Spring Festival No. 4 Content,
We take advantage of the opening of the Winter Olympics today,
Let's take a look at the Beijing Winter Olympics and
The design of the outstanding building venues of the previous Winter Olympic Games.
On February 4th, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics officially kicked off under the countdown of the 24 solar terms, showing the romance that belongs to China alone, and also symbolizing a new spring that the world has welcomed together.
After the national anthem was played, a drop of ice-blue ink immediately dripped down, only to see it transform into a wave of water of the Yellow River, and in an instant, the entire venue began to run.
A piece of ice cube slowly fell, and the symbol of the ice-clear Olympic rings began to be revealed little by little, implying breaking the barrier, merging into one, and walking into each other.
On this day of national celebration, in addition to the popular Wang Bingdundun and Xue Rongrong, who are inspired by the design of national treasures giant pandas and big red lanterns, as the mascots of this Winter Olympic Games, the nicknames of the ice and snow families in the Winter Olympic venues also contain the charm of Chinese culture.
The design concept of the Winter Olympic Ski Jumping Center inherits the traditional Chinese thought and culture, and the elegant Chinese style of "color is the rhythm, silhouette singing the last sentence" is reflected with the names of traditional objects such as "Snow Ruyi" and "Ice Jade Ring". From a distance, the ski center is connected by the boardwalk and the other two venues to form a scene of "ice jade ring snow ruyi", like a plain brocade, and the beautiful ring is interlocked.
Architecture has always been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for fashion, it supports new spaces with magnificent structures, and the details also hide the beauty of many rafters waiting for us to discover.
The National Speed Skating Hall is the only new permanent venue built at the Olympic Games, because twenty-two rotating light bands surround the façade of the stadium, hence the name "Ice Ribbon", which is combined with LED lights that are lit up at night, making it look as if it is constantly circling and rising from a distance.
This speed skating hall looks both modern and full of technology, but the design concept behind it is simple and warm. Chang Yafei, president of Populous China, an internationally renowned architectural design company, said that the shape of the gymnasium was inspired by the childhood game "Ice Gyro" of children in the north.
Concept art of the "Ice Ribbon" at the National Speed Skating Hall
The ice ribbon was officially completed on December 25, 2021, which took three years to complete, and the venue has a building area of about 80,000 square meters and can accommodate about 12,000 spectators.
As the main creator of the project, he projected the winter ride he had once performed on the shichahai ice into the original concept of the design. The "ribbons" are derived from the flying sky of the Dunhuang murals, because they are not born with wings, but with colorful streamers, they soar in the air. The design of the "Ice Ribbon" not only has a strong Chinese memory, but also contains the history and culture of our long roots.
While full of artistic beauty, the national speed skating hall building also shimmers with the glittering color given by science and technology. Twenty-two ribbons are spliced together from 3360 pieces of curved glass, and the ice-like transparent outer glass curtain wall has a very complex curved skeleton, and it is this combination of outer softness and rigidity and softness that makes it a new coordinate on the axis of the Olympic Games with a dancing posture.
The black building that appeared at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is definitely the most eye-catching presence, and from a distance it is pitch black and only the surface is lit up with a glimmer of stars, but as the perspective and position change, the light seems to move and flicker.
Commissioned by Hyundai Motor Corporation, Hyundai Ishigado is known as the "darkest pavilion in the world".
That's because British architect Asif Khan painted the exterior of the building with a paint called Vantablack VBx2, which absorbs 99% of the light, thus giving the shaped 3D surface a two-dimensional visual appearance.
Inside the pavilion is a huge "water chamber" that emits 25,000 water droplets per minute.
After approaching, I opened the curtain of reality and found that it was all a blindfold, and the original exterior wall of this building was concave and arc-shaped, and the glow was a tube of the outer wall surface of the structure.
These lights don't flicker or move, everything is just visual.
Asif Khan describes himself as an astronaut in a closet, and with his mastery of visual deception and some high-tech materials, he creates a building that gives people a sense of smallness in the vastness, giving the illusion of tension and the illusion that everything is in the void.
The stadium that hosted the opening ceremony of that year's Winter Olympics got its name from Russia's famous Mount Fisht.
The stadium was the first large-scale stadium in Russia to feature a transparent all-glass exterior and a polycarbonate roof.
Design concept map
Originally designed, it had an Easter egg-shaped shell dome, and when it was first built that year, the stadium was completely enclosed. After the Winter Olympics, it was remodeled and reopened in 2016 at the Fisht Olympic Stadium as an open-air football stadium.
The Fisht Olympic Stadium is also one of the venues for the 2018 Fide World Cup in Russia.
It can be said to be an important milestone in the history of sustainable architecture in the history of the Winter Olympic Games, and now design concepts such as energy saving and passive are constantly mentioned, when people care about the shape and comprehensive performance of the venue, they are more concerned about whether the venue can be reused after the Winter Olympics, and the cost of re-investment in the demolition and restoration of the venue that cannot be reused.
After the renovation, the two huge roofs of the Fisht Olympic Stadium are like mountain peaks, which can shade the 40,000 spectators in the stadium, and now it is still surrounded by mountains and seas, hosting various sports events.
Inspired by Ontario Falls, a landmark attraction in Ontario, the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Ontario Pavilion makes a dreamy restoration of the scene of mist and water droplets flowing.
The Ontario Pavilion is seen formally and experientially as a major entrance to Ontario.
At that time, the technology of this external wall installation was very advanced. It uses medium-resolution digital LED cables to surround the building's outer body layer by layer, each with a corresponding card slot, which is arranged like the warp threads on a loom, with a total length of more than 40 kilometers.
The exterior exhibits a translucent screen, and the design subtly changes the definition of transparency.
Because they are LEDs, they can change the color of the light, they can project images, they can digitally interact with the modules in the building, and people can also connect the headset to it and control these LED lights with their minds. The whole building, from concept to detail, is very much in line with the concept of the Olympic Green Olympics, the Science and Technology Olympics, and the Humanistic Olympics.
The speed skating hall of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics is also a winter Olympic venue that has refreshed the history of architecture, it was once the world's largest suspended wooden roof structure, and has won numerous architectural design awards.
M-Wave interior lighting model
The shape of the Nagano Speed Skating Hall M-Wave is inspired by the surrounding undulating mountains, and it is named M-Wave because of its M-shaped top shape. Inspired by local sources, the building's materials also came from Nagano, where the locally grown larchs were pressed into solid wood that set up the unique roof of this large-span building.
The 16th stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Torch was also held in Nagano, Japan.
The stadium, which cost 348 billion yen to build that year, after hosting the Winter Olympics, except for the occasional competition, it is the venue for exhibitions and local flea markets, and now it is also an Olympic Museum and Youth Activity Center, although it is too big and no longer the glory of the past, but the M-wave creeping on this flat land is like a small wave, always waiting for the next heavy snow.
Herb Brooks Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Lake Placid, New York, dedicated to the 1980 Winter Olympics, named after legendary American ice hockey player and coach Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. Ice hockey matches, figure skating and closing ceremonies were held at this venue.
Princid Lake March 1979
Lake Princid Olympic Village February 1980
The site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Ski Jumping Site
Lake Placid has hosted two Winter Olympics, the first being the third Winter Olympics in 1932, and that was the first time the Winter Olympics had held sports indoors.
The Winter Olympics were attended by 1,283 athletes from 37 countries and regions.
Even more memorable is the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, which was China's first participation in the Winter Olympics. The Chinese delegation sent 6 coaches and 28 athletes from Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province and the People's Liberation Army to participate in 18 events in 5 major events including speed skating, figure skating, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing and modern biathlon.
At last
Look back at the former Winter Olympic venues
We can feel it
Buildings are also getting taller and stronger
Evolving architectural design
Witnessed a record that is constantly being broken
If those walls can tell
Those stories related to design
How wonderful