ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center 

UDG YangZheng Studio

ARCHITECTS
Udg Yangzheng Studio

PHOTOGRAPHS
Shengliang Su

AREA
31387 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Suzhou, China

CATEORY
Sports Architecture, Cultural Center

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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Text description provided by architect.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center is located in Zhoushi Town which is in the north new estate of Kunshan.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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It is a comprehensive and integrated culture & sports center which contains culture pavilion, basketball gymnasium, natatorium, multi-function hall, culture & arts exhibition center and leisure commercial street. We come up with the idea of huge structure, and the large dynamic roof covers the pavilions of various functions.

We use the ways of folding, waving and pruning to meet the different height demand of the basketball gymnasium, natatorium, culture pavilion and hall, etc.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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Meanwhile, it seems that people are looking at a sculpture and can find a strong vision impact from it.

Each pavilion is relatively independent and is convenient for operation.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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We take different theme or scale of space between each pavilion into consideration, which provides the citizens with the continual-time social space when the building is not open such as in the early morning, at nightfall and at night.

Actually, these facts highlight the openness and participatory of the culture & sports center. The architectural color of River South is black, white, grey and wooden colour.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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It is echoed by the architectural surface of the modern material like grey al-mg–mn roof, undressed stone curtain wall, Semi transparent silk screen printing glass curtain wall and wooden color aluminium-alloy ceiling.

All of them naturally express the respect of traditional architecture and context.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center remolds the urban space and inspires the new urban vitality.

It is a boat to carry and spread the culture of Zhoushi; it inherits the tradition; it has a distinctive characteristic of the times as well.

ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
© Shengliang Su
ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
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ZHOUSHI Culture & Sports Center
© Shengliang Su


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