Connective sports, leisure, retail, and culture zones transform a disparate stadium landscape into an integrative indoor-outdoor experience.
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Stadium High Line
Weaving together the different sports venues of Shenzhen’s 26th World University Games in Dayun, an elongated retail mall serves as base for a multi-level leisure park: an urban living room that revitalises the area with everyday uses, attracting local residents, business people, students, and families alike.
Stretching across a length of almost one kilometre, the mall winds around two stadia and several indoor sports venues, to interconnect them on two above and one below ground layers. A continuous roofline with a feature running track covers three distinct areas: a sports and fashion zone at the main corner towards the large stadium, a children’s and entertainment zone towards the green core of the sports site, and a leisure and culture zone around a large water feature and amphitheatre to conclude the experience and lift it into the outdoors. The mall circulation transitions from indoors to outdoors, with external corridors lined by greenery.
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Stadium Spirals
Sunken plazas and spiralling ramp vortices create a meandering multi-layered experience that invigorated the long journey through the site. The retail roof converts into a 24 hour accessible, fully landscaped linear park: playgrounds intersperse with meadows, seating areas, and sports fields, while different kinds of paths encourage leisurely walk or fast track run, all with a vista across the faceted roofscapes of the stadia.
The “Dayun Eye” sits at the half point of the mall in the centre of the site: the spiralling walkable vortex is conceived as a vantage point that sets the tone for the site’s invigorated identity.
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