Design
a stadium
architecture construction management.Second edition.
Emilio Faroldi
Davide Allegri
Pietro Chierici
Maria Pilar Vettori
Politecnica Series, Maggioli Publishers
Rimini 2022
ABSTRACT
Within the processes of urban redevelopment and land transformation, the soccer stadium, elevated to a multifunctional cultural infrastructure, allows for the investigation of the relationship between innovative factors of architectural production and new organizational models for the management of large-scale projects, incorporating the themes of complexity, multidisciplinarity and interscalarity that fuel the current debate regarding the transformation of the territory, making use of the new scientific paradigms of technological design.
The contemporary stadium constitutes an architectural model capable of producing services, competitiveness and innovation, representing an opportunity and a vehicle for social and economic content through the creation of relationship opportunities and experiences. The comparison and integration with the cultural and territorial context, the technological, functional and managerial complexity of its components, make the "stadium" project evolve to a process articulated in parallel and multi-scalar phases, in which the themes of multifunctionality, flexibility and security become keys to the interpretation of current strategies of building intervention at the urban scale, with a view to sustainable and socially integrated design.
The stadium plays the role of a social activator, able to accommodate and satisfy the needs and requirements expressed by society, strengthening the link with the community of reference, increasing the perceived value and pleasure expected from the enjoyment of the facility itself. The territory constitutes the horizon with which the new multifunctional stadium is confronted, introducing logic and opportunities for the physical, economic and social qualification and enhancement of a dynamically evolving reality: designing a stadium today means designing the territory in conjunction with one of its main cultural infrastructures.
