浙江师范大学（萧山校区）体育馆

The Zhejiang Normal University Gymnasium on the Xiaoshan campus stands at 1108 Gengwen Road in the Xiaoshan Higher Education Park, Ningwei, Hangzhou, occupying the south-western corner of the campus. It was the handball venue of the 19th Asian Games, about 8.4 km south-east of the Asian Games Village, and consists of a main competition hall plus a warm-up hall. The building has 16,393 sqm of gross floor area and 2,302 seats; the site covers about 33,668 sqm with roughly 17,000 sqm built, of which 12,500 sqm is above ground and 4,500 sqm below. Designed by the sports architecture studio of Zhejiang University's Architectural Design and Research Institute under Shen Xiaoming, the hall abstracts the Qiantang River and Jiangnan silk into 308 'water curtains' hanging from the roof to the planting below. They act as a natural brise-soleil that cuts glare and cools the interior, and at night become a projection surface. A beam-string roof keeps the hall visually clean while saving material, and the stands were made deliberately asymmetrical after sightline studies so that every seat sees a point one metre above the touchline. High-grade fresh-air systems and sound-absorbing materials around the roof perimeter support the indoor environment. After the Games the venue was converted into a multi-purpose gymnasium for teaching, campus sport and staff fitness, a clear case of an Asian Games venue returning to its university. The campus sits in the Xiaoshan Higher Education Park, linked to the Qiantang River south bank road network by Gengwen Road and Benjing Avenue. The design team chose the grey-white shell to sit quietly among the campus's pale buildings, with red kept for the volume inside the water curtains, and the screens also cut solar gain on the glazing. The hall was one of two handball venues placed on Hangzhou university campuses for the Games.