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Municipal Stadium, Braga
Eduardo Souto de Moura
TYPOLOGIES
Sport Stadium
DATE
2000 - 2003
CITY
Braga
COUNTRY
Portugal
PHOTOGRAPHER
Christian Richters
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Built for the football Eurocup held in Portugal in 2004, the Municipal Stadium of Braga is located on the
precipitous terrain of an old limestone quarry on the northern side of Monte Castro. The project site, which
initially was going to be an unappealing plot by the river valley, was moved in order to benefit from this unique
context, which allowed offering a spectacular natural environment for sports events while promoting the
recovery of a marginal area of the city, where the stadium goes up as a new landmark for future extensions of
the urban fabric.
Its organizational scheme is determined by two tribunes which face one another: one is carved into the rock
and the other is held by sixteen concrete ribs. Between both there is a canopy that was initially devised as a
continuous concrete slab – similar to the Portuguese Pavilion carried out by Álvaro Siza for Expo 98 in Lisbon
–, but was finally executed with a metallic construction system inspired by the suspended bridges of
indigenous Peru. The canopy, which is interrupted in the field, rounds its edges off with rows of spotlights and
drainpipes for water, which is poured from the cliff through gargoyles into two large sculptural cantilevered
canals. Behind the goals there are no stands, letting the natural topography become the protagonist during
the football matches.
The stadium is accessible from a square located in front of the freestanding tribune. To reach the tribune that
is carved into the rock, spectators must cross a hypostyle space, with columns of funnel-shaped capitals, that
extends beneath the field. On the cliff, forty meters higher, is another plaza with VIP parking and restricted
access to boxes and press areas. In the freestanding tribune, the circulation itineraries develop between the
large circles that pierce the rhythmic sequence of concrete ribs, and that permit horizontal circulation and
make the structure lighter. The stairs are placed between those circles following a diagonal ascending
movement that reproduces the profile of the ribs; in the opposite stands, in contrast, they pile up on the
facade just a few meters from the rock. This, precisely, is the contrast between the geometry of the concrete
structure on the one hand, and the roughness of the granite quarry on the other, which endows the building
with its attractive monumentality.
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