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BIT Sports Center in Beijing
24 Nov 2020
BIT Sports Center
Design: Atelier Alter Architects PLLC
Location: Beijing, Northern China

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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.

photo ® 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.
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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...