Size:
177x177x31m
The wall cavity is 3.6m deep and the cavity forming the roof is 7.2m deep.
The Water Cube will be the largest Olympic Aquatics Centre ever built and could fit into Sydney’s Circular Quay.
Project cost:
US$ 100 million
Gross floor area:
70,000m ²
Seating:
17,000 seats
Structure:
- The structure is made of approximately 6500 tonnes of steel.
- There are 22,000 steel members and 12,000 nodes.
- The steel beams would stretch for 90kms
- The structure of the building is so strong that it can be stood up
on its end and retains its shape.
Bubbles:
- There are 4,000 bubbles.
- The maximum bubble diameter is 7.5m.
- 6 bubbles for a repeatable geometry
- If all the individual bubbles were lined up in a row the line
would travel for more than 90km.
ETFE:
- EFTE weighs just 1% of glass and is a tough recyclable material.
- The skin of the Centre, which covers both the inside and the
outside of the
structure, is 100,000² metres of ETFE bubble
cladding. This is more than the
Eden Project in Cornwall,
currently the largest use of EFTE worldwide.
Solar energy:
The building is designed to be a greenhouse, 20% of the solar
energy is captured – the equivalent of covering the roof with photovoltaic cells.
Client:
People's Goverment of Beijing Municipality, Beijing SAM
Project Manager:
Three Gorges Corporation
Consortium Leader:
China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC)
Architects:
PTW + CCDI + ARUP
PTW design team:
Kohn Bilmon
Mark Butler
Chris Bosse
CSEC+design team leaders:
Zhao Xiaojun
Wang Min
Shang Hong
ARUP:
Tristram Carfrae
Peter Macdonald
Kenneth Ma
Haico Schepers
Mark Arkinstall
Steve Pennell
Stuart Bull
Engineer:
Arup & China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC)
