Xiuwen Stadium, Xiuwen County, China
This historical project record documents a compact public sports venue whose open oval form is wrapped in a restrained palette of creamy-white terracotta rainscreen panels, red engobe accents and a grey profiled-metal roof.
A public stadium organized around practical use
The original 2020 article describes Xiuwen Stadium as the first public stadium in Xiuwen County at that time. Its recorded facilities include a running track and areas for high jump and shot put, together with an infirmary, table-tennis room and billiards room. The grandstand includes general seating, VIP seating and a rostrum, as well as rooms for lighting control and reporting.
Rather than treating the building as a closed monumental object, the design opens the spectator areas toward the field and connects the grandstand, circulation platform and facade as one composition. The resulting profile is broad and low, with the oval roof giving the venue a clear civic identity without relying on excessive formal complexity.
An open oval form beneath a lightweight roof
The stadium’s three-storey steel-frame structure supports a wide, curved roof that shelters the grandstand while leaving substantial parts of the venue visually open. Grey profiled metal at roof level contrasts with the warmer ceramic surfaces below. Large glazed openings, exposed structural zones and the repeated panel grid keep the exterior legible at the scale of both the building and the pedestrian approach.
The creamy-white facade panels create a consistent base tone around the curved elevation. Their horizontal joints and repeated rectangular modules follow the stadium geometry, while darker openings and metal louvres break the mass into smaller bays.
Creamy-white panels with red engobe accents
The source article records milky or creamy-white ceramic panels across portions of the interior and exterior walls. Red engobe terracotta is concentrated in selected vertical strips rather than spread uniformly over the building. This controlled use of colour gives the entrances and glazed bays stronger rhythm while keeping the overall palette connected to the grey-and-white roof and structure.
At close range, the facade can be read as a coordinated set of rectangular ceramic modules, joints, window interfaces and canopy details. For current design work, panel size, colour approval, corner treatment, joint layout, subframe and interfaces should be reviewed together instead of treating the panel as an isolated finish.
Reading the project as a rainscreen reference
The earlier article made broad claims about insulation, fire, frost, impact and service life without publishing the project-specific assembly, test reports or measured results needed to support those claims. This updated case study therefore treats Xiuwen Stadium as a visual and material reference, not as evidence of a guaranteed performance level.
- panel module, colour range, surface and approved samples;
- support system, cavity, drainage and ventilation strategy;
- interfaces at glazing, corners, openings, canopies and roof edges; and
- project-specific wind loads, fire requirements, testing and local compliance.
See the current Terracotta Rainscreen overview for available design paths, or browse the Architectural Terracotta Gallery for more completed facade references.
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