Structural Expression in Architectural Creation of Sports Facilities

Abstract

The architectural creation of the sports facility normally depends on spatial structural design which gives the fairly rational structural form. Some times, the structural form directly means the external image and the inner space of a sports facility [1]. Structural morphological design method is proved to be very useful to the architectural creation practice with the innovation of spatial structure. It relies on the concord and unification of architecture and structure, and joins the ideal and the reality together [2]. In this paper, the creating method to form the sports facilities with circular plan is summed up in three steps: generating the structural surface, forming the structural system and adjusting the structural model. And then, three architectural projects of sports facilities creating by the author with structural expression during the international design competition recently are presented.