Hangzhou Sports Complex
Type
Professional
Work
Status
Under Construction
Description
This a state-of-the-art sports complex features a 60,000-seat football stadium, a 19,000-seat indoor arena, and an aquatics center with two 50-meter pools. Its computationally optimized design offers panoramic city views, integrates public spaces, and incorporates energy and water management systems. Serving as sports hub and community space, it blends leisure, sustainability, and innovation.
Within ZHA CODE, I led the rationalization and redesign of the Aquatics Center roof and Stadium facade for Design Development and construction, optimizing the Schematic Design geometry for performance using Grasshopper scripts, custom C# components, and CODE-specific C++ methods.
Role
​Location
Hangzhou, China
Authors
Zaha Hadid Architects
Years
2022 - present
Sports Complex Overview
Integral to the district’s urban plan and the natural landscapes along the riverbank, the project incorporates new parks and gathering places for events, recreation, and relaxation.
Stadium - 132,000m2 (60,000 seats)
Indoor Arena - 74,000m2 (19,000 seats)
Aquatics Center - 15,000m2
Podium - 45,000m2
Process Sampling: Roof Optimization
Step 4: Solar Panel Orientation
After transforming the original geometry into a retopologized mesh, edge height and panel angle parameters are iteratively adjusted to optimize for cumulative solar exposure.
Step 6: Panel Planarity
Given the material and fabricator constraints, the roof panels are adjusted to be either planar or single-curved. This is achieved by running a planarity solver and adjusting mesh topology.
Step 10: K-means Clustering
Taking panel length, width, height, planarity, profile curvature, and cut-out curvature as inputs, the minimum fabrication-aware panel clusters are set with an iterative kmeans clustering method.
