The designers of Antofagasta’s new regional stadium first understood their project as a quest for normalization. When a building is normalized, one could say, it’s taken as an existing element. As something that has always been. In the case of the stadium in Antofagasta and the public areas around it, the stadium needed to become a “given” in its environment, silencing any feeling that there may have been a time before it existed, and taking advantage of all the potential of its surroundings. All this, while also improving the area’s architecture and aesthetics.
The Antofagasta Regional Stadium, recently completed in the northern section of Chile, works to respect the existing structure while also becoming an urban landmark. It foments an architectural unity both around and within itself, unity that before the stadium was constructed had not yet been realized in the area.