Water cube:
Name of venue: National Aquatics Center
Commonly known as: water cube.
Construction site: Olympic Sports Park.
Venue type: newly-built competition venue park
Building area (m2): 79,532
Games-time functions: swimming, diving and synchronized swimming.
Uses during the Olympic Games: swimming, diving, synchronized swimming.
Uses during the Paralympic Games: swimming, diving and synchronized swimming.
Fixed number of seats: 4,000 (permanent) and 2,000 (movable)
Number of temporary seats: 1 1000.
Start time: 65438+February 24th, 2003.
Completion time: 65438+20081October 28th.
English name: National watching Center
Investment: about 65.438+0.02 billion yuan (about 850 million yuan donated by all sectors of society).
Employer: Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd
Design unit: China Architectural Design Consortium.
General contractor: China Construction No.1 Bureau Construction Development Co., Ltd.
The National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, is located in Beijing Olympic Park. It is the main swimming pool built by Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and it is also one of the landmark buildings of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Its design scheme is the "Water Cube" ([H2O]3) scheme produced by the global design competition. Construction started on February 24th, 2003 and was completed on October 28th, 2008. It and the National Stadium (commonly known as the Bird's Nest) are located on both sides of the northern end of Beijing's central axis, which together form a relatively complete image of Beijing's historical and cultural city. The planned construction land of the National Swimming Center is 62,950 square meters, with a total construction area of 65,000-80,000 square meters, of which the underground construction area is not less than15,000 square meters, and the length, width and height are177m× 30m respectively. Up to now, more than 350,000 compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese in10/countries and regions have donated 940 million yuan. Among them, Zheng Yutong, Zheng Jiachun and his son and their subordinate enterprises donated 50 million yuan.
Bird's Nest: Venue Name: National Stadium (Bird's Nest)
Construction site: No.3 A, anding road, Chaoyang District, Beijing (in Beijing Olympic Park, north of Asian Games Village).
Building area (ten thousand square meters): 25.8. Number of seats: 80,000 permanent seats and 1 1000 temporary seats.
Games-time functions: track and field, football
Post-game functions: international and domestic sports competitions and cultural and recreational activities.
The external structure of "Bird's Nest" is mainly composed of huge portal steel frame, with 24 truss columns, 20 truss columns and 2 lower columns have been hoisted. The top of the National Stadium is saddle-shaped, with a major axis of 332.3 meters, a minor axis of 296.4 meters, a height of 68.5 meters at the highest point and a height of 42.8 meters at the lowest point ... On the premise of keeping the architectural style of the "Bird's Nest" unchanged, the new design scheme has greatly adjusted and optimized the structural layout, building cross-sectional form and material utilization rate. The openable roof in the original design scheme was cancelled, the opening of the roof was increased, and the steel consumption was greatly reduced by optimizing the steel structure. The long-span roof is supported on 24 truss columns with an interval of 37.96 meters. The main trusses are radially arranged around the opening in the middle of the roof, and 22 main trusses are straight or nearly straight. In order to avoid too complicated joints, a few main trusses are truncated near the inner ring. A large number of steel structures are box-shaped members welded by steel plates, and the cross-arranged main trusses, together with the substructure of the roof and facade, form a special architectural shape of "Bird's Nest". The main stand adopts reinforced concrete frame-shear wall structure system, which is completely separated from long-span steel structure.
The Bird's Nest is the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The design of the giant stadium, which was jointly completed by Herzog and De Mellon, winners of Plic Prize in 20001year, and China architect Li Xinggang (the chief designer of China District), is like a "bird's nest" that breeds life, and more like a cradle.
With human hope for the future. The designer did not do any unnecessary treatment to the National Stadium, but frankly exposed the structure, thus naturally forming the appearance of the building.