Dylan Bettencourt
Stadium 974 is the world’s first stadium that can be dismantled and reassembled anywhere in the world.
It will be used during this year’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The stadium was built using recycled shipping containers and has a capacity of 40,000.
The idea for the stadium was conceived by Fenwick Iribarren Architects, from Madrid, Spain, with sustainability being the main design concept.
“We really felt that it wasn’t really necessary for Qatar to have this eighth stadium after the World Cup,” Mark Fenwick, one of the architectural partners said.
“So, we decided to take a very radical strategy, which was to see if we can actually design the stadium which is not only dismantle-able, but was also transportable, and re-mountable in another country, either as a full stadium, or as different pieces which could be put together as a variable number of sports buildings.”
The host nation said the stadium will be donated to under-developed countries following the conclusion of the World Cup.
The stadium has already been tested during the FIFA Arab Cup, which was held in the final two months of last year.
“It is the ultimate legacy achievement, which basically is that the stadium will be dismantled, will be put into the shipping containers and they will be taken on a ship, and they can be taken to another country and remounted and what would be fantastic,” Fenwick added.
The 2022 World Cup is set to begin on 21 November and conclude on 18 December. Extreme heat conditions in the country forced organisers to reschedule the event which is usually held in the June-July months.
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