Soriano & Arquitectos Asociados (S&Aa) has unveiled its plans for 'The Pitcher?s Mounds' a project that received fourth place in a competition to design the Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadiums and Training Centers in Taiwan.

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Soriano & Arquitectos Asociados (S&Aa) has unveiled its plans for 'The Pitcher?s Mounds' a project that received fourth place in a competition to design the Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadiums and Training Centers in Taiwan.

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In an effort to ?return to the origins? of the playing field?a horizontally-based, natural concept rather than the vertical and enclosed idea of a stadium?the design of the complex is conceptualized as an urban garden. A sports stadium for baseball, soccer, or swimming is not a building. But a landscape instead. Hence, a set of sports stadiums is an urban park, an urban garden -  explains the architect in a media release. 
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The stadiums, training facilities, and other related programs are arranged in ?a landscape of soft hills and waves,? with each program occupying its own ellipse-shaped area. These ellipses of varying sizes are arranged and layered according to three subcategories: natural landscapes, such as lakes and gardens, artificial landscapes, like stadiums, and...