Source: Beijing Daily
Original title: It can hold both professional events and weddings. “Xue Ruyi” is used following the competition to strive for sustainable accessibility
As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics came to an end, the national ski jumping center “Xue Ruyi” successfully completed the mission of the Winter Olympics. Zhang Li, chief planner of the Zhangjiakou Division of the Beijing Winter Olympics and dean of the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, revealed that in addition to providing venues for professional events and athletes’ training, “Xue Ruyi” will create more possibilities in the post-Winter Olympics era.
“Ski jumping is a classic extreme sport, and it is unlikely that citizens will experience this sport.” Zhang Li said that serving professional events and athletes is still the primary direction for “Xue Ruyi” following the competition. After the Winter Olympics, the National Ski Jumping Center can continue to host world-level ski jumping competitions, and the national team and teams from other provinces and cities can also train here.
For ordinary citizens, what are the new ways to open “Xue Ruyi”? In fact, in the early stage of planning, Zhang Li adhered to the concept of sustainable development and took the multi-functional use following the game into consideration in the design of “Xue Ruyi”. The bottom of “Xue Ruyi” is designed as a football field, with an audience capacity of up to 10,000 people. Large-scale events such as outdoor sports, concerts, and product launches can be held here.
“There is a good view here.” Zhang Li pointed to the “handle head” of “Xue Ruyi” and said, we designed a multi-functional space at the top, which is equivalent to a club. “The choice of location is very particular.” The team used human factors technology and other technological means to simulate and test the residence time of people in different places through the virtual reality environment, and finally chose the plan with the longest residence time. The plan divides two spaces at the top of “Xue Ruyi”. One space is at the front end, which can be used as a viewing platform, allowing visitors to gain a unique experience of “seeing the mountains and small”; the other space is at the back end, with a space for 500 people. People’s lecture hall – academic conferences, art exhibitions, weddings, etc. can be “arranged”.
Not only that, the team also designed an application plan for “Xue Ruyi” for disabled groups, striving to achieve barrier-free on a sustainable basis. In the design of the barrier-free drop-off area, in order to facilitate the use and passage of vehicles and wheelchairs, the team extended the original 7-meter aisle to 8 meters. The importance of the height difference of the road should not be greater than one centimeter; considering the heavy equipment such as sleds and snowboards carried by the skiers, the slope of the “Xue Ruyi” slope was adjusted to 1:14. (He Rui)
