Li-Ning Sports Park

Commissioned by Tongxiang Zhendong New District Construction Investment, the Tongxiang National Fitness Centre and Li-Ning Sports Park sit on Wuzhen Avenue, creating a cultural-sports-tourism axis that links Tongxiang's city centre to the water-town of Wuzhen. The project is positioned as a civic living room and a new landmark under Tongxiang's plan to build a culturally vibrant, green and prosperous city, and it reflects China's post-2008 shift from competitive stadia to mass sports. Urban-design strategy merges the fitness centre with the surrounding sports park into one continuous public ground, using the building as an anchor for open space. Programmatically, the 'Big Sports' concept combines competitive, mass and leisure sports: the main hall is a 5,000-square-metre multi-event space whose fixed and retractable seating can be reconfigured, seating 3,000 in performance mode and meeting Class-B gymnasium requirements during competitions, while daily use supports climbing, trampolining, rehabilitation, children's training and esports. Spatial planning uses a 'Sports Mall' concept in a one-core, multi-cluster radial layout: a shared, sunlit atrium optimises public flow and encourages visual and social exchange between activities, with a grand stair between floors serving as seating and small-performance space, a climbing wall facing the atrium, and perforated-metal facades on the trampoline gym modulating views into each activity. Outside, rather than a standard 400-metre track and full-size football pitch, the design substitutes more popular five-a-side football pitches; a 2.3-kilometre ground-level loop combines landscape with the fire road and links sports, water-play, wetland and plaza zones, while a 1.2-kilometre second-level loop connects the park to rooftop gardens, enlivening runners and easing evacuation. The project is offered as a working model for future Chinese mass-sports facilities that weave sport, culture, leisure and nature into one daily urban system.