Intended to contribute to Seoul’s initiative of becoming one of
world’s top five cities in innovative urban design, this project for a
stadium would be located near No-Eul Park is Seoul, serving the local
colleges, high schools and adjacent communities. It’s dynamic form and tectonic qualities communicate both to the natural surroundings and the need for attractive and versatile public spaces.
The entrance is situated at the center of the structure, bringing visitors to the tessellated secondary structure. Shell-like
structures help distributing the tension through the varied curved type
and contain a gradient cavity that screens sunlight for the stadium
audience. Triangulated panelization follows the building’s curvature,
structuring its body and enhancing the dynamic effects of the structural
shells. Stressing the conceptual importance of "poly-valiant qualities
of the building”, the architect Michael Arellanes states:
”Poly-Valiant structures are tectonics with multi-performance
properties that address engineering, aesthetics, technology, surfaces,
space, and component based typologies. The urban stadium attempts to
contain sleek elements and lines like that of high performance sports
cars. This gives the stadium valiancy in aerodynamic formal bodies and
operational function. The aesthetic formalizes an exploding force that
compounds into a structural shell, and then stretches across in a
simple-elegant curve. It expresses the varied stages of force.”
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