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The London Aquatics Centre was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for the 2012 Olympics. It features an undulating roof that sweeps up from the ground like a wave to enclose the pools. The roof design allows the centre to accommodate the Olympics while providing the optimal size for post-Games use. The centre is located in the Olympic Park near Stratford, with the roof extending over pedestrian bridges to connect to the surrounding area.

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Aquatics

The London Aquatics Centre was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for the 2012 Olympics. It features an undulating roof that sweeps up from the ground like a wave to enclose the pools. The roof design allows the centre to accommodate the Olympics while providing the optimal size for post-Games use. The centre is located in the Olympic Park near Stratford, with the roof extending over pedestrian bridges to connect to the surrounding area.

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Project

Zaha Hadid Architects

London Aquatics Centre


Location

London, United Kingdom


Date

2005 / 2011
Client

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Olympic Delivery Authority


Status

Under Construction
Size

20,000m
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Design Concept The architectural concept of the London Aquatic Centre is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up from the ground as a wave - enclosing the pools of the Centre with its unifying gesture of fluidity, whilst also describing the volume of the swimming and diving pools. The London Aquatic Centre is designed to have the flexibility to accommodate the size and capacity of the London 2012 Olympic Games whilst also providing the optimum size and capacity for use in Legacy mode after the 2012 Games. Site Context The London Aquatic Centre is situated within the Olympic Park Masterplan. The site is positioned on the south eastern edge of the Olympic Park with direct proximities to Stratford. The new pedestrian access from the east-west bridge called the Stratford City Bridge which links the Stratford City development with the Olympic Park will cross over the LAC. This will provide a very visible frontage for the LAC along the bridge. Several smaller pedestrian bridges will connect the site to the Olympic Park over the existing canal. The Aquatic Centre addresses within its design the main public realm spaces implicit within the Olympic Park and Stratford City planning. These are primarily the east-west connection of the Stratford City Bridge and continuation of the Olympic Park space alongside the canal.

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Design Zaha Hadid Architects Project Director Jim Heverin Project Architect Glenn Moorley Sara Klomps Project Team Alex Bilton Alex Marcoulides Barbara Bochnak Carlos Garijo Clay Shorthall Ertu Erbay George King Giorgia Cannici Hannes Schafelner Hee Seung Lee Kasia Townend Nannette Jackowski Nicolas Gdalewitch Seth Handley

Thomas Soo Tom Locke Torsten Broeder Tristan Job Yamac Korfali Yeena Yoon Project Team (Competition) Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu Agnes Koltay Feng Chen Gemma Douglas Kakakrai Suthadarat Karim Muallem Marco Vanucci Mariana Ibanez Sujit Nair

Sports Architects S+P Architects (London) Structural Engineer Ove Arup & Partners (London, Newcastle) Services Ove Arup & Partners (London) Fire Safety Arup Fire (London) Acoustics Arup Acoustics (London) Faade Engineers Robert-Jan Van Santen Associates (Lille)

Lighting Design Arup Lighting (London) Kitchen Design Winton Nightingale (London) Maintenance Access Reef (London) Temporary Construction Edwin Shirley Staging (London) Security Consultant Arup Security (London) AV + IT Consultants Mark Johnson Consultants (London)

Access Consultants Access = Design (London) CDM Co-ordinator Total CDM Solutions (Cardigan) BREEAM Consultant Ove Arup & Partners (London)

Zaha Hadid Architects London Aquatics Centre

Layout The Aquatic Centre is planned on an orthogonal axis perpendicular to the Stratford City Bridge. Along this axis are laid out the three pools. The training pool is located under the bridge whilst the competition and diving pools are within a large volumetric pool hall. The overall strategy is to frame the base of the pool hall as a podium by surrounding it and connecting it into the bridge. This podium element allows for the containment of a variety of differentiated and cellular programmatic elements into a single architectural volume which is seen to be completely assimilated with the bridge and the landscape. rom the bridge level the podium emerges from underneath the bridge to cascades around the pool hall to the lower level of the canal side level. The pool hall is expressed above the podium level by a large roof which is arching along the same axis as the pools. Its form is generated by the sightlines for the spectators during the Olympic mode. Double-curvature geometry has been used to create a structure of parabolic arches that create the unique characteristics of the roof. The roof undulates to differentiate an internal visual separation inside the pool hall between the competition pool volume and the diving pool volume. The roof projects beyond the base legacy pool hall envelope to extend the roof covering to the external areas of the cascades and the bridge entrance. The roof projection over the bridge entrance announces the London Aquatic Centres presence from the approach from either Stratford City or the Olympic Park. Structurally the roof is grounded at 3 primary

positions. Otherwise the opening between the roof and the podium is in-filled with a glass faade.

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