Million Seater Stadium

Contract Value

Unlimited

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Completion

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Client

The Million Seater Stadium

Contract

Virtual

Architects - Reiach and Hall Architects

Awards

Scottish Design Awards Proposed Building 2018

The Million Seater Stadium is the brainchild of Mel Young, president and co-founder of the Homeless World Cup, Chair of sportscotland and co-founder of the Big Issue Magazine. The Stadium will be a virtual venue that will act as a hub for football related charity projects that fight homelessness across the world. Fans will gather in the Stadium to watch live events, chat, enter competitions and buy exclusive merchandise. All profits raised by the Stadium will fund six different international charity projects that fight homelessness through football.

Although the stadium occupies a virtual world, it needs to have a look and feel that of a real stadium, terraces, tiers, gangways, and concourses, seats and sightlines. The design process started by looking at iconic stadiums; La Bombonera, Estádio do Maracanã, Camp Nou, Estadio Azteca, San Siro, each of which hold less than 1/10th of our stadium, and also looking at wider influences such as open cast mineral mines, Étienne-Louis Boullée’s epic visionary designs, the geometry of hurricanes and the rings of Saturn. Being virtual, the stadium will always be unencumbered by gravity and will frequently travel the world to places where it is most needed. Other influences in the evolution of its design have been gyroscopes, science fiction books by James Blish and Philip Reeve and of course visionary post-revolutionary Russian architecture.

The seats are pushed to the steepest possible rake, in seven gigantic tiers. A golden ramp wraps around the stadium, connected the concourses back to the ground. Golden rings circulate around the top of the stadium forming its roof and further viewing areas. A seating plan has been developed showing the million supporters divided into 8000 seating blocks of 125 each coloured according to the football fans allegiances to particular clubs. We scoured social media and the internet to find clubs from across the world that are clearly using the power of football for social good.

The project is in its early stages, gathering momentum, gaining supporters from the world of football, entertainment and the business community. The project has an ambitious global vision to ‘End Homelessness’.

The goal is scalable - across the world we aim to make an impact on one person, one street, one town, one country in a parallel timeline, harnessing the passion and the power of football and its billions of fans to do good.