National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland by GMP Architects

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In 2012, Poland and Ukraine will be hosting the UEFA European Football Championship. For the occasion, a new national stadium will be built in Warsaw on the existing but crumbling rubble-built Dziesieciolecia Stadium abandoned for sports uses in 1988. The stadium is in Skaryszewski Park east of the city center on the bank of the Vistula, and will form the heart of a new sports park. The construction of the stadium is divided systematically into two. The stand consists of prefabricated concrete parts. Above this is a steel wire net roof with a textile membrane hung on freestanding steel supports with inclined tie rods.

Based beside the Vistula

• Architects: Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects
• Project: National Stadium
• Location: Warsaw, Poland
• Competition: 2007, 1st Prize
• Design: Volkwin Marg and Hubert Nienhoff with Markus Pfisterer
• Project leaders: Markus Pfisterer, Martin Hakiel
• Co-operation: J.S.K Architekci Sp. z o.o.
• Structural design roof and façade: schlaich bergermann und partner, Stuttgart – Knut Göppert with Knut Stockhusen and Lorenz Haspel

Bird‘s view

• General contractors: Konsorcjum Alpine Bau Deutschland AG, Alpine Bau GmbH, Alpine
• Construction: Polska Sp. z o.o., Hydrobudowa Polska S.A. i PBG S.A.
• Services engineering: HTW, Hetzel, Tor-Westen + Partners, Biuro Projektów “DOMAR”
• Lighting design: Lichtvision Berlin, Dr. Karsten Ehling, Dr. Thomas Müller
• Wayfinding system: Wangler & Abele, Munich
• Client: Narodowe Centrum Sportu Sp. z o.o.
• Roof surface area: 69,000 m² total, 10,000 m² retractable
• Seats: 55,000
• VIP seats: 2,600
• Construction period: 2008–2011

Night view with illuminated membrane

The interior roof consists of a mobile membrane sail that folds together above the pitch. The video cube with four screens giving optimal sightlines from all seats is also in the middle of the pitch. The top tier is accessed via twelve archshaped, single-flight staircases. The exterior façade consists of anodized expanded metal that provides another transparent envelope for the actual thermal shell of the interior areas and access steps. The stadium with its exterior façade in the national colors of Poland will stand out in the park as a landmark visible from afar.

View at the playing field

Membrane with the national colors Interior view: roof with tiers

Exterior view with staircase

National Stadium

Model

Plan

Tags: Poland, Warsaw

Category: Stadium

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