Degli Esposti Architetti S.r.l.

The white stadium is shaped as a rounded, layered volume with deep horizontal cornices and an almost continuous glazed base, appearing as an isolated object within a woodland clearing. A raised podium surrounds the building and separates public approaches from service access at ground level. In the survey area, a family of similarly moulded white sports buildings is distributed across an “ecological urban platform” of parks, plazas and green corridors, while a tall tower marks the new Borongaj transit hub. In the third round, the jury eliminated projects that were well developed but generic, hermetic in their relationship with public space, insufficiently resolved in structural terms, financially demanding or unable to express the primary programme clearly. A large proportion of the proposals offered a well-articulated but insufficiently specific response to the site and its legacy. A project that retained parts of the existing structure was considered particularly interesting, but this approach was not feasible because the structure had to be demolished due to identified structural deficiencies.