Construction of Olympic village in Beijing - Olympic games 2008

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July 19, 2008

Beijing began construction of the Olympic village that will live in the 16,000 athletes participating in the Olympic Games, 2008 Olympic housing by highlighting the use of renewables and other environmental measures. Every athlete will have an average area of 22 square meters of housing.

The ceremony of laying the first stone was chaired by the deputy mayor of Beijing and executive vice president of the Organizing Committee (BOCOG), Zhang Mao, along with other municipal authorities, sports and communist party leaders took to sand with a shovel symbolically initiate such works.

The villa is located on the outskirts of the northern city of Beijing, a few kilometers from the Olympic Stadium. The housing complex will have a total area of 66 hectares, and is projected by the authorities in charge, its construction will culminate at the end of the year 2007, but its opening will be postponed until the following year, a rare two weeks of the Olympic event, which will start on August 8, 2008.

The BOCOG says that the site “will be a model of sustainable development” and following the principle of holding a “Green Games’,” promised by Beijing when he presented his candidacy, much of the lighting is supplied with solar water heating achieved through use of irradiation technology thermal waters and proceeds from the rains, will also also be collected and reused water from the rains, among other examples of Olympic village “green”.

Its 42 buildings of six and nine floors will host the representatives of the international Olympic committees, and will have a clinic, restaurants, library, recreation center and sports facilities for the enjoyment of the athletes participating in the event.

“People feel the glow of culture china and simultaneously experience the latest international styles of residence,” says a brochure that promotes the compound. After the Olympic Games, the housing complex will be refurbished to be converted into a housing estate apartments that will be available to anyone who is interested. The campaign sales in China and abroad will start to the year 2006.

The traditional china influence will be felt not in the external aspect of the villas, but in geomancy (the Chinese art of building or decorate according to philosophical and religious beliefs, also known as “feng-shui ‘). Therefore, doors and windows of the main Olympic village look to the south, as in traditional Chinese houses (the north is considered an evil cardinal point) and urbanization is located in an imaginary south-north axis passing through the Olympic stadium The Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Temple of Heaven.

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