Toyota City Stadium |
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Aichi, Japan Design/Construction 1997-2001 Building area：40734.29m² Total floor area：105830.46m² steel + reinfored concrete 2 basements + 4 stories Toyota Stadium was planned adjacent to the Toyota Bridge in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of municipalization of the City of Toyota. The Toyota Bridge is a part of the main pedestrian-based road system of the city. This super-modern bridge attaches an importance to pedestrians and not to cars, by giving pedestrians more space than the roadway, and it also provides movable stairs giving direct access to the waterfront. In addition, the bridge provides a direct pedestrian access to the plaza of the stadium for large numbers of people when soccer games or any other events are held. The Toyota Stadium was originally designed to accommodate 60,000 spectators as it was chosen to be one of the fifteen cities for the Japan World-Cup Semi-Final Game. Later as Japan and South Korea cosponsored the World-Cup, the possible venues were reduced to ten cities, Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture was left out of the selection, despite the fact that it has the third largest population density. As a result, the design that was already in process, was fundamentally reviewed to accommodate a number of people reduced down to 45,000. In order to enable a multifunctional usage of the facility, a movable roof became an additional condition of the new design. The site area is almost half the size of the Oita Stadium, and there is a river embankment and an irrigation ditch for preservation in the surroundings. With these constraints, it might be almost impossible to accommodate 45,000 spectator's stadium, however, it is built within a full limitation of the site up to the measurement of millimeters. |
