'Bird's Nest' – National Stadium

(Yuanda Enterprise Group)
Updated: 2008-07-31 23:39

The National Stadium is commonly called the "Bird's Nest" has been praised as the "the stadium of the fourth generation", it is located inside Beijing Olympic Park, east side of northern part of middle axis of Beijing, and is the main stadium for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

During the 2008 Olympic Games period, the "Bird's Nest" will host many competition activities, such as the opening and closing ceremony, track and field competion, men's football finals etc. It can hold 100,000 spectators, with 20000 temporary seats. After the Olympic Games, the stadium can accommodate 80,000 spectators, and host large-scale sports competitions, all kinds of routine competitions as well as non-competition events, and will also become a physical exercise and large-scale recreational and professional location for citizens in Beijing. It will also be the symbolic recreational architectural site for physical culture all over the country.

 

The National Stadium is jointly designed by a cooperative consortium, Herzog & De Meuron Architekten (Switzerland), Ove Arup Partnership (Australia) and China Architecture Design & Research Group. The proprietor is the National Stadium Co., which is jointly established by Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. and Citic Group.

The stadium has a built-up area of 258,000 sq m and a covered area of 204,000 sq m, for main body of the building, its major axis is 332.3m, minor axis 297.3m, vertex 68.5m and nadir height 40.1m. The length of its roof opening is 185.3m and the width is 127.5m. The major structure of the stadium adopts a bending and twisty box shaped steel beam, which surrounds the red ochre colored and bowl like seating area in spoke-wise form, and also rotate, interlace in slope direction. The superface appears as a saddle shape, the places between the steel beams are covered by the transparent membrane material. The elevation, superface, suspended ceiling and interior grey steel beam regularly form the oroclinal warping lattice which seems a little untidy, the interior solid interlaced steel frame is dimly visible through the membrane material on the superface. Seen from the distance, the stadium is just like a jumbo Bird's Nest woven by the twigs.

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