DESIGN NAME: Ael Fc Arena
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Football Stadium
INSPIRATION: Referring mentally to a box of light that opens revealing its content, the roof of the stadium formats a landscape of deveins surfaces that compose a continuous front on the eastern boundary of the square; the two volumes of the shopping center frame the other sides respectively. The extensive use of glass and metal shows off an airy architecture that functions as a floodlit object during the night; here, the unpredictable refractions of natural and artificial light on the crystalline forms create a glowing drop-scene which invites you to observe it.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The facility includes the new football stadium of Larissa F.C., the sports team hostel, a commercial-entertaining center, cultural functions and a tennis club. Starting point of the design was the development, around the central square, of successive activities that interact with each other while ensuring vital space for pedestrians. The overall organization is divided into sub regions, with identifiable characteristics, reducing the scale of the complex, while pedestrian path axes traverse the site releasing diagonal viewing.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The experience of the football game and the commingling, the walk and the stand, coexist everywhere as overlapping events.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Location: Neapoli, Larissa, Greece
Design: 2005-2009
Construction: 2009-2010
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The stadium roof system creates a set of jagged surfaces while the extensive use of glass and metal shows off an airy architecture that functions as a floodlit object during the night. Here, the unpredictable refractions of natural and artificial light on the crystalline forms create a glowing drop-scene which invites you to observe it.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Building Area: 48.900 square meters
TAGS: architecture, football, stadium, tiers, Larissa, potiropoulos, building
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Abstractly referring to a box of light that opens revealing its content, the roof of the stadium formats a landscape of deveins surfaces that compose a continuous front on the eastern boundary of the square.
CHALLENGE: The research challenge was the development, around the central square, of successive activities that interact with each other while ensuring vital space for pedestrians.
ADDED DATE: 2021-09-27 12:35:59
TEAM MEMBERS (7) : Client: A.E.L. FC, Architect: Potiropoulos+Partners, Structural Engineer: T. Tsiknias & Associates SA, Electromechanical Engineer: TEAM M-H Ltd, Traffic engineer: Dromos LTD, Environmental Impact assessment: Prof. Economou, Professor of Land Planning, University of Thessally and Geotechnical engineer: Sotiropoulos & Associates SA
IMAGE CREDITS: Photographs: Charalambos Louizidis, Katerina Glinou
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