Sports Stadium

This project was a part of the Digital Skills Workshop. The purpose of this assignment was to introduce parametric modeling and the use of the Grasshopper scripting platform as a design tool at various scales and contexts.

Aerial View

The design approach was divided into three steps: seating arrangement, truss profile, and roof. For this project, the overall stadium design was inspired by the Bejing National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by architect Frank Gehry. A responsive envelope was created assuming building-integrated PV panels along with metal panels, which would change their rotation angle based on the location of the sun.

The structural framework which can change based on seating arrangement

Responsive envelope

A conceptual represenation of rotating building-integrated PVs and metal panels of the responsive envelope based on the sun path