The inspiration of my stadium were tensile structures to invoke a light and airy design. The design thinking was initiated by sketchy a key section of the stadium’s form; in this case it was of an abstraction of a connected steel truss column and beam The form of the column was tilted to follow the form of the stadium stands and bolstered to support the column and beam and suspension cable. The concept of the stadium roof was a radial grid of panels that could open and close based on the sun’s location. The idea is that grid spaces closer to the sun would close to provide shade and the furthest would open to provide indirect light to enter the stadium. Throughout the day, the stadium would be well shaded but optimally lit.

The parametric framework of the key section initiated with curves modeled in Rhino. These curves would then be parametrically subdivided, reordered, and connected to represent the truss’s cross-bracing elements. These subdivisions also informed the location of the suspension cable. The roof utilizes an attractor point script that calculates the distance between each grid point and the (sun) attractor point. These calculations are parametrized and to a domain where the closer grid points would have a closed aperture and the furthest would open.