MFC deKazerne

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Volumetric proposal with only opaque roof elements that open and close in rings

Interior view of the stadium with open and closed pattern in rings

Shape efficiency: volume in relation to surface perimeter

Shape efficiency: rounded volume versus square volumes

Shape efficiency: rounded section versus squared section

Shape efficiency combined figures

Volumetric proposal with transparent / opaque pattern in the roof elements

Interior view of stadium with transparent / opaque roof pattern

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Facts

Year: 2013

Typology: Cultural, Experience

City: Venlo

Country: Netherlands

Client: Venlo Municipality, MFC deKazerne

Budget: N/A

Floor area: N/A

Team:

Lead designers: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd
Project architect: Gijs Joosen
Design team: Pieter Schreurs

Partners:

Arcadis

Tag That Body: Architecture, Point cloud, Swarm behavior

Shape That Body: CNC manufacturing, Collaborative, Component, Diagrid, File to factory, Generative, Multi-agent, Nonstandard, Parametric, Scripting, Mass customization

Move That Body: Actuators, Adaptive, Building in motion, Realtime behavior, Sensor data

Evolve That Body: Complex, Distributed, Rule based

Art: Powerlines

www.arcadis.nl

On the westbank of the Maas river in Venlo, the Venlo municipality and MFC deKazerne projected a large scale multifunctional center for bussiness opportunities, art, culture, education and sports.The heart of this center is an artificial turf soccer field, with seating for 15,000 people. The main user of this accommodation will be the VVV Venlo soccer club.

ONL and ARCADIS were commissioned to do a feasibility study to cover this accommodation with a movable roof structure. The roof structure is preferably open during soccer matches, but needs to be closed and darkened during other events. In order to make a economically feasible solution, ONL and ARCADIS, proposed an integrated parametric approach to the stadium and roof design.

By creating an efficient shape for the stadium and the roof a 20% reduction of exterior surface is possible, while maintaining the same internal volume and seating capacity for the stadium. Next to that it is possible to reduce the amount of steel in the load-bearing structure by about 60%, by using a dense spatial grid structure instead of a traditional sparse grid-structure to make the large spans of the stadium. By using a parametric design system it is possible to maximize these reduction by the use of computer-aided optimization techniques.

With the application of a dense grid for the main load-bearing structure it becomes possible to synchronize facade and roof panels and load-bearing structure, making a
secondary structure redundant. A strategy typical for the ONL design approach. When a dense grid of panels is used to cover the roof of the stadium, each of these elements could be moved individually. This enables the possibility create a distributed system of movable panels in the roof, that can be controlled individually, to accommodate any possible configuration of open and closed.