Beti Boop Stadium for Real Betis Balompié
Seville, Spain
The program consisted in designing a large stadium with capacity for 75,000 spectators on a relatively small site in Seville, in an outlying garden city area. These conditions made us fear a considerable contrast of scales that could generate strong tensions in a very small, specific spot.
We started the project with the purpose of reducing these tensions. To this end, we concentrated the services in the area facing the square, freeing up the rest of the stadium from them.
Always a play of contrasts: on one hand, the stadium becomes a public building that presides the square, on the other, it is a simple structure that functions as an ombrière that accompanies passer-bys.
A large arch supports the cables that hold the roof in the area of the stands. The rest of the stands are also covered with cables that hang from another stay cable.
The design aims to make the stadium lighter, searching for maximum transparency and avoiding the front views that only occur in the square area.
Our intention was to transform the large stadium into a building at the scale of the square and into a large ombrière for the city.
Project data
Year
1997
Status
Competition
Client
Private – Real Betis Balompié
Team
Main Architect: Carme Pinós
Architects: Juan Antonio Andreu, Rafael Balaguer, Peco Mulet, Cristian Pons, Pep Ripoll, Juan Miguel Tizón
Photography
Duccio Malagamba