浙江工商大学文体中心

The Zhejiang Gongshang University Sports and Arts Centre occupies the north-western corner of the university's Xiasha campus at 18 Xuezheng Street in Qiantang District, Hangzhou. Xuefu Street runs along its north side, the university's athletics field lies to the east and south, and Wenhan Road and the neighbouring Zhejiang Institute of Economics and Trade bound it to the west, with a dedicated access point onto the city road network. The centre was the handball venue for the Asian Games and comprises a main competition hall and an annexe warm-up hall across 19,149 square metres of floor area, seating 4,439 spectators during the Games. Its designed seating capacity is 5,415, made up of 4,765 fixed and 650 movable seats, and it is classified as a Class B, medium-sized sports building. The form is based on a sunflower, with movement, wave and arc motifs organising the facade and suggesting a turn towards the sun. Inside it is a general ball-games hall: the field of play can be configured for basketball, volleyball, handball, tennis, table tennis and gymnastics, and can also host large indoor performances and assemblies. The brief deliberately anticipated public use alongside campus needs. After the Games it converts into a comprehensive indoor sports hall, used mainly for teaching but also for competitions and events. It was designed by the Zhejiang Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute on a 23,000 square metre site with three storeys and no basement; some 3,914 square metres of open ground-floor space account for the gap between its 15,236 square metre enclosed area and the 19,149 square metre total.