Stadio Communale Travettore di Rosà

by | 9 Nov 2020 | Sports Grounds, Stadia, Stadiums

When structure becomes architecture

Stadio Communale Travettore di Rosà

Didonè Comacchio Architects

Situation

The Italian studio Didonè Comac­chio Archi­tects has built a covered grand­stand for the muni­cipal stadium of Travet­tore di Rosà in Italy, which derives its grace and elegance from its reduced formal language — enti­rely in the style of Classic Moder­nism. A covered spec­tator area with 300 seats was required.

The Stadio Commu­nale Travet­tore di Rosà is the home of the FCD Trans­vector (Secunda Cate­goria, that is the 8th league) near Vicenza. It was opened in summer 2020.

Majestic

With a few gestures, the archi­tects create a clear and covered space that sits like a hinge between the natural envi­ron­ment and the pitch.

The roof of the Stadio Commu­nale Travet­tore di Rosà reminds very maje­s­ti­cally of the coffered ceiling of the New National Gallery in Berlin. It is supported by two massive concrete slabs, and they are also at right angles to each other and poin­ting the way.

Strict

The rectan­gular roof struc­ture, 30.5 meters long and 10.5 meters wide, consists of a grid of steel girders that form a coffered ceiling. A single, linear, hori­zontal element made of steel can be expe­ri­enced.

The lighting is located in the panels. It is covered by a dark metal grid in the color of the roof.

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Ceremonial

These two rein­forced concrete bodies and the concrete steps under this roof provide a cele­bra­tion appro­priate to Italian soccer. Struc­ture becomes archi­tec­ture. The strict form demands full concen­tra­tion on art.

These are simi­la­ri­ties to Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery. Here, art simply consists of a match in the eighth Italian league.

Soccer is art when it appears simple. This also applies to archi­tec­ture.

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Project data

Architect

Didonè Comac­chio Archi­tects
Via dei Prati, 14
I — 36027 — Rosà, Vicenza

Project team

Paolo Didonè, Devvy Comac­chio, Gian­marco Miolo, Denis Stop­pi­glia, Lorenzo Fravezzi

Trag­werks­pla­nung:
Ing Stefano Scomazzon (i+da)
Betonbau:
Impresa edile F.lli Bizzotto
Stahlbau:
Lorenzin srl

Physical address

Stadio Commu­nale Travet­tore di Rosà
Via Cà Diedo
I — 36027 Rosà VI

Opening

2020

Photograph

Simone Bossi Photo­grapher

Author

Johannes Bühl­be­cker
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Tammela Stadium

by | 19 Feb 2018 | Design, Stadia

Room with a view

Tammela Stadium in Tampere

Situation

Tammela Stadium is situated in the midst of resi­den­tial buil­dings and is home to the foot­ball club Ilves in the Finnish town of Tampere. It was built in 1931, offers 5,000 seats on two diffe­rent stands and is to be replaced by a new buil­ding.

New Tammela Stadium aims to unify the city struc­ture in Tammela by rein­tro­du­cing tradi­tional closed block struc­ture to an area that has become frag­mented and inco­herent. There is a green “cour­tyard” surrounded by a conti­nuous low buil­ding mass housing small shops like in historic city blocks that have mostly been torn down. In the East, the block boar­ders Kaleva Boule­vard in the same line with an old school buil­ding North of the stadium. On the Western side the block is retracted to form a small entrance square for the buil­ding and to leave enough space for the exis­ting housing. This is how the exis­ting row of trees can be preserved. This is important as there are only few green spaces in the area and every tree counts.

Buildings from all four sides

Surroun­ding the pitch with buil­dings from all four sides makes the block effi­cient and finan­ci­ally sustainable without making the stadium too massive in valuable historic setting. The City of Tampere aims to finance the public stadium project by selling the buil­ding right for the housing on top of the stadium. As the audi­ence surrounds players from all four sides the bowl like space is spati­ally very intense. The heights of the crown like block’s tips have been carefully adapted to surroun­ding buil­dings. By pushing down the middle parts of the sides, the neigh­bors’ long views have been preserved and the school cour­tyard still gets direct sunlight. The home team of Tampere is called Ilves meaning lynx. You can see refe­rences to lynx’s ear tufts or the flight path of a foot­ball in the form of the block.

Architect

avanto archi­tects ltd
kale­van­katu 31 a
3 fi — 00100 helsinki
finland

Client

City of Tampere

Address

Kalevan puistotie 21
33500 Tampere
Finland

Aerial view

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Enter from all four corners

You may enter the stadium from all four corners. It is easy to find the entrances that are situated under the vaulted ceiling of buil­ding masses at the ends of the field. As required by UEFA, it is possible to arrange a sepa­rate entrance and stand for a visitor team. The most public func­tions, the restau­rant and the gym, have been placed in the block corners so that they are easy to reach. The idea is to open the buil­ding for the local resi­dents as well. All spaces are flexible and can be used by diffe­rent users during diffe­rent times of the day so that the use ratio of spaces can be raised. The hybrid block housing various func­tions is active 24/7.

The field is oriented North-South and the main stand with TV cameras is on the West side, accor­ding to UEFA instruc­tions. As the bridge like buil­dings on rein­forced concrete arcs on the short ends need no columns, even the end stands have unob­s­tructed views to the field. The stands can tempo­r­a­rily be extended to fill the highest UEFA cate­gory 4.

Living in a stadium

As the buil­ding volume is rela­tively thick, many diffe­rent types of housing can be built. The proposed student flats coun­ter­ba­lance the demo­gra­phic struc­ture of the area with mostly elderly people. Special emphases was put to the social sustaina­bi­lity of the project. The sense of commu­nity is created by intro­du­cing various common spaces like green conser­va­to­ries and saunas with exten­sive roof terraces. The gene­rous side-corridor provides extra space for storing a bicycle, urban gardening or even watching a match inside the stadium with your neigh­bors. The upper­most floor with curved roof houses loft apart­ments with varying ceiling height.

Ground plans

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Casa Futebol

by | 19 Feb 2018 | Design, Installations & Events, Stadia

The day after

Casa Futebol: Living in a World Cup stadium

White elephants

The project “Casa Futebol” proposes a mixed and sustainable use of the stadiums reno­vated or built for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil by inser­ting 105m² housing modules. Casa Futebol is an archi­tec­tural response to the white elephants resul­ting from major sports events like the Fifa World Cup 2014 in Brazil. The project was desi­gned by Axel de Stampa et Sylvain Macaux as a part of their Think Tank “1week1project”. Casa Futebol takes into account the housing deficit in Brazil (5.2 million homes) and covers all 12 Brazi­lian World Cup stadiums.

Living spaces

Axel de Stampa et Sylvain Macaux insert living space into these stadiums, repla­cing the upper stands by prefa­bri­cated housing. Six stadiums are capable to inte­grate apart­ments in their facade: Brazilia, Mineirao, Arena Fonte Nova, Mara­cana, Arena Castelao and Arena Das Duna. Five of these six stadiums have been built with concrete or metal columns patterns with a 7 or 8 metres span. The prefa­bri­cated housing units can easily be inserted between the spans. The central part of the stadiums (pitch and lower stands) is not affected.

Keep the stadium alive

There are appro­xi­m­ately 315 resi­den­tial units cove­ring the exte­rior facade and 315 indoor units for the Brasilia National Stadium. About 1,500 to 2,000 people could live in each stadium, in total about 20,000.

The archi­tects are concerned about the socials context accom­panying such big events. The stadiums are absurdly big, the housing issue in Brazil is so real. Cape Town Stadium, venue of the 2010 World Cup Final in South Africa, only hosted only seven matches in four years.

In their opinion, every place, whether urban, land­scaped or digital, has some­thing new to offer. To become more playful, to release a more radical emotion, to give back to the public its status as a full-fledged actor, the possi­bi­li­ties are infi­nite.

Designer

 

1 WEEK 1 PROJECT

Axel de Stampa
Sylvain Macaux

Rwanda Cricket Stadium

by | 8 Feb 2018 | Sports Grounds, Stadia

Celebrating imperfection

Rwanda Cricket Stadium

History

Cricket was barely played in Rwanda before the 1994 geno­cide. Now there are 7,000 players nati­on­wide, and the sport is playing a lead role in the healing process. The inau­gu­ra­tion of Rwanda Cricket Stadium marks the end of a remar­kable six-year under­ta­king by the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foun­da­tion who have raised the £1 million required to build the spec­ta­cular new home of Rwandan cricket. Previously Rwanda’s only other cricket pitch was at at Ecole Tech­nique Offi­ci­elle, the site of a noto­rious 1994 massacre and the loca­tion of the film Shoo­ting Dogs.

The Rwanda Cricket Stadium is desi­gned for long-term sustaina­bi­lity. The entire site is being cons­tructed to ensure signi­fi­cant carbon savings and sustainable water usage, it will incor­po­rate envi­ron­men­tally sensi­tive design, provide jobs for the local commu­nity, and ensure a revenue stream that will allow for the upkeep of the faci­lity and further invest­ment in the game. The cons­truc­tion process used predo­mi­nantly local labour, inves­ting in the local commu­nity.

The new pavi­lion, which will also serve as an HIV testing centre and restau­rant in the future is a fanta­stic feat of engi­nee­ring, built using 66,000 hand­made tiles in layers without using concrete. The arched pavi­lion design repres­ents the fall of a boun­cing ball and spec­tator seating will be carved out of the earth to mimic the terraced farms on the steep Kigali Hills that provide a spec­ta­cular back­drop.

Architect

Light Earth Designs
Pioneer House
Chivers Way
Histon
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
UK-CB24 9NL

Team

Tim Hall, Michael Ramage, Ana Gatóo, Ben Veyrac, Wesam Al Asali, Anton Larsen, Marco Groenstege, Oliver Hudson, Killian Doherty

Client

Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation
PHOTOGRAPHS

Construction

Die Fliesen wurden vor Ort aus lokalen Mate­ria­lien von ange­lernten Einhei­mi­schen herge­stellt. Sie wurden mit einer kleinen Zugabe von Zement hydrau­lisch gepresst und mussten nicht gebrannt werden. Sie wurden schicht­weise auf ein provi­so­ri­sches Holz­ske­lett gelegt und sind für Spann­weiten von bis zu 16 Metern geeignet. Geogitter wurden hinzu­ge­fügt, um einen gewissen seis­mi­schen Schutz zu bieten. Die Schalen sind wasser­dicht und wurden dann mit lokalem gebro­chenem Granit (der überall im Land zu finden ist) über­zogen.

In die Gewölbe werden einfache, effi­zi­ente und dünne Beton­ti­sche einge­setzt, die Platz für die geschlos­senen Funk­tionen der Service­be­reiche bieten: Umklei­de­räume, Büros, Restau­rant. Diese Tische sind mit natür­li­chen ruan­di­schen Fliesen gestaltet. Die offenen Mezza­nine – die Bar und das Club­haus – bieten einen herr­li­chen Panora­ma­blick über das Oval und in die wunder­schöne Land­schaft.

Mit Hilfe von Ziegel­steinen werden Grenzen und Zwischen­räume defi­niert, die oft in perfo­rierter Fugen verlegt werden, so dass Luft und Licht hindurch gelangen. Für den Boden­belag werden die Abfälle des ruan­di­schen Granit­bo­dens und der Arbeits­platten verwendet. Die Sperr­holz-Recht­ecke, aus denen die Fliesen gepresst werden, werden als Arbeits­platten wieder­ver­wendet, während Holz und Sperr­holz aus der Gewöl­be­füh­rung zu Türen verar­beitet werden, so dass ein Maximum an Abfall­stoffen in die Primär­pro­duk­tion gelangt. Die Stütz­mauern bestehen entweder aus lokalen Granit­blö­cken oder sind hohl, um die Bepflan­zung zu ermög­li­chen.

Author

Light Earth Designs
Johannes Bühlbecker

Photograph

Light Earth Designs
Michael Ramage, Jonathan Gregson

Address

Unnamed Road
Ruanda

Aerial view

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Prospects

The buil­ding grows out of the cut soil banking that was formed as the pitch was levelled — thus beco­ming part of the land­scape. The banking creates a wonderful natural amphi­theatre with great views to the pitch and wetland valley beyond.

Whilst the language of the buil­ding speaks about progres­sion and dyna­mism through extreme struc­tural effi­ci­ency, the mate­rials speak of the natural, the hand made and the human. It a buil­ding made by Rwandans using Rwandan mate­rials.

The imper­fec­tions are cele­brated — they are human and beau­tiful — and when combined with the laye­ring of natural textures the buil­ding becomes imbues and cele­brates this wonderful place.

U Arena

by | 16 Dec 2017 | Sports Halls, Stadia

Salle de Spectacles

U Arena in Paris

Situation

U Arena, known in its earlier plan­ning and cons­truc­tion stages as Arena 92, is a newly opened multi-use domed stadium, the first in Europe since Telenor Arena in Oslo, 2009. The arena was desi­gned by Chris­tian de Portzam­parc Archi­tecte and built by the French rugby union club Racing 92 in the western suburbs of Paris.

U Arena is located in the town of Nanterre feet of the “Grande Arche” of La Défense. This project falls within the scope of opera­tion of national inte­rest “Seine-Arche”. It stands in the rectangle formed by the new neighborhood’s road grid “embedded” in a dense urban fabric. It has a horse­shoe layout; one side is formed by an office buil­ding which will house the Hauts-de-Seine County Council from April 2018. It was to build the house of “Racing”, an ultra-modern enclo­sure, whose club will draw most of its finan­cial resources by orga­ni­zing, beside of rugby match, enter­tain­ment of all kinds.

Origi­nally planned to open in 2014 but delayed due to local protests, it opened in October 2017.

Architect

Chris­tian de Portzam­parc Archi­tecte
38, rue La Bruyère
F‑75009 Paris

Client

Racing Arena, Jacky Loren­zetti

PHOTOGRAPHS

Configuration

The venue, origi­nally planned to have a retrac­table roof but instead built with a fixed roof, offers three sepa­rate confi­gu­ra­tions.

  • In its rugby confi­gu­ra­tion, it will have a capa­city of 32,000.
  • For concerts, it will be able to seat 40,000.
  • A movable stand will allow it to be used for indoor sports, with a capa­city as low as 5,000.

Address

Stade U Arena
99 Jardin de l’Arche
Nanterre Paris-La Défense
France

Aerial view

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RUGBY

CONCERT

SMALLER EVENTS

To express its iden­tity as a perfor­mance space, the archi­tect has installed a main entrance on the core axis of La Défense, and as in all major stadia, the access points are on the three sides of the U shape. Under the seating, the space is totally occu­pied by recep­tion areas, dres­sing rooms and refresh­ment areas, to give them light from the street.

And surroun­ding the lower part of the seating, a “neck­lace” of glass scales forming a regular series of shells in white and gray aluminum and lightly seri­gra­phed glass. This neck­lace illu­mi­nates the lobbies and dres­sing rooms.

U Arena replaces  Stade Yves-du-Manoir which had been home of  Racing 92 since 1907. 
im Pariser Vorort Colombes, das bereits Austra­gungsort der Olym­pi­schen Sommer­spiele 1924 war. Aufgrund seiner alternden Bausub­stanz und der rück­läu­figen Zuschau­er­ka­pa­zität wurde im Jahr 2011 der Umzug in ein neues Stadion in Nanterre beschlossen.

Construction costs

€360,000,000

Opening

10/2017

DRAWINGS

Numbers and facts

  • 6,100 tonnes: the weight of the roof at 40 meters above the ground. The roof is made up of four mega beams, the most important of which weighs 1,200 tonnes.
  • Extre­mely large span frame of 150 meters x 110 meters and 14 meters thic­k­ness.
  • 592 giant aluminum and glass scales illu­mi­nated by 3,000 LED strips can vary in 16 million colors. Each scale is equipped with LED strips with an inde­pen­dent IP address, offe­ring infi­nite fixed and dynamic light compo­si­tions.
  • 51,754 m² surface of the buil­ding inclu­ding 11,000 m² of field.
  • 13 kilo­me­ters and 17,000 m² of blea­chers.
  • 16 entrances.
  • A prefa­bri­cated concrete facade with 645 concrete shells (368 planes, 193 cylind­rical, 47 torics, 42 conical, 16 deve­lo­pable, 3 single, 6 compound).
  • 2,400 m²: the size of the giant projec­tion screen, among the largest in the world.
  • 44 Barco HDF projec­tors (30,000 lumens each) equip the hall.
  • 350 HD screens distri­buted throug­hout the entire enclo­sure.
  • 3,380 VIP seats distri­buted in 95 private boxes and 8 lounges.

The Rolling Stones were the first band to ever perform a concert in the stadium, closing their Europe-only „No Filter Tour“ with three shows on 19, 22, and 25 October 2017. A good start.

Author of text

Chris­tian de Portzam­parc Archi­tecte

Photographs

Nicolas-Borel
CDP
Anthony Folliau

VIDEOS

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San Mamés

by | 13 Sep 2017 | Stadia, Stadiums

Estadio de San Mamés

Bilbao, Spain

 

Situation

Athletic Club of Bilbao is one of the big clubs in Euro­pean foot­ball and its previous stadium, over a hundred years old, was one of the legen­dary ones, popu­larly referred to as the cathe­dral of foot­ball.

Located prac­ti­cally in the same place as the exis­ting one, the new stadium over­laps with the old San Mames. This fact forced its cons­truc­tion to be carried out in two phases in such a way that it prevented the team from having to play away.

 

History

Opened in 1913, old San Mames was Spain’s oldest built stadium. The stadium was built near a church called San Mamés. The first match was played in August 1913, the first goal was scored by the famous striker Pichichi. San Mamés could seat almost forty thousand people and was renowned for ist unique atmo­sphere fans created on match-days.

In 1982, on the occa­sion of the World Cup, in which Bilbao was one of the venues, San Mamés expe­ri­enced its last great trans­for­ma­tion, remai­ning with the current design. Back then, the stadium had a capa­city for 46,000 spec­ta­tors, later reduced to the current 40,000 spec­ta­tors after the adapt­a­tion of the UEFA secu­rity regu­la­tions.

In March 2006, a project was approved to replace the stadium with a new and larger version, thereby incre­asing the stadium capa­city to 53,000.

Physical address

Rafael Moreno Pitxitxi Kalea, s/n
48013 Bilbao
Vizcaya, Spanien

Aerial view

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Inauguration

2014

Spectator seats

53,000 seats
3,300 hospi­ta­lity seats
100 sky boxes

Exterior views

Club

San Mames is the home of Athletic Bilbao (Basque: Athletic Kluba). The club is one of three foun­ding members of the Primera Divi­sión that have never been rele­gated, the others being Real Madrid and Barce­lona. Athletic have won La Liga on eight occa­sions. In the table of Copa del Rey (spanish footall cup), Athletic is second only to Barce­lona, having won it 24 times.

Athletic Bilbao is known for its policy to promote young Basque players, as well as recrui­ting top Basque players from other clubs like Joseba Etxe­berria and Javi Martínez. Since its foun­da­tion in 1898, Athletic has played exclu­si­vely with players meeting the criteria to be deemed as Basque players, and has been one of the most successful teams of La Liga – a quite unique case in Euro­pean foot­ball.

Architect

idom
Avda Zarandoa 23
48015 Bizkaia
T: +34 94 479 76 00
F: +34 94 476 18 04
alberto.tijero@idom.com

Project team

Cesar A. Azca­rate Gomez, Alberto Tijero, Oscar Malo, Diego Rodri­guez, Alex­ander Zeuss, Gontzal Martinez, Ricardo Moutinho, Luis Ausin

User

Athletic Club
44,560 members

Client

San Mames Barria
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Interior views

Maintaining the magic

 One of the main chal­lenges in the design of the New San Mames was main­tai­ning the intense and magical foot­ball atmo­sphere of the old Cathe­dral. This effect has not only been sustained but increased, thoroughly satis­fying the demands of one of the best fan bases in the world.

The loca­tion of the new stadium, at the end of the urban mesh of the expan­sion district of Bilbao, peeping over the estuary with privi­lege, turns the buil­ding into a piece of archi­tec­ture that must be intro­duced cate­go­ri­cally and with force, but at the same time, respec­ting the rest of the buil­dings that make up that area of the city. From this reflec­tion comes one of the first aspects borne in mind for its design. That is, the percep­tion of the erected cons­truc­tion as an urban buil­ding, in rela­tion to the others and not just as simple sports faci­li­ties.

Author of text

ACXT & Athletic Club

Photograph

Aitor Ortiz
Site plan and ground plans

Worthless to valuable

It was intended for those stadium areas that are tradi­tio­nally wort­hless to become valuable. These are located between the stadium’s peri­meter and the rear part of the stands and consti­tute the circu­la­tion areas through which you can access and exit the stands, which are, after all, the main part of the whole foot­ball stadium. In order to give these areas an added value, the stra­tegy of the project consisted of, not only giving them spatial features, but also making sure that they had a very intense connec­tion with the city and the surroun­dings.

For this purpose, a basic element that will surely give character to the New San Mames stadium is put into play on the façade. This is, the repe­ti­tion of a twisted ETFE element, giving the eleva­tion energy and unity. This element will be illu­mi­nated at night, thus crea­ting an urban land­mark over the estuary, projec­ting a new image of Bilbao from within, thanks to one of the most advanced dynamic lighting systems in the world. The roof, formed by powerful radial metal trusses orien­tated towards the centre of the pitch, is covered with white ETFE cushions, cove­ring the entire stands.

The set-up of the stands is totally focused on the field, maxi­mi­zing the pres­sure that the fans exert on the game, just like in the old San Mames, known the world over for being like a pres­sure cooker where the public would be on top of the players.

 

Minimal distance, maximum access

In first instance the new stadium main­tains the dimen­sions of the original field, 105 x 68 meters, and also keeps at a minimum the distance between the playing field and the first row of stands demanded by inter­na­tional stan­dards.

The new stadium playing field has been buried about 7.8 meters below ground level so as to reduce the overall height of the cons­truc­tion and thus allow direct access without barriers to the lower stands. In addi­tion, throug­hout the peri­meter of the stadium a pede­strian walkway has been obtained which will faci­li­tate access and exit of spec­ta­tors and will become an ample urban space on the days there are no matches.

The stadium has ample hospi­ta­lity areas, with VIP boxes, premium seating and its leisure and meeting areas, restau­rants, cafes, the Club’s Museum, the Offi­cial Shop and areas for meetings, as well as a sports centre open to the general public under one of its stands. Its capa­city will exceed 53,000 spec­ta­tors.

In addi­tion, San Mames complex includes other uses such as the museum, a commer­cial area, restau­rant, cafe­teria, event halls and confe­rence halls.

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