National Aquatic Centre Floor Plan

Beijing national aquatics center architect.

National aquatic centre floor plan. The feeling that one has to look at this building as if it had placed a bucket full of water on the floor and this has been withdrawn as if it were a mold of leaving the volume of water floating in the air for a few moments. Beijing national aquatic center the watercube quinn batten kelly bonnell katie fennell matt henson and hector ochoa. The aquatics center hosted the swimming diving and synchronized swimming events during the olympics. The aquatics centre is designed with an inherent flexibility to accommodate 17 500 spectators for the london 2012 games in olympic mode while also providing the optimum spectator capacity of.

The national aquatics centre will be the venue for swimming diving synchronized swimming and water polo final during the olympic games. Held water activities for the summer olympics gross floor area. Olympic green beijing china purpose. The national aquatic centre comprises of a training pool competition pool and a diving pool.

After significant modification the centre opened. Ptw architects china construction design institute. Water polo was originally planned to be hosted in the venue but was moved to the ying tung natatorium. A 10 lane 50 metre x 25 metre international standard swimming pool with two moveable floors which will allow it to be reconfigured for other uses a 25 metre international standard diving pool warm up pool seating for 2 500 spectators.

Over the course of the games 25 world records were broken by athletes at the water cube although all but. Besides being a centre of excellence for swimming the national aquatic centre has also played host to interesting events such as the international water stilt. The london aquatics centre is an indoor facility with two 50 metre 164 foot swimming pools and a 25 metre 82 foot diving pool in queen elizabeth olympic park in stratford london the centre one of the main venues of the 2012 summer olympics and the 2012 summer paralympics was used for the swimming diving and synchronised swimming events. The project is located in beijing china.

Located on the west side of landscape avenue in the olympic green and to the west of national stadium bird s nest in beijing the national aquatics center contains the official 2008 olympics swimming facility. The construction started on december 24th 2003 and was finished on january 1st 2008. The appearance of the aquatic centre is therefore a cube of water molecules the watercube. Cscec ptw ove arup partners.

It measures 194 yards 177 meters long 194 yards wide and 98 feet 30 meters high and covers. The national aquatic centre is one of the irelands largest indoor water centres. The total seating capacity is 17 000 including 6 000.