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Behold! The future of sustainable sports stadiums.
Sports stadiums have typically been Colosseum-type structures, designed to leave an imposing mark on the landscape. However, as reported in the excellent sustainable design blog Inhabitat, Los Angeles-based NBBJ Architects have turned the stadium concept on its head with this proposed design for China’s new Dalian Shide Stadium.
Also known as the “Garden Stadium”, for its two main exterior walls that are covered in grass and plants, the stadium is designed to open up from underground, a bit like a flower (see diagram below).
In contrast to the traditional cauldron experience, this design attempts to promote harmony with the outside environment and people. Spectators inside the stadium have access to plenty of natural light and views of the surrounding mountains and ocean, while city dwellers can catch glimpses of the on-field action inside.
The stadium will be one of the most sustainable yet built, featuring solar and wind power generation, water recycling and on-site pre-fabrication.
Read more at Inhabitat.
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Stephen Glanville
September 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am
YAY! Great concept! There’s hope for us yet! :- )
Hey! Here’s a well kept secret. Did you know that Canberra (tha capital of ‘Osstraalya’ ), was the first and only, truly ‘Sustainably Designed City’ on the Planet? Told you it was a well kept secret.
Want some evidence? Cop this – http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn60011 (Ref), & you can buy it here – http://www.biblioz.com/search.php (it’s not cheap though).
The lesson, from my point of view, is that with all the best design intentions in the known Universe, if we don’t actually adapt our Business Practices/Infrastructure to harmonise with & augment actual sustainable design, we will just keep duplicating the problems that Canberra and every other city on the planet now faces.
What problems you say? In a nutshell? The State Gov’t (& similar) ‘protection rackets’ that put a strangle-hold on local economic development and resource application, by ‘disincentivising’ local development, by taking all the local money away. For example: Canberra had it’s own gravity-fed Hydro-Electricity System. Canberra had it’s own, designed reed-bed-based storm & waste-water fitlration system built-in. This system would then feed clean/potable water into the central ‘lakes’ (there are several lakes strategically positioned in major urban centres), to supplement urban water supplies.
What happpened? Well, we couldn’t have everyone getting almost free water & power could we? Not when we could be making bucket-loads of money out of it ‘for the greater good’! So in our wisdom, we concreted over the creeks/reed-beds and put in standard & uber-expensive water treatement plants. Naturally, the lakes ended up being toxic blobs…they are getting better now, but at great expense.
Thanks for the pointer James (that’s @jamestuckerman for the Twits – Follow him…he’s a good bloke).
Thanks for the article guys..:- )
Cheers
Stephen G
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World’s most beautiful eco-friendly sports stadiums : Green Resouces
October 29th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
[...] redesigning the old stadium will give birth to a new and improved stadium that will be known as the Garden Stadium. It is designed to emulate a garden with green walls, which filter air, reduce greenhouse gases and [...]