About a month ago i posted about the ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium, Now its time for the National aquatic center, Otherwise known as the ‘Water Cube’ The blue bubble wrapped National Aquatics Centre took four years to build. The 17000-seat venue will host swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo during the August 8-24 Games and 42 gold medals will be awarded there. It has a 3m deep competition pool, a warm-up pool and a diving pool.
The building's structural design is based on the natural formation of soap bubbles and gives the venue its name, To bring the design to life, the individual bubbles are incorporated into a plastic film and tailored like a sewing pattern. An entire section is pieced together and then put into place within the structure. There are interior and exterior films, and the film is then inflated once it is in-situ. It will be continuously pumped thereafter.
The building's structural design is based on the natural formation of soap bubbles and gives the venue its name, To bring the design to life, the individual bubbles are incorporated into a plastic film and tailored like a sewing pattern. An entire section is pieced together and then put into place within the structure. There are interior and exterior films, and the film is then inflated once it is in-situ. It will be continuously pumped thereafter.This was a very ambitious project in terms of the construction technology, The eco-friendly structure’s translucent shell allows in sunlight, providing heat and light and cutting energy use by up to 30%.
Truly another icon to put Beijing on the map.
That's pretty amazing architecture. I love the way the ceiling looks.
ReplyDeleteGood morning New Zealand! Amazing architecture in the Water Cube...I've been fascinated with Olympic Architecture for a long time now. Every Olympic Games seems to have a signature cutting-edge building...In Lillehammer they had the ice arena, in Calgary it was the Saddle Dome, definitely the Water Cube looks like it's goint to push the envelope nicely.
ReplyDeleteG'day!
David,
ReplyDeleteYour post on the Water-Cube inspired me to make my own post on Olympic Architecture...I've credited you with the idea and linked back to you in my own post this morning. Have a great night in Auckland!
It is awesome. Creativity
ReplyDeleteThis is so amazing. Wow! It'd be well worth a visit to see that in person.
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