Beira-Rio Stadium

Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Beira-Rio Stadium

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Firm

Hype Studio

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Stadium

YEAR

2014

SIZE

1,000,000 +

In November of 2006 Hype Studio Architecture was invited by Sport Club Internacional Works Commision to create and present a roofing project for Beira-Rio stadium – an old dream of the club’s Directive Board. After working for 5 months on the project, Hype Studio architects concluded that only covering Beira-Rio would not be enough, considering the stadium was almost 40 years old and was quite lagged comparing with modern stadiums – infrastructure, comfort and security-wise. The same conclusion took place regarding the surroundings of Beira-Rio Complex, considered by Hype Studio as a big urban void situated at a privileged area in Porto Alegre: between the Historical City Centre and the South Zone, between Santa Teresa Hills and Guaíba Lake.

On the 2nd of april of 2007, date scheduled to present to the Club’s Board the roofing project, Hype Studio presented Inter not only the roof that is being built today, but also a General Stadium Modernization Project, that intended the demolition and rebuilding of the lower stands (bigger and closer to the field), stores and commercial centres on the inside of the stadium, a new museum, restaurants, an entire ring of suites between the inferior and the superior stands, VIP areas and new lounge areas, among other items that would make Beira-Rio completely new for the 21st century – renewed, modern, comfortable and safe. It was also presented an urban Master Plan to the region, projecting a garage building, hotel, commercial buildings, convention centre and the transformation of Gigantinho Gymnasium in a multipurpose concert arena. The project was so well received that, on the next month, it was presented to the Sports Minister during a ceremony at the Beira-Rio Events Centre.

In august 2007, Hype Studio presented the project to Fifa, accrediting Beira-Rio to be the stadium in Porto Alegre to host the 2014 World Cup. After the confirmation by CBF that the renewal project met Fifa’s requirements, the architects Fernando Balvedi, Gabriel Garcia and Mauricio Santos, project authors, spent the months of September and October making technical visits to European stadiums, with special attention to the German stadiums that hosted 2006 World Cup, that took place the year before in Germany. In November the stadium project was fully adjusted and refined, meeting the requirements of Fifa’s specifications with specific S. C. Internacional needs. Finally, on the 17th of December of 2007, the project was filed for building permit in Porto Alegre’s City Hall.

During the first semester of 2008, the project continued being developed by Hype Studio Architecture. On that year’s second semester, Santini e Rocha and Simon Engineering were hired by S. C. Internacional to continue with the executive project’s development together with Hype Studio. Along the year of 2009, already with the confirmation of Porto Alegre as one of the host cities of the 2014 World Cup, the plan of how the stadium would work on the month of the event began to be developed under Fifa’s Organizer Local Committee supervision. In july of 2010, S. C. Internacional started the work with its own resources. In early 2011 the club decided no longer self-finance the works, searching for a big contractor company’s partnership to continue the works at Beira-Rio. The contractor Andrade Gutierrez SA presented as a partner and, after a contract negotiation period, took over the resuming of the works in the beginning of 2012. The projected conclusion of the works is December 2013.