Las Vegas Ballpark

by | 16 Apr 2024 | Design, Sports Grounds, Stadiums

Las Vegas Ballpark

Vegas, Baby

 

 

BIG & HNTB

Las Vegas is the place where there are few limits to fantasy. That’s why the Las Vegas Ballpark fits right in.

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The famed Las Vegas Strip will soon be the home of the new Las Vegas Ball­park for the Oakland A’s by archi­tec­ture firms Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and HNTB. Once complete, the project will be the new home of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athle­tics, and echo the vibrancy of the ‘Enter­tain­ment Capi­tal of the World,’ exuding an outdoor feel with pano­r­amic views of the city’s skyline.

The 33,000-capacity covered ball­park will sit on nine acres on Las Vegas Boule­vard between Tropi­cana Avenue and Reno Avenue. The expected opening date is spring 2028.

 The new Las Vegas Ballpark’s roof is accen­tuated by five over­lap­ping shells resembling base­ball penn­ants, paying homage to the sport. For players, these arched “penn­ants” will atte­nuate direct sunlight glare while welco­ming indi­rect natural light through nort­hern oriented clerestory windows. The domed ball­park is also desi­gned to feature the world’s largest cable net glass wall. The structure’s exte­rior metal clad­ding shim­mers in the natural daylight and reflects the surroun­ding Las Vegas lights at night.

The design repres­ents a capti­vating ball­park concept, seam­lessly blen­ding inno­va­tion and tech­no­logy with an enhanced fan expe­ri­ence. It is conceived in response to the unique culture and climate of the city. Five pennant arches enclose the ball­park — shading from the Nevada sun while opening to the soft daylight from the north. A giant window frames a maje­stic view of the life of The Strip and the iconic New York New York hotel skyline. All direct sunlight is blocked, while all the soft daylight is allowed to wash the field in natural light.

The resul­tant archi­tec­ture is like a sphe­rical arma­dillo — shaped by the local climate — while opening and invi­ting the life of The Strip to enter and explore. In the city of spec­tacle, the A’s ‘arma­dillo’ is desi­gned for passive shad­ing and natural light — the archi­tec­tural response to the Nevada climate gene­ra­ting a new kind of verna­cular icon in Vegas.

An elevated outdoor plaza connects to the bridges over Las Vegas and Tropi­cana Boule­vards, direc­ting fans to the ballpark’s main concourse, where a large glass atrium pulls the city into the venue. This entrance sequence will imme­dia­tely orient fans in the ball­park, allo­wing views of the entire field and seating bowl upon entry while opti­mi­zing wayfin­ding and circu­la­tion.

Secon­dary north and south entrances are marked by “boun­cing” arches to increase visitor acces­si­bi­lity and promote a connec­tion to the outdoors. Once inside, fans are met with bright, open atria, which will also serve as multi­pur­pose exhi­bi­tion spaces to show­case inter­na­tional and local artists.

The ball­park will be a climate-controlled, state-of-the-art faci­lity that will house a variety of events and guest expe­ri­ences. By opening up the roof struc­ture, the archi­tects aim to capture the energy of the iconic Las Vegas Strip and create a unique synergy between its events and the surroun­ding city. The new Las Vegas Ball­park  will push the boun­da­ries for enjoying base­ball and contri­bute to a more inter­ac­tive and spec­ta­cular urban expe­ri­ence in Las Vegas.

 Las Vegas is where the imagi­na­tion runs free, charac­te­rized by bespoke, one-of-a-kind expe­ri­ences. The A’s new ball­park will be filled with unique settings for the social inter­play between, sport, spec­tacle and entertain­ment.

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Architects

BIG 
Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Sundlin, Leon Rost,  Aran Coakley, Frankie Sharpe, Jan Klaska, Ricardo Palma,  Ahmad Tabbakh, Alan Maedo, Bernardo Schuh­ma­cher, Catrina Nelson, Don Chen, Douglass Alli­good, Ema Baka­lova, Hongye Wu, Hudson Parris, Jeff Tao, Margaret Tyrpa, Matthew Lau, Paul Heberle, Pooya Aleda­vood, Sunghwan Um, Thomas McMur­trie, Yuza­buro Tanaka

HNTB 
Lanson Nichols, Brad Albers, Emily Louchart, Jeff Goode, Stephanie Schnei­de­reit, Bryan Rincon, Phil Perkins, Donovan Brook, Jack Swezy, Jimena Dorador, Robbie Powell

Client

Okland Athle­tics

Opening

2028

Address

Las Vegas Ball­park
USA — NV 89109

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Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo

by | 9 Feb 2021 | Design, Sports Grounds, Stadiums

Modern World

Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo in Sant­iago

 

 

 

IDOM
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Situation

The Univer­sidad Cató­lica Sports Club, founded in 1937, inau­gu­rated its current stadium in 1988, known as the San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium.

After more than three decades of acti­vity, the club decided that it needed a reno­va­tion. For this reason it held a compe­ti­tion in which nine offices were presented, and the IDOM proposal was selected.

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Importance

With this reno­va­tion, the manage­ment team of Cruzado intends to moder­nize the Stadium and its surroun­dings, making it a multi­pur­pose venue, which will be an archi­tec­tural land­mark for the town of Las Condes and the city of Sant­iago, provi­ding value and services to the Commu­nity, the perfect place to orga­nize high-level sporting events, while gene­ra­ting new income.

“The new stadium will be a quality archi­tec­tural icon for the commu­nity, visible from the envi­ron­ment and respectful of it, inspired by the tradi­tional mate­rials of Chilean archi­tec­ture while looking to the future of foot­ball in the country,” says César Azcá­rate.

Location

From an archi­tec­tural perspec­tive, the project is conceived in section due to its loca­tion at the foot of the Cordil­lera, on a slight slope and looking towards the city of Sant­iago.

For this, a main buil­ding is confi­gured, which is shown towards the city and which houses a large part of the hospi­ta­lity uses.

Volume

Starting from the current Stadium, anchored to the ground as if it were a Greek amphi­theater, the new needs, the new uses and the increase in capa­city, from 14,000 to 20,000 spec­ta­tors, gene­rates a volume that is perceived as unitary, light and elevated with respect to what exists.

In this sense, the use of wood as the main element in the façade and the roof struc­ture allows dialogue to be estab­lished between the tectonic and the light, while also being a sustainable resource, in line with the whole approach to the moder­niza­tion of the Stadium.

From being open to being closed

A conti­nuous boule­vard is desi­gned that allows access to all the upper part of the lower stands and that repres­ents the line that sepa­rates what is linked to the ground from what is elevated. The new volu­metric confi­gu­ra­tion will allow the stadium to go from being open to being closed cove­ring the stands, gene­ra­ting a better foot­ball atmo­sphere, better acou­stics and greater comfort for spec­ta­tors. The stadium will also be 7/365, econo­mic­ally sustainable and with a wide range of hospi­ta­lity acti­vi­ties.

Outlook

The cons­truc­tion works are sche­duled to begin during the first half of 2022 and end in the second half of 2023, allo­wing the new venue to host some sports events of the Pan American Games to be held in Sant­iago in October of that year.

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IDOM

Client

CD Univer­sidad Cató­lica

Physical address

Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
Circun­vala­ción Las Flores 13000
Las Condes
Región Metro­po­li­tana
Chile

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IDOM

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Nou Camp Nou

by | 11 Jan 2021 | Design, Design

Forwards to nature

Nou Camp Nou in Barce­lona

 

 

 

ON‑A
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Situation

Barce­lona curr­ently has just over 6m² of green areas per inha­bi­tant. Accor­ding to the WHO (World Health Orga­niza­tion), cities should have a minimum of 9m².

The ON‑A proposal for the Nou Camp Nou (Nou Parc), a forest that would cover the Camp Nou in Barce­lona, ​​aims to turn the area into a great green lung using bioar­chi­tec­ture as a stra­tegy for rena­tu­ra­tion.

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Strategy

Accor­ding to the ON‑A philo­sophy, the rena­tu­ra­tion of cities and the crea­tion of quality spaces for its citi­zens is not just an inte­res­ting idea, but a need.

Nou Camp Nou aims to show how nature can return to cities without absor­bing addi­tional space.

Topography

The Nou Camp Nou project shows how nature would come back to cities without losing buildable space, raising the topo­graphy and crea­ting a blanket of green forest above the stadium and its faci­li­ties, which would remain below the surface of the new park.

Curr­ently this area is a closed concrete space and only 8% of green areas. Conse­quently, an “island” effect is gene­rated, sepa­ra­ting the neigh­bor­hoods of Les Corts and Zona Univer­si­taria.

Collapse and conversion

The space is huge and is in disuse most of the time, except during sport events or private visits to its faci­li­ties. Neigh­bors often expe­ri­ence collapse when the space comes into opera­tion during major events.

The conver­sion of this area would provide a great oppor­tu­nity for the city of Barce­lona, ​​which would gain a new green space capable of connec­ting neigh­bor­hoods while produ­cing 15,000kg oxygen/day and absorb 25,000kg of C02/day.

Facilities

Inside Nou Parc Nou you could walk or run along a 2.4km route, stretch in green areas and picnic in reserved areas, in addi­tion to enjoy a 360º pano­r­amic view at the highest point of the park, which culmi­nates around the stadium.

The two lakes would help to cool the tempe­ra­ture and help the deve­lo­p­ment and main­ten­ance of the area, as well as being natural coll­ec­tors of rain­water, which could be reused for the irri­ga­tion and main­ten­ance of the park.

Conclusion

This project helps to create a new permea­bi­lity that would allow the connec­tion between the two neigh­bor­hoods of Les Corts and the Univer­sity Area, apart from giving more value to their neigh­bors and to the city of Barce­lona itself without affect mobi­lity and current logi­stics.

Nou Camp Nou turns the journey to FC Barce­lona matches into a spec­ta­cular expe­ri­ence. On all other days, this project is just a great park.

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Architect

ON‑A
C/ Doctor Rizal, 8, local 1
ESP — 08006 Barce­lona

Project team

Jordi Fernández, Eduardo Gutiérrez
Luciana Teodózio, Geor­gina Morales, Saul Ajuría, Ernest Ruiz, Javier Bernal, Claudia Anto­nacci, Natalia Cambello

Physical address

Camp Nou
C. d’Arís­tides Maillol, 12
ESP-08028 Barce­lona

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Campus de Braak

by | 2 Dec 2020 | Design, Installations & Events, Stadiums

Next chapter

Campus de Braak in Helmond

 

 

 

Moederscheim Moonen
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About

The muni­ci­pa­lity council of Helmond in The Nether­lands has given the green light for Campus de Braak in Helmond. The plans for the project were put on hold at the begin­ning of this year after a diffe­rence of opinion with parther profes­sional soccer club Helmond Sport about the program of requi­re­ments, the design and the busi­ness case.

Moedersch­eim­Moonen Archi­tects, Faul­k­ner­Browns and CULD were asked to team up to create a design tail­ored to the new brief. Now that the city council also supports the renewed plan, the project can restart.

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Organisation

In the design, the number of seats has been reduced to 3,600 places which creates more space for the busi­ness areas for Helmond Sport. Addi­tional space has also been created for the youth academy of the soccer club. With the colla­bo­ra­tion of the muni­ci­pa­lity of Helmond, the OMO school group and the other users, a new design has been deve­loped which is centered around multi-func­tion­a­lity.

In addi­tion, the exte­rior has also been deve­loped. Despite the fact that there are now only two large stands, the campus exudes a ’stadium feeling’ through the dynamic verti­cality of the façades. In the case of expan­sion in the future, two new stands can be added in the current buil­ding enve­lope.

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Multi-functionality

Multi-func­tion­a­lity is the essence of the new campus. The campus will be home to Helmond Sport and the Helmond Prac­tice School. The design includes a NOC * NSF sports hall where the amateur foot­ball clubs Helmondia and Mulo will be accom­mo­dated. Addi­tio­nally, a new loca­tion for JvdI De Fysio­club will be created. Space for indi­vi­dual sports and rela­xa­tion is also incor­po­rated with the addi­tion of a running track and shared path for pede­strians and cyclists.

The new buil­ding is surrounded by a central corridor that connects all entry­ways with each other and the surroun­ding neigh­bor­hoods. Thanks to the connec­tion between the campus and the surroun­ding area, Campus de Braak will become an acces­sible meeting and recrea­tional envi­ron­ment for the entire city.

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Moeder­schein Moonen Archi­tects
Faul­k­ner­Browns
CULD

Client

Geme­ente Helmond

Physical address

Sport­park de Braak 5
NL — 5703 DX Helmond

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Xi’an International Football Centre

by | 20 Aug 2020 | Design, Sports Grounds, Stadiums

Welcoming

Xi’an International Football Centre

Zaha Hadid Architects

Situation

The new Xi’an Inter­na­tional Foot­ball Centre will be 60,000-seat stadium for national and inter­na­tional matches as well as dome­stic league games, youth trai­ning acade­mies, enter­tain­ment perfor­mances and cultural events. The centre will be located in Xi’an’s Feng­dong New District with its stations on the city’s expan­ding metro network.

With a popu­la­tion of nine million people and two profes­sional foot­ball clubs, Xi’an will be a host city of the 2023 Asian Foot­ball Confe­de­ra­tion (AFC) Asian Cup in China. Taking its legacy mode of opera­tions as the starting point of the design, the stadium has been desi­gned to provide optimum condi­tions for foot­ball and maxi­mize its use by gene­ra­tions after the 2023 tour­na­ment.

Open façades

Inte­grated within the ortho­gonal urban grid of Fengdong’s busi­ness district, Xi’an Inter­na­tional Foot­ball Centre‘s open façades invite the city into the heart of the buil­ding to enjoy its public spaces, recrea­tion and dining faci­li­ties throug­hout the day. Located in a series of shaded south-facing garden terraces with views over the city to Qing Moun­tain, these amen­i­ties will also serve spec­ta­tors visi­ting the stadium during foot­ball matches, cultural events and perfor­mances.

The swee­ping lines of the façade protect the stadium from nort­herly winds and convey the fluid forms of the roof that shel­ters the saddle-shaped seating bowl which maxi­mizes the spec­tator seating provided at midfield.

Roof

The design employs an ultra-light­weight long span cable-net roof struc­ture, resul­ting in a minimum load and mate­rial foot­print that in turn reduces the stadium’s primary struc­ture. Wide peri­meter roof over­hangs shelter faci­li­ties within the building’s enve­lope while the large, shaded, open-air terraces and public concourses incor­po­rates exten­sive plan­ting on all levels, provi­ding comfor­table condi­tions in Xi’an’s hot conti­nental summer climate.

Supported by the tensioned cable-net struc­ture, a trans­lu­cent membrane over the seating protects spec­ta­tors from incle­ment weather and direct sunlight while also allo­wing the most amount of natural light to reach the playing surface, promo­ting the growth of grass on the pitch to provide playing condi­tions of the highest stan­dard.

Geometry

Digital model­ling has defined the geometry of the spec­ta­tors’ seating bowl to opti­mize proxi­mity and views to the field of play from all 60,000 seats, gene­ra­ting the most exci­ting atmo­sphere for foot­ball and ensu­ring an outstan­ding match expe­ri­ence for all players and spec­ta­tors.

China’s ancient capital and core of the Silk Road, Xi’an has a long history of welco­ming visi­tors from around the world. In the global arena of foot­ball, the Xi’an Inter­na­tional Foot­ball Centre conti­nues this tradi­tion and builds a lasting legacy of new civic spaces, sports and recrea­tional faci­li­ties for the city.

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Architect

Zaha Hadid Archi­tects (ZHA)

Patrik Schu­ma­cher, Charles Walker, Nils Fischer
Jakub Klaska, Lei Zheng
Shajay Bhooshan, Vishu Bhooshan, Jianfei Chu, Chun-Yen Chen, Hung-Da Chien, Marina Dimopoulou, Cesar Fraga­chan, Michael Forward, Matthew Gabe, Stratis Geor­giou, Charles Harris, Yen-fen Huang, Han Hsun Hsieh, Yihoon Kim, Henry Louth, Martha Masli, Mauro Sabiu, Xin Swift, Adeliia Papulzan, Pablo Agustin Vivas

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Intel­li­gent Design for Emer­ging Archi­tec­ture (iDEA)

Yan Gao, Jianyou Yang, Bin Wu, Fiona Huang, Jingshan Zhong, Shis­hang Deng, Qiongli Lu, Ting Liu, Xinyu Kou, Daria Morkov­kina, Haixia Zhang

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Xi’an Inter­na­tional Foot­ball Centre
CN — Feng­dong, Xi’an

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Copenhagen Islands

by | 27 Jul 2020 | Design, Installations & Events

Parkipelago

Copenhagen Islands

Marshall Blecher & Studio Fokstrot

About

The project intro­duces a new arche­type in urban space to the city’s harbour; a “parki­pe­lago” of floa­ting islands, open and free to be used by an incre­asing number of boaters, fishermen, kaya­kers, star­ga­zers and swim­mers.

The islands rein­tro­duce wilder­ness and whimsey to the rapidly gentri­fying harbour, with endemic plants, trees and grasses above and anchor points below provi­ding a habitat for birds and insects, seaweeds, fish and molluscs. the islands offer a constantly chan­ging, gene­rous, green space in the centre of the city. The project also hints at a new type of climate resi­lient urba­nism, inher­ently flexible in its use and only using sustain­ably sourced and recy­cled mate­rials.

Construction

The islands will be cons­tructed by hand in the boat­buil­ding yards in the south habour of Copen­hagen using tradi­tional wooden boat buil­ding tech­ni­ques. They will be moved seaso­nally between unde­r­uti­lised and newly devel­oped parts of the harbour, cata­ly­sing life and acti­vity.

The first proto­type island ‘CPH-Ø1’ was laun­ched in 2018 and became a popular feature in the harbour, moving from place to place, hosting part of a photo­graphy exhi­bi­tion, a series of talks and many seaside picnics. The pro­totype will be followed by three more islands to be laun­ched in 2020, CPH-Ø1, CPH-Ø2 & CPH-Ø3 with plans for even more in the follo­wing years.

Awards

Copen­hagen Islands was awarded the taipei inter­na­tional design awards for public space and the award for social design, It was a fina­list in the Beazley design prize at the London Design Museum and has just been announced as a fina­list in the Danish Design Prize.

Copen­hagen islands is a not for profit initia­tive started by austra­lian archi­tect Marshall Blecher and Danish Design studio Fokstrot, it is supported by køben­havns kommune, by og havn and den gode havneliv.

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Marshall Blecher
Studio Fokstrot

Illustratons

Airflix (Aerials)
MIR (Visua­li­sa­tions)

Author

Marshall Blecher

Opening

2018 / 2020

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Forest Green Rovers Eco Stadium

by | 21 Jan 2020 | Design, Design, Stadiums, Stadiums

Knock on wood

​Forest Green Rovers Eco Stadium

Zaha Hadid Architects

Situation

The Forest Green Rovers Eco Stadium is to become more than just a stadium. Users Forest Green Rovers are the ” gree­nest foot­ball club in the world “, their presi­dent is Dale Vince, the founder of Ecot­ri­city. The stadium will be the centre­piece of the £100 million, 40-hectare sports and green tech­no­logy park deve­lo­p­ment funded by Ecot­ri­city.

The Green Rovers Eco Stadium was desi­gned by Zaha Hadid Archi­tects, and their inte­rest in explo­ring new forms, mate­rials and tech­no­lo­gies is — proven.

However, at the moment there is not much that indi­cates that this ambi­tious project will become reality.
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Vision

Forest Green Rovers have estab­lished a holi­stic vision for the site to retain its pastoral quali­ties whilst adding new faci­li­ties for the town.

While the stadium will be the centre­piece, the project creates a new public realm with both recrea­tional and occu­pa­tional uses, enab­ling the entire site to contri­bute to the town — not only on match days, but every day of the year.

Design

The design retains and enhances the exis­ting meadow land­scape of the site whilst adding the stadium and other func­tions for the town. Embo­dying low carbon cons­truc­tion methods and opera­tional processes, it will be the first all timber foot­ball stadium with almost every element made of sustain­ably sourced timber inclu­ding its struc­ture, roof canti­le­vers and louvered clad­ding.

As a buil­ding mate­rial, timber is highly durable, recy­clable and beau­tiful. The proxi­mity of the stadium’s struc­tural elements to each other has also been deter­mined to enable the seating terraces and floor slab to be made from timber. In most other stadiums, these elements are concrete or steel.

The stadium’s roof is covered with a trans­pa­rent membrane, which contri­butes to turf growth, mini­mizes stark shadows for players and fans and reduces the volu­metric impact of the stadium from distant views in the surroun­ding land­scape.
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Atmosphere

With the team’s commu­nity and supporters at its core, fans will be as close as five meters from the pitch and the posi­tion of every seat has been calcu­lated to provide excel­lent, unrest­ricted views of the entire field of play. The stadium’s conti­nuous spec­tator bowl surroun­ding the pitch will maxi­mise matchday atmo­sphere.

The stadium’s design incor­po­rates the club’s future growth. Initi­ally for 5,000 spec­ta­tors, incre­asing to 10,000 with the club’s success, expan­sion from phase 1 to phase 2 can be achieved without the costs of major cons­truc­tion works.

Carbon

Forest Green Rovers’ new stadium and Eco Park aims to be carbon neutral or carbon nega­tive, inclu­ding measures such as the provi­sion of on-site rene­wable energy gene­ra­tion.

Dale Vince, Ecot­ri­city founder and Forest Green Rovers chairman, said: “The really standout thing about this stadium is that it’s going to be almost enti­rely made of wood – the first time that will have been done anywhere in the world.

“The importance of wood is not only that it’s natu­rally occur­ring, it has very low embo­died carbon – about as low as it gets for a buil­ding mate­rial.

“And when you bear in mind that around three quar­ters of the life­time carbon impact of any stadium comes from its buil­ding mate­rials, you can see why that’s so important – and it’s why our new stadium will have the lowest embo­died carbon of any stadium in the world.
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Eco Park

Half of Eco Park will consist of state-of-the-art sporting faci­li­ties, inclu­ding the new stadium, grass and all-weather trai­ning pitches, publicly acces­sible multi-disci­pli­nary faci­li­ties, and a sports science hub.

The other half will comprise a green tech­no­logy busi­ness park with sustain­ably built commer­cial offices and light indus­trial units, giving Eco Park the poten­tial to create up to 4,000 jobs, inclu­ding room for the continued expan­sion of green energy company Ecot­ri­city, who have submitted the overall proposal and who are already the biggest employer in Stroud with 700 people located across four sites.

The proposal will also see the deve­lo­p­ment of a nature reserve on the site, a poten­tial public trans­port hub, inclu­ding a Stroud Park and Ride, as well as help with the resto­ra­tion of the Stroud­water canal.

Local parish coun­cils initi­ally endorsed the entire project, but rejected it in the summer of 2019.

Whether and how things will continue is curr­ently comple­tely uncer­tain. A shame.

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Client

Forest Green Rovers Foot­ball Club
Ecot­ri­city

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Zaha Hadid Archi­tects (ZHA)

 

Architect

Zaha Hadid Archi­tects (ZHA)

Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schu­ma­cher, Jim Heverin, Sara Klomps, Kart­hi­keyan, Aruna­chalam, Sara Akbari, Muriel Boselli, Avery Chen, Saman Dadgo­star, Cynthia Du, Paulo Flores, Fabian Hecker, Jakub Klaska, Vincent Konaté, Igor Pantic, Edgar Payan, Sven Torres, Theodor Wender, Richard Wase­n­egger

Address

Forest Green Rovers Foot­ball Club
The New Lawn Stadium Another Way
Nails­worth GL6 0FG
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Preikestolen

by | 23 Oct 2019 | Pools, Design, Design, Pools

Do not look down

Infinity Pool at Preikestolen

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Tom Cruise at 604 m altitude

Prei­ke­stolen (“The Pulpit Rock”) is a tourist attrac­tion in Norway, a steep cliff which rises 604 metres above the Lysefjorden. Atop the cliff, there is an almost flat top of appro­xi­m­ately 25 by 25 metres. Prei­ke­stolen is located near the Western part of the fjord, and on its North side. The final fight scene in “Mission: Impos­sible – Fallout“ features Tom Cruise clim­bing the face of the cliff at Prei­ke­stolen.
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Nine suites, one pool

Inspired by this scenic over­look, Hayri Atak Archi­tec­tural Design Studio has desi­gned a spec­ta­cular concept for an infi­nity pool and a boutique hotel. The proposal features the accom­mo­da­tions nestled onto a side of Prei­ke­stolen over the Lysefjorden fjords.

The canti­le­vered glass-bottom pool allows coura­geous swim­mers to enjoy the water while looking down into the fjord. The nine-suite hotel would be entered from the top of the cliff, with a common lounge area and guest rooms nestled into the face of the rock. The upper entryway would double as a scenic over­look, while real adven­ture seekers would want to venture to the pool deck.

Emotions

The entire concept was inspired by a photo­graph sent to studio founder Hayri Atak. Thrilled by the photo a friend took during her vaca­tion to Norway, Atak sought to capture the adre­na­line pumping scene into his archi­tec­ture. “Even though I wasn’t there, I expe­ri­enced the adre­na­line of being on the edge,” Atak said. “Then I dreamed of living on and beyond the edge. Simply, I just wanted to carry this expe­ri­ence beyond the edge and the idea of having this expe­ri­ence inspired me.”

Prei­ke­stolen attracts more than 300,000 visi­tors every year. You usually have to wait a long time to take a picture of the soli­tary crea­ture on the moun­tain plateau. For this reason alone it is hard to imagine that a hotel will ever be built here. It is, however, a lesson about the importance of emotions for archi­tec­ture. And it is a wonderful inspi­ra­tion and moti­va­tion for coura­geous ideas and designs.

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Archi­tect and address

Architect

Hayri Atak
Ataşehir – İstanbul
Türkei

Address

Prei­ke­stolen
4129 Songe­sand

Norwegen

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Infinity London

by | 14 Aug 2019 | Design, Design, Pools, Sports Grounds

Pool with a view

Infinity London

Compass Pool

Ambitious

Death defying swim­ming pools are set to become an archi­tec­tural trend in central London, allo­wing visi­tors to float over 200 metres above the capital’s skyline. Pool desi­gners at Compass Pools have deve­loped Infi­nity London, the only buil­ding in the world to incor­po­rate a 360-degree infi­nity pool.

The pool is made from cast acrylic rather than glass, as this mate­rial trans­mits light at a similar wave­length to water so that the pool will look perfectly clear.

The floor of the pool is also trans­pa­rent, allo­wing visi­tors to see the swim­mers and sky above.

Getting into the water

Swim­mers will access the pool through a rota­ting spiral stair­case based on the door of a subma­rine, rising from the pool floor when someone wants to get in or out. A little bit James Bond to boot!”

Normally a simple ladder would suffice, but the desi­gners didn’t want stairs on the outside of the buil­ding or in the pool as it would spoil the view – and obviously they don’t want 600,000 litres of water drai­ning through the buil­ding either.

Building services

Other advanced tech­nical features include a built-in anemo­meter to monitor the wind speed. This is linked to a computer-controlled buil­ding manage­ment system to ensure the pool stays at the right tempe­ra­ture and water doesn’t get blown down to the streets below.

Boas­ting an inno­va­tive twist on rene­wable energy, the pool’s heating system will use waste energy from the air condi­tion system for the buil­ding. The hot gas that is produced as a by-product of crea­ting cold air in the buil­ding will run through a heat exch­anger to heat the water for the pool.

The pool is also fitted with a full spec­trum of lights which will give the buil­ding the appearance of a spar­k­ling jewel-topped torch at night.

Approach

Compass Pool’s swim­ming pool desi­gner and tech­nical director Alex Kemsley commented: “Archi­tects often come to us to design roof top infi­nity pools, but rarely do we get a say in the buil­ding design because the pool is usually an aftert­hought.

“But on this project, we actually started with the pool design and essen­ti­ally said, ‘how do we put a buil­ding under­neath this?’ “When we desi­gned the pool, we wanted an unin­ter­rupted view, both above and below the water.

It will have a five-star inter­na­tional hotel on the top floors of the buil­ding with the pool used by the guests.

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