Building Housing in World Cup Stadiums
By Penny on Jul 17, 2014
Now that the 2014 Brazil World Cup games are over, ambitious architects “1week1project” have proposed an idea to transform 12 venues into fabulous new housing hotspots!
1week1project is the product of two innovative architects, Axel de Stampa and Sylvain Macaux, who have gained much of their experience in Paris and Santiago, Chile. Taking on the challenge to produce one “spontaneous architecture” project every week, they are now on week 29. This project, called “Casa Futebol” is an incredible way to turn these masterfully designed stadiums into much needed homes for locals. The renderings provide detailed perspectives of what the (what would be) former stadiums after they’ve been uniquely customized to accommodate housing units of about 105 square metres.
Via 1week1project.org
Just like their other projects, Casa Futebol aims to improve residential living spaces in places suffering from shortages. “No matter what the space, whether it be urban, rural or digital, there are always new possibilities it can offer, waiting to be borne out: to turn it into a leisure space, to bring out dramatic emotions, to place the public back at the center of the design, and endless others. It’s up to us to give it a new identity and reveal the place for what it is,” said the architects.
Via 1week1project.org
In the plans, the architects suggest that the project could be facilitated by putting ticket revenue toward replacing part of the stands with prefabricated units or by building structures that will support them on the external facade of the venues. Since the games are over, Brazil will have to find a way to repurpose the structures built to host the events anyway, but concerns over what will be the most cost effective solution are causing a small delay. Casa Futebol seems like a socially conscious strategy that has the potential to preserve the stadiums, but whether this proposal will be selected over other proposals remains unknown.
Surely a few of these stadiums will be used post-games, but what about the ones that won’t be? Is this a realistic idea?
