Shougang Ski Big Air Center

The Shougang Industrial Park redevelopment is the most ambitious industrial heritage transformation project in northern China, aiming to bring this century-old steel mill back to civic life, reconnect the city with the Yongding River, and restore the natural environment across a 10-square-kilometer urban area. The entire project began around 2010 and is planned for completion by 2030, encompassing a series of adaptive reuse and energy conversion projects driven by sports, leisure, culture, and other public programs. As one of the venue clusters for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Shougang Park and Jingneng Park area contains one competition venue and five non-competition venues. The Shougang Ski Jump is the only competition venue, hosting the men's and women's snowboarding and freestyle skiing big air events, with four gold medals awarded. The Shougang Ski Jump is the first Winter Olympics venue in the world located within an industrial heritage site, and the first permanent competition facility for ski jumping big air. The planning and design of the Shougang Ski Jump integrates the Winter Olympics venue with the transformation of a key part of the former large steel plant. The project by THAD creates a ski jump that uses the industrial structures of the former steel mill as its backdrop, demonstrating how Olympic venues can be embedded in industrial heritage rather than built on greenfield sites.