  • MEP: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd.
  • Landscape Architect: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd.
  • Cost: $23,449,011
  • Area: 168,907.3 SF 15692 sqm
  • Project Completion: 07.2019

Image Courtesy © Weiqi Jin

Image Courtesy © Weiqi Jin

BIT is a university focused on military science. The project continues Leonardo Da Vinci’s dialogue on the interdisciplinary discourse between science, architecture and art. After researching on related art and history of material science, the project draws inspiration from Da Vinci’s flying machine, as well as the geometry of trajectory parabola widely used in military science. Accordingly, two sets of parametric surfaces are created to suspend in the air as the roof for the building. The topological volume framed by the two curve layers are constructed through space frame structurally and covered by standing seam roofing from above and aluminum curtain wall system from below. Aluminum are used over roof, cantilever and facade to give a uniform tone to the building and to response to the industrial aesthetic in military science.

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

As the Renaissance man in Da Vinci’s time understood intellects as polymaths excelled both in body and mind, the BIT sports center aims for a “multidimensional open campus” that builds students’ body and mind simultaneously and meanwhile, encourages intercollegiate dialogues among students. By doing that, the architecture creates spatial permeability in both urban and architecture scales, through plan and section. The basketball hall, located at the south east corner of the building, merges the play field with major artery and street life, while the swimming pool at the west is linked to campus central square. Besides urban scale connections, as the seating for basketball hall is elevated for one floor, the programs beneath it are all interconnected and also well connected to the exterior.

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

A horizontal physical and visual permeability, from street to campus, is established at the ground floor. An enclosed entrance promenade, cut between swimming pool and basketball hall, connected north and south campuses together. In the section, the top of basketball seating at the third floor has a large window overlooking the entrance hall and the swimming pool across the hall, as well as the campus beyond the swimming pool. At second, third and fourth floors, the programs behind the swimming pool taekwondo, table tennis and testing center all have different apertures into the swimming pool and also share the skylight from the swimming. With transparent interface, vertical permeability is achieved by nesting programs within one and another in section.

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Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Highlite Images

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Weiqi Jin

Image Courtesy © Weiqi Jin

Image Courtesy © Weiqi Jin

Image Courtesy © Highlite Images

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

Image Courtesy © Atelier Alter Architects PLLC

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