Water Cube Tour (Beijing National Aquatics Center, Beijing Olympic Park)
The Beijing National Aquatics Center / 北京国家游泳中心 or Water Cube / 水立方, also officially known as the National Aquatics Center, is an aquatics center that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Despite its nickname, the building is not an actual cube, but a cuboid (a rectangular box). Ground was broken on December 24, 2003, and the Center was completed and handed over for use on January 28, 2008. Swimmers at the Water Cube broke 25 world records during the 2008 Olympics.
After the 2008 Olympics, the building underwent a 200 million Yuan revamp to turn half of its interior into a water park. The building officially reopened on August 8, 2010. It will host the curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Comprising a steel space frame, it is the largest ETFE clad structure in the world with over 100,000 m² of ETFE pillows that are only 0.2 mm (1/125 of an inch) in total thickness. The ETFE cladding, supplied and installed by the firm Vector Foiltec, allows more light and heat penetration than traditional glass, resulting in a 30% decrease in energy costs.
The outer wall is based on the Weaire–Phelan structure, a structure devised from the natural pattern of bubbles in soap lather. In the true Weaire-Phelan structure the edge of each cell is curved in order to maintain 109.5 degree angles at each vertex (satisfying Plateau's rules), but of course as a structural support system each beam was required to be straight so as to better resist axial compression. The complex Weaire–Phelan pattern was developed by slicing through bubbles in soap foam, resulting in more irregular, organic patterns than foam bubble structures proposed earlier by the scientist Kelvin. Using the Weaire–Phelan geometry, the Water Cube's exterior cladding is made of 4,000 ETFE bubbles, some as large as 9.14 metres (30.0 ft) across, with seven different sizes for the roof and 15 for the walls.
The structure had a capacity of 17,000 during the games that is being reduced to 7,000. It also has a total land surface of 65,000 square meters and will cover a total of 32,000 square metres (7.9 acres). Although called the Water Cube, the aquatic center is really a rectangular box (cuboid) 178 metres (584 ft) square and 31 metres (102 ft) high. The building's popularity has spawned many copycat structures throughout China. For example, there is one-to-one copy of the facade near the ferry terminal in Macau – the Casino Oceanus by Paul Steelman.
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The Beijing National Aquatics Center, better known as the Water Cube, is an aquatics center that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Despite its nickname, the building is a cuboid (rectangular box), not a cube. Ground was broken on December 24th, 2003, and the Center was completed and handed over for use on January 28th, 2008. Swimmers at the Water Cube broke 25 world records during the 2008 Olympics.
The Water Cube was built with donations from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan compatriot as well as overseas Chinese. It was chosen through public appraisals as one of “China’s ten big new architecture views” by The U.S. magazine Business Weekly. The iridescent bubble wrapped rectangular box shaped structure won the 2011 National Science & Technology Progress Award, First Class, for its deliberate morphing of molecular science, architecture and phenomenology that can create an airy and misty atmosphere for a personal experience of water leisure.
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When China lobbied to host the Summer Olympics Games in 2008, it spent US $42 billion in hopes to put the country on world stage, giving birth to some of today’s modern architectural marvels:
1. The National Aquatic Center (a.k.a Water Cube)
Located in what is now referred to as the Olympic Green, the National Aquatic Center was constructed as the main in-door swimming pool for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The unique structure design got its inspiration from soap bubbles that come together to form a 12 or 14-sided cell structure.
Stretching for 177 meters square and 30 meters high, it holds a capacity of 17,000 seats which served as the main venue for several water sport events: swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo.
Today, the Water Cube is used to hold multi-functional center for sports, recreation and fitness. It has also drawn local and foreign tourists alike to watch the light shows at night when its outer structure changes color in all seven different hues.
It will also serve as one of the venue for the 22nd APEC Summit in Beijing.
2. National Stadium (a.k.a Bird’s Nest)
It boasts as China’s new icon at the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. With its striking design which says to utilize advance geometry, it draws its inspiration after the Chinese-style “crazed pottery”.
Covering a gross floor area of 254,600 square meter, with seating capacity for 91,000 including 11,000 temporary seats, it offers the audience a clear sight lines which brings them closer to action.
3. Olympic Forest Park Observation Tower
This is Beijing’s latest addition in China’s Olympic Forest Park which was recently completed in March 2014.
Reaching 243 meters tall, the tower overlooks several tourist spots: Beijing’s Forbidden City, Tienenmen Square, Mao Tse-Tung’s mausoleum, the Qianmen Gate, Drum Tower and Bell Tower. It was also installed with a full 360-dgree range of vision that makes viewing events from long distance possible.
Since its completion, it has become Beijing’s largest structure to date.
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The Olympic Green is an Olympic Park in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Since then, the streets around the park have been used for an exhibition street race of the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2011, after a race at Goldenport Park Circuit in the vicinity. It will again serve as an Olympic Park when Beijing hosts the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Beijing National Stadium
The Beijing National Stadium (国家体育场) or Bird's Nest (鸟巢) is the centerpiece of this project. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, and football finals of the Games. The stadium has room for 91,000 spectators, but the capacity was reduced to 80,000 after the Olympics. It will be the site of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Beijing National Aquatics Center
The Beijing National Aquatics Center (国家游泳中心) or Water Cube (水立方) hosted the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events. It has a capacity of 6,000 (17,000 during the 2008 Olympics)[citation needed] and is located next to the National Stadium. It will be the site of the curling competitions during the 2022 Winter Olympics.Wikipedia
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In Beijing a building like no other has emerged. It is a bold experiment in architecture and a cutting-edge vision of construction engineering. When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics the eyes of the world will be riveted on this building. Its official name is the National Swimming Centre but in the world of mega-architecture it is reverently known as the Water Cube. It's a brilliant fantasia of steel and plastic -- a honeycomb of fifty six miles (ninety kilometres) of steel framework, supporting pillows of high tech plastic inflated onto shimmering translucent bubbles.
We go behind the scenes to learn more about the vision behind a building destined to become one this century's leading architectural feats.
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