It is made of colored containers and is the first movable sports venue in the history of the World Cups
A trip to South Africa, host of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, was central to the architects. They didn’t want to repeat the image of the “white elephants,” million-dollar buildings left abandoned after the last great global football spectacle. British-Spanish architecture studio Fenwick Iribarren Architects, based in Alcobendas, Madrid, has chosen to create the first removable stadium in the history of the World Cups for the Qatar edition.
This colorful structure consists of shipping containers and resembles a Lego set. The architects themselves, Mark Fenwick and Javier Iribarren, started to build it as such.
Does this mean the rooms will be reduced to these three sizes? Absolute. In some areas, several containers have been joined together, with the walls completely or partially omitted. In a project of this size, with a strong focus on sustainability, efforts are also being made to reduce energy consumption. Stadium 974 is the only one located on the seafront of Doha that promotes natural ventilation.
The architects Mark Fenwick and Javier Iribarren have used a color code in their containers. In this way, the fans of this world event can know the function of each of the pieces that are distributed over the four floors of the stadium.
The stadium can be completely dismantled and rebuilt at a different location, according to the architects’ manual. There is also the possibility to make combinations of elements of different sizes and thus obtain various sports facilities. And not necessarily for football.
In the coming days there will be matches up to and including the eighth finals. When dismantled, the site remains completely free, so that Stadium 974 does not become a ‘white elephant’ again. The donation to underdeveloped countries is foreseen. Although it remains to be seen what will be the fate of this colorful modular structure and the land it now occupies.
Source: La Verdad
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