SILK LEAF STADIUM BY COOP HIMMELB(L)AU


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“Like a modern acropolis, our concept for the new National Stadium of Japan places the arena on a plinth as a sign in the center of the city. A large plaza is created by the plinth forming the main public entryway.

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The seating tribunes are conceived as landscape elements of the podium, and are covered by a light, shell-like roof touching the ground at only four points.
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The shell is topped by a retractable photo-voltaic glass roof element that separates into two visible wing-shaped leaves opening the stadium to the sky.”
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The competition rules specified the stadium must be able to seat 80,000 people; have a retractable roof, be environmentally efficient and complement the surrounding landscape.
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It must also be up and ready by 2018 to host the Rugby World Cup the following year. The construction budget is 130 billion yen ($1.62 billion).
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Location: Tokio, Japan
Architect: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH
Project Partner: Michael Volk, Luzie Giencke
Design Architect: Alexander Ott
Team: Crystal K.H Tang, Jan Markus Ludwig, Donna Riedel, Jan Rancke, David Neudecker, Sonila Kadillari
Structural Engineering: B + G  Ingenieure: Bollinger • Grohmann • Schneider  ZTGmbH
Cost Consultant: emproc GmbH
Energy Consultant: Bernhard Sommer
Area: 113.000 m2
Year: 2012

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