FEA TURE — 2 0 1 4 ASIAN GA MES VENUES
TRULY ASIAN
2014 Asian Games Facilities
The main stadium in Incheon will be the hub of the 2014 Asian Games, but with a total of 49 venues being used for the event, the organisers have also invested heavily in a swathe of other facilities.
The total cost of the Games is estimated to be around US$1.4bn. Of those 49 venues to be used in 2014, thirty-three are located in Incheon City.
Ten existing facilities in Incheon will be revamped for the 2014 Games and a total of sixteen new venues will be built, while another sixteen venues will also be used in neighbouring cities, such as Bucheon, Goyang and Seongnam.
Work is well underway on many of the new venues, such as the 36.8bn South Korean Won (US$3.2m) Munhak Swimming Pool, which is scheduled for completion by May 2013. This 18,200sqm three-storey building will include 3,000 seats, a competition pool, auxiliary pool, diving pool and training facilities with three plazas outside. Daewoo Engineering is the main contractor on the job, working with Daeyang Construction, Kyunghwa Engineering and Bando Engineering.
Work began on this project in May 2011, when Incheon’s Mayor Song Young-gil said: “This ground- breaking ceremony is very meaningful because it represents a major step towards realising the common goal of Incheon’s citizens to successfully host the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. The city will do its best to prepare for the festival without interference, so that the 2014 Incheon Asian Games will be the most dramatic and successful ever.”
The Games organisers, Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee (IAGOC), started a swathe of other projects soon after construction on the swimming pool began.
On June 13, 2011, work started on the US$11.2m, 8,874-seat Namdong Stadium, which will hosts events in 2014 including gymnastics and rugby union. Two days later, construction began on the US$7.9m 4,334-seat Gyeyang Stadium, which will stage badminton and archery.
Then on June 23, 2011, work started on the US$7m, 7,000-seat Sipjeong Stadium, the venue for tennis and squash at the Asian Games. This was followed by work commencing on the Main Stadium on June 28. Construction on the Ganghwa Stadium, which will cater for the taekwondo and BMX events, began on July 25. Then on September 20, work started on the Seonhak Stadium, which will host events including field hockey.
Other new venues being built for the 2014 Asian Games include the US$4.4m volleyball venue at Songnim-dong, where a 22,735sqm building will include seating for 5,000 spectators.
Outside of the venues, the largest investment for the Games has been the new 21km long Incheon Bridge, which will cost around US$1.4bn. Built by Samsung C&T Corporation, with advice from a trio of consultants — Halcrow, Dasan and Arup — the bridge links Incheon International Airport with Songdo International City and Cheongna Area, and was seen by the Games organisers as vital to the smooth running of events in 2014.
[that encircles] the whole stadium. A further complexity was that an Asian Games requires extensive areas sur- rounding the stadium for the corralling of athletes, secu- rity zones, officials and media. Munhak stadium was very short on such space.”
Designing of the 2014 Asian Games
Main Stadium With the revamping of the Munhak stadium ruled out as unviable, Populous began work on designing a new 70,000-capacity venue, which would be sustainable in its post-Games configuration. Populous’ main Asian headquarters are in Brisbane,
Australia, where a team of ten designers were assigned to the project and worked closely with Korean design partners Heerim on the new design for the project. James added: “The first stadium design became over-
sized in terms of what would be needed to stage an Asian Games. A conservative design approach led by a project management team with little experience in stag- ing major sports events had meant that the philosophy became, ‘when in doubt, add it in’. The supporting areas normally housed in the basement grew to around four times as large as they needed to be. This was the first and most extensive reduction we made to the building foot- print when reviewing the teams’ progress. “Populous also encouraged the team to follow the
design principles established by the winning competi- tion design scheme and treat the temporary seats as truly temporary, i.e. hired seating, rather than the costly approach the team had chosen to adopt of basically building permanent seating and then demolishing it afterwards. There were also extensive savings able to be made in the cost of the roof design by simplifying the structure and reducing the extent where unnecessary.” Although the stadium was initially planned to have a
capacity of 70,000, this was reduced to 60,000 in Games mode, with the stadium to be downsized further to a 30,000-seat venue in its post-Games configuration. Instead of finding this reduction limiting, it was actually where Populous’ team found inspiration.
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Images right and below right: The top image shows the Stadium in its 60,000- capacity Games mode and the bottom picture illustrates the venue in its 30,000-capacity legacy mode.
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