The Winter Olympics will be conveyed by "Asuka" - visit the main "arena" of the Winter Olympic media

In addition to athletes competing for gold and silver on the field, each Olympic Games is also a "field" for the world media to report. The main media center of the second phase of the China National Convention Center, as the "main venue" for media reporters, was completed in June 2021 and is currently delivered to OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Service Company).

The Lychee News reporter learned from the Beijing Major Project Office Urban Venue Construction Office that the total construction area of the main project of the second phase of the National Convention Center is 419,000 square meters, which is the latest and largest new project in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games Beijing Division. The Main Media Center of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, as the temporary venue of the Winter Olympics, is located in the project and is the headquarters of the global registered print media and broadcasters, with a total area of about 211,000 square meters. During the Winter Olympics, it is expected to receive more than 3,000 text and photojournalists and about 12,000 broadcasters, and is the international news editorial department and television signal production and transmission center for reporting and broadcasting the grand events of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, while the main media center is also the IOC media operation, the Olympic broadcast service company, and the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee media operation of the game time headquarters.

The "Bird" shape echoes in harmony with nature

According to the relevant person in charge of the owner unit Beichen Industrial Group Co., Ltd., the main project of the second phase of the National Convention Center is mainly based on steel structure, and its outer curtain wall adopts a unique "flock of birds" modeling image. The east, south and north façades of the main building are composed of metal and glass curtain walls in the shape of a special curtain wall unit - "Bird Window". The 2376 curtain wall units are connected into a surface, just like a group of light birds, with the shape of the main body of the building" "Kunpeng spreading its wings", "such as the bird Sige, such as The Fly", highlighting the flexible rhythm of the harmonious echo between the building and nature. At the same time, in order to achieve the agility of the birds embellishment, the project team adopted the automotive mold casting process - hyperbolic enamel steel plate scheme for the curtain wall, and stamped the shape of the "flock of birds" on the curtain wall, which greatly improved the accuracy and efficiency of material molding. This process is the first application and attempt in the façade of a building. During the Winter Olympics, media from all over the world will see that sunlight sprinkles indoors through the "birds" scattered on the curtain wall, forming a soft and active light and shadow effect.

Green buildings breathe with the city

In order to implement the concept of green Olympic Games, the main part of the second phase of the National Convention Center project is built in accordance with the three-star standard for green buildings and the LEED platinum standard in the United States. In November 2020, the main part of the second phase of the National Convention Center obtained the "Three-star Green Building Design Logo" and is currently undergoing LEED Platinum certification. The three-storey roof garden of the conference center adopts an open roof design, and the glass lighting roof of about 3,000 square meters can achieve large-scale electric opening and closing, enhance natural ventilation and natural lighting effects, and activate the smoke exhaust function. Allowing the main building to "breathe" with the city skyline is not only a visual enjoyment, but also a natural beauty of the "urban oasis" when immersed. At the same time, the venue makes full use of renewable energy. A total of 600 square meters of solar thermal system collectors are designed and installed, which can meet the domestic hot water demand of 17.5 tons / day; the whole air conditioning system in the main body can adjust the fresh air ratio to 70% in the transition season, saving about 31% of electricity consumption per year, and the annual power saving can be used for an electric new energy vehicle to travel 54.5 million kilometers and circle the earth 1363 times.

Practice "simple and wonderful" running the competition

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will practice the concept of "frugality" in hosting the Olympic Games, "borrow" urban infrastructure to serve the Winter Olympics, and continue to serve the people's livelihood and development of the city after the Games, which has become another innovation in Beijing's Olympic Games. The second phase of the China National Convention Center is an important facility to strengthen the function of the capital's international exchange center. During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, it will temporarily serve as the main media center of the Winter Olympic Games, serving the media of the world during the games, and will return to the original exhibition function after the games.

Huang Hui said that the main media center is a model project for Beijing to fully "borrow" urban public service facilities and run the Olympic Games frugally. At first, the main media center intended to borrow the existing National Convention Center, but after our discussion, we believed that to borrow the National Convention Center, it was first necessary to demolish the existing exhibition facilities, which cost a sum of money, and it would cost another money to transform it into a main media center, and it would cost two more money to dismantle and restore the original exhibition function after the Beijing Winter Olympics. At this time, we just found that the second phase of the National Convention Center is about to start construction, And Beijing will combine these two projects, and will complete part of the second phase of the National Convention Center as the main media center by 2022, and continue to build the second phase of the National Convention Center after the Beijing Winter Olympics, so as to save at least 3 money.

After the game, the second phase of the National Convention Center will continue to be built as a convention and exhibition building. After completion, it will form a world-class convention and exhibition complex with a total scale of more than 1.3 million square meters with the first phase of the National Convention Center, which can not only meet the needs of high-end government affairs and state diplomacy activities, but also meet the needs of various large-scale international exchange activities and business exhibition activities.

Litchi News Beijing Work Department reporter / Liu Xin Xu Dikan