King Fahd Stadium Implementation
The need to renovate King Fahd Stadium must necessarily consider the architectural high quality of the existing building.
The laid out series of rib vaults covering the stadium have a high iconographical value and already are benchmark for Riyadh’s urban landscape.
Our proposal starts from the idea of solving the new fun ctional requirements introducing shapes and volumes that not only are combined/integrated into the existing architec ture but enhance the value of the Stadium itself.
The most important intervention is certainly building cove red parking places.
The idea is to place a artificial hill against the base on which the Stadium stands today in order for it to function as a for mal joint between the countryside and the concourse that surrounds the entire building with its circular sloping surface.In this way passing from one level to the other is smoother and the vaults seem to rise directly from the ground without looking detached from it, making it look almost unrelated to it as it seems today.
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