From Dezeen this morning: RT @thefabricpress @Dezeen call it a “cats cradle sports arena” http://bit.ly/3iG8Im It resembles what Obelix left of a boar roast…
But check out the multifunctional brief:
### Dezeen November 13th, 2009
Arena Zagreb by UPI-2M
By Rose Etherington
Arena Zagreb in Croatia by architects UPI-2M was awarded Structural Design of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona last week.
Arena Zagreb is a multifunctional indoor hall with the footprint of 90340 sq m. It is located in the southwestern part of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, at one of the main city entrances. Also it lies opposite the popular Zagreb recreation and sports centre Jarun. Arena Zagreb has become a new city emblem on one of its main axes, offering to the citizens a large palette of amusement events.
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Nice 3d swivel (notice all the coach parking):
This video shows the look of Zagreb Arena, the new arena finished in November 2008, a few months before the World Handball Championship in Croatia 2009. The arena is multifunctional, for many sports such as boxing, handball, volleyball, basketball, table tenis, athletics etc. Minimum capacity is 10,000 seats for athletics competitions, and maximum with over 25,000 seats for concerts. For handball matches during the world championship capacity will be around 16,000 seats. -metlazgb 20 July 2007
This shows Arena Zagreb, the building of it, step by step, from the lowest underground parts until the end. -metlazgb 28 November 2008
Post by Elizabeth Kerr
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November 16, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Following on from the All Blacks visit to Italy over the weekend, I thought I might share my experiences on the stadium they played in. I was fortunate enough to attend San Siro stadium during a sell-out football match. I was intrigued, and a little worried, about exactly how 80,000 people could be moved around. As it turned out, the logistics planning of this stadium and its location, deserves special recognition in my opinion.
San Siro stadium is sited between 2 major roads leading to and from the city. So it effectively has two fronts, splitting the crowd into 40,000 for each entrance. There were no shops, stalls, or food courts within the stadium complex. If you want to buy snacks or souvenirs, then you do so from the streetside stalls set up on the way to the stadium. So there is nothing to inhibit the flow of people once they get to the stadium.
In front of each entrance is a large open concrete square, about 100m square. That’s where people gather. Outer gates open every 30 seconds to let a couple of hundred people through each gate from the square into the stadium area and ticket entrance gates themselves. No buying tickets at the stadium, it’s automated gates activated by your pre-purchased ticket. Again, nothing to bottleneck the flow.
San Siro stadium has 3 levels. Once through the inner gates, you are immediately confronted by 3 tracks running around the outside of the stadium. If your ticket is for the ground level, you take the inner track, and walk around until you reach the opening in the stadium corresponding to the section number on your ticket. The openings are about 20m apart, so you are now no more than 10m from your seat.
If your seat is located on the second level, you start on the second track and walk around until you reach the staircase that has your section number painted on it.
If you are way up on the third level, then you take the third, or outer, track around the stadium. Access to the upper level is via four 30m diameter concrete spiral staircase towers, located in each corner of the stadium.
Each seat is uniquely numbered with the Section Number, Row Number, and Seat Number. The seat located at Section 120, Row 10, Seat 3 is marked 120-10-3. So no confusion wondering if you are in the right part. It matches your ticket exactly.
Leaving the stadium is exactly the same process, with 40,000 people only coming together again once they have left the stadium area. And 80,000 generally never coming together. It was hard to say exactly, but I would guess that the whole stadium was emptied in under 15 minutes once the game had finished. Italians are not noted for efficiency and organisation, but this one they have gotten right. A lesson in how to simplify a complicated process by breaking it down into bite sized chunks.
Of course it did fall apart somewhat when 80,000 people all reached the subway station at the same time. But that’s a story for another day.
November 16, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Just a great account, Phil.
Yeah, TV coverage of the game clearly showed the “concrete spiral staircase towers, located in each corner of the stadium”. From memory, somewhere in the piles of What if? I think I gave Flickr links to pics.
I’ll have a search or start again.
Found! San Siro stadium exteriors and interiors
http://dunedinstadium.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/city-parking-issues-not-abating/#comment-8914