Braga Municipal Stadium
Secil - Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento, S.A. has awarded the Secil Architecture Award 2004 to Braga Municipal Stadium, designed by architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Braga (Portugal)
Architecture
More about Braga Municipal Stadium
The Braga Municipal Stadium was implanted in the Dume Sports Park, on the northern slope of Monte Castro. Our implantation is the consequence of not having to make a "dam" to the water line that naturally runs through the valley. The alternative was to move it to the west, adjusting it to the hillside, like a Roman amphitheatre.
Today football is a spectacle, just like cinema, theatre and television, hence the option of making just two stands. Today nobody can stand watching a Peter Handke play in "zoom" behind the goals.
The roof was initially conceived as a long continuous canopy (see Siza /Expo), but due to constraints and travel, we chose to use the Inca bridges in Peru as a reference.
With a height of 40 metres, the stadium will be attached to two squares with the same height difference. In this way, the building can serve as an "anchor" for the organisation of the territory in the emerging expansion of the city to the North. It was the same twenty years ago to the South in the Carandá Market. Today, without romanticism, I am amputating it so that it does not die of gangrene.
| Client: | Braga City Council |
| Architectural Project Dates: | January 2000 |
| Construction Dates: | January 2002 / December 2003 |
| Address: | Monte Crasto, Parque Norte, Braga |
| Architecture Project: | Souto Moura – Arquitectos, Lda. |
| General Project: | Eduardo Souto de Moura, Carlo Nozza, Ricardo Merí, Enrique Penichet, Atsushi Hoshima, Diego Setien, Carmo Correia, Sérgio Koch, Joaquim Portela, Luisa Rosas, Jorge Domingues, Adriano Pimenta, Ricardo Rosa Santos, Diogo Guimarães, José Carlos Mariano, João Queiroz e Lima, Tiago Coelho |
| Landscaping: | Daniel Monteiro |
| Consultants: | Arup Associated – Dipesh Patel (Stadium revise) |
| Consultancies - mediation: | Arq. Manuel Somoza |
| Engineering: | AFAssociados – Projectos de Engenharia, SA |
| Coordination: | Rui Furtado |
| Structures: | Rui Furtado, Carlos Quinaz, Renato Bastos, Pedro Moas, Rui Oliveira, Rodrigo Andrade e Castro, Pedro Pacheco, Miguel Paula Rocha, António André, João Dores, Sérgio Vale, Nuno Neves, Rafael Gonçalves, Andreia Delfim, Miguel Braga, João Coutinho, António Monteiro |
| Hydraulic Inst.: | Maria Elisa Parente, Joana Neves |
| Electrical Inst.: | António José Rodrigues Gomes, António Ferreira, Luís Fernandes (RGA) |
| Mechanical Inst.: | José Silva Teixeira, Tiago Fernandes (RGA) |
| Safety | Christian Aoustin (Gerisco) |
| Excavation: | Estevão Santana, João Burmester |
| Street works and infrastructures | Estevão Santana, João Burmester |
| Consultants: | António Silva Cardoso (Geotecnia), Cêgê (Geotecnia), Ove Arup & Partners – Andrew Alisop / Andrew Minson (Estudo do Vento), RWDI – Mark Hunter / Michael Soligo (Ensaios em modelo rígido), DMI – Danish Maritim Institut – Aage Damsghaard (Ensaios em modelo aeroelástico), Instituto Construção da FEUP – Elsa Caetano (Dinâmica) |
| Final cable project: | Tensoteci – Massimo Marini, Massimo Majowietcki |
| Roof: | Soares da Costa, S.A. – Luís Afonso, Diogo Santos |
| Supervision: | Braga City Hall - DOMSU - Manuel Afonso Basto. Carlos Amaral, Luís Almeida, Filipe Vaz, Eduardo Leite, Paula Pereira, Cidália Rodrigues, Márcia Rodrigues, J. Rodrigues |
| General excavation: | Aurélio Martins Sobreiro, Adérito Faneca |
| Containment: | ACE – Assoc. / Tecnasol – Mário Duarte, João Falcão |
| Exteriors: | ACE – Assoc. / Soares da Costa, S.A. – Lionel Correia, Jorge Oliveira, Mário Duarte, Mário Pereira, Santos Costa |
