Jinshan Lake Swimming and Diving Gymnasium

Jinshan Lake Swimming and Diving Gymnasium

The Jinshan Lake Swimming and Diving Gymnasium project is one of the venues for our city’s Provincial Games. The project occupies a land area of 32,000 square meters, including approximately 12,000 square meters of existing land from Huizhou University and about 20,000 square meters of newly acquired land. The building has a construction area of 24,500 square meters, a height of 28.83 meters, and can accommodate 2,000 spectators. The total investment for the project is approximately 290 million yuan. The construction of this gymnasium is primarily to meet the needs of hosting the 13th Provincial Games and major international and domestic single-sport events such as swimming, diving, water polo, and synchronized swimming. During non-event periods, the venue is managed by Huizhou University for sports teaching and training, reducing the government’s usual investment in venue management. It also provides a space for public sports activities, fully leveraging the gymnasium’s social benefits. The design concept of the gymnasium is inspired by the imagery of mountains and water, and its shape resembles a breaststroke swimmer striking through the water, rising and falling.

Construction officially began on November 10, 2006, was completed on September 29, 2009, and passed the test of the “Guangdong Province W-E Cup Youth Swimming Championships” on January 8, 2010. Third-party testing confirmed that water quality and temperature, air quality, pool dimensions, and other factors all met national standards. During the test event, systems such as air conditioning, lighting, display screens, water treatment, venue sound reinforcement, and network communications operated smoothly without any malfunctions or issues. The water supply and power supply systems were also well ensured.

The project utilized many new technologies, materials, and construction techniques. The spectator stands, diving platform pillars, outdoor grand stairs, exterior wall surfaces, and side walls along spectator walkways—all visible areas—are mostly constructed with fair-faced concrete, without any decorative finishes, and only coated with colorless, penetrating, waterproof acrylic resin or fluorocarbon paint protective coatings. Fair-faced concrete represents the highest form of expression in concrete materials, showcasing an essential aesthetic and embodying the taste of “natural beauty.” It has a simple, unadorned, natural, and serene outward charm, with an innate sense of weightiness and elegance that some modern building materials cannot imitate or rival. The material itself conveys a range of tactile and emotional impressions—softness, hardness, warmth, and coolness—that not only affect human senses and spirit but also express architectural emotion. The main structural part uses a reinforced concrete frame structure, while the roof employs a steel structure consisting of 12 arched steel trusses with undulating waveforms and secondary trusses located between the two main arch trusses, following the same wave-like undulations. The roof is covered with an aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy standing-seam metal roofing system. Water treatment and heating make extensive use of energy-saving and environmentally friendly construction technologies, such as vacuum hot water boilers and heat pumps, which are currently ideal energy-saving hot water equipment. Tap water must pass through several stages—including filtration tanks, adsorption tanks, and reaction tanks—before entering the pool. The water is recycled every four hours to ensure safety and reliability. The water treatment process achieves zero emissions, zero pollution, safety, low noise, easy installation and operation, and can be left unattended or controlled remotely.