*타이난 스포츠센터 [ QLAB ] NTFSH Gymnasium

타이난 국제 하이스쿨 체육관 프로젝트는 타이난시의 문화, 교육의

중심지에 위치하며, 지역의 잠재적인 역사적 특징을

현대장소에 연결하는 매개공간으로 제안된다.

학생들의 활동적인 스포츠 활동을 보장하는 동시에 지역주민들의

커뮤니티 증진을 위한 스포츠 시설은 프로그램의 특징을 수용하기

위한 건축이 외부로 들어난 구조적 특징으로 구현된다.

한정적인 대지위에 56미터, 40미터의 무주공간을 갖는

두개의 국제농구코트는 위아래로 적층된 조닝으로 플래닝한다.

그리고 공간확보를 위해 곤충의 외골격과 같이 트러스 스트럭쳐 시스템으로

지붕에 외벽면에 구현된다.

그렇게 두개의 국제농구코트, 세미아웃도어 농구코트, 휘트니스 센터,

탁구장, 그리고 1800석의 스포츠홀과 VIP라운지는

체육관에 프로그래밍 된다.

reviewed by SJ

Introduction
The National Tainan First Senior High School (NTFSH) Gymnasium project is located at the heart of the Tainan City where it is also situated at the center of Tainan Cultural and Educational District. Its adjacent institutions include the well-known National Cheng-Kung University, the University of Tainan as well as many historical landmarks.  The site provides potential opportunities to bridge the history with the present in a contemporary built form that speaks about confluence of architecture and structure in one cohesive gesture.

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Architects: QLAB
Location: Tainan, Taiwan
Architect In Charge: QLAB
Area: 874,329 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of QLAB

Design Concept
The program calls for a gymnasium that would house two international-standard basketball courts, a semi-outdoor basketball court, a fitness center, a table tennis room and a Chinese martial-arts classroom. The building also boasts a total number of eighteen-hundred seats for the Sports Hall along with a state-of-the-art control room and a VIP lounge.  With a wide variety of spaces required for this new facility, long-span structure is essential and crucial to provide high-quality sports space for its students and the community. The concept for the building begins with the semi-outdoor basketball court on the first floor which requires a column-free space that spans sixteen meters in width and forty meters in length.

The immediate program above it also requires to house several classrooms and most importantly, two international-standard basketball courts, that require a forty meters by fifty-six meters column-free space.  With several long-span spaces intended, a creative structural system was key to design this particular gymnasium project.  The solution was to design the building that acts like a bridge on all four sides of elevation and together lift and support the load of each floor slabs without having to place columns in the middle of it.  A truss-like bracing member was then designed and deployed to connect the form into one cohesive mass that speaks of confluence of Architecture and Structure. The end result expresses the contemporary take on sports building that blends form with intended function in one simple box.

from  archdaily