
Inspired by the desert landscape, the design of Rock Stadium by MZ Architects celebrates the game it hosts as much as it celebrates the site in which it lays. Sunken 200,000sqm into the cooler depth of the desert sand, the Rock Stadium, like a hidden treasure, presents itself to the visitor as a series of sharply inclined planes emerging from the ground. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Recognizing the powerful language of its surrounding and intelligently approaching the issue of scale and the intermittent use of the stadium architecture, the project turns the Jebel Hafeet rocky mountain into one of its main features. The design merges architecture and landscape, blurring the boundaries of the built and the natural and creating a space that allows the visitor to interact with the desert landscape as much as with the stadium activity.
