Subtle Architectural Matter

Subtle Architectural Matter
Subtle Architectural Matter

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The water polo arena (architect David Morley, David Morley Architects), which appeared in the Olympic Park in March 2012, took only a year to build. The 5,000-seat arena is covered with a silvery "airbag" structure made of polyester with PVC (polyvinyl chloride, recyclable plastic cover).

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The Arena will soon be dismantled and the components sent back to manufacturers and other construction sites throughout the UK. Moreover, reuse will affect all elements: spectator seats, ventilation systems, load-bearing structures and even swimming pools. And what cannot be reused: PVC cushions and some parts of the steel frame, from the very beginning were designed for subsequent processing.

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This lean approach has helped cut British Olympic construction costs - most of the $ 47 million spent on the Water Floor Arena will go back to the treasury. And although the dismantling of structures has not yet begun, this event is inevitable - in 2013 the park will be renovated and built up: in addition to sports centers and the "Olympic village", new housing and amenities will appear in it.

Fabric roofs have been made over several other Olympic venues. In 2011, the Aquatics Center (Zaha Hadid) and the Olympic Stadium (Populous) were built.

The Aquatics Center, built in 2011 by Zaha Hadid, combines both permanent and temporary structures. The central part of the building, which houses the pool and part of the stands (2500 seats), is a capital structure, and the stands on the sides of it (another 15000 seats) are annexes, the roof and walls of which are completely covered with fabric. Now, after the Olympics, the side wings with the stands will be dismantled. The building envelope was constructed from environmentally friendly polyester with a special PVC coating without the use of phthalates (lead-based chemicals).

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The Olympic stadium, built by the Populuos bureau, was also created as a transformer - during the Olympics, it accommodated 80 thousand spectators, and now the upper levels will be dismantled, and the number of seats will be reduced to 25 thousand. Recycled concrete and metal were used in the construction. At first, they wanted to make the outer shell of the building from a single piece of PVC fabric, the same as on the dome, but then they replaced it with separate triangular strips. The architects of the Populous studio tried to reduce costs on everything and so formulated their task: “reduce, reuse, recycle” (reduce, reuse, recycle).

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