Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
- EC Bahia
- EC Vitória
- FIFA Confederations Cup 2013
- Football World Cup 2014
- Summer Olympic Games in 2016 (Football )
The Arena Fonte Nova, officially Complexo Esportivo Cultural professor Octávio Mangabeira is a football stadium in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and can accommodate 55,000 spectators. It stands on the bottom of the Estádio Fonte Nova, which was demolished in 2010 for new construction. The naming rights for the new stadium the brewery Itaipava 2013-2023 has secured. Therefore is the complete name Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova.
The German architectural firm Schulitz Partner is responsible for the design, in collaboration with the engineering firm Setepla (São Paulo).
Construction and Architecture
The design combines the tradition of the former stadium with a modern new stadium and an innovative new roof construction. On the west side of the characteristics of the embossed by the hillside stadium is retained, with new rooms are created with the FIFA requirements. While parts of the present grandstand be reused in the north and east, serve new areas for a soccer museum and a convention center. In the south, the characteristic opening retained to south lake to ensure good ventilation of the stadium.
The roof construction a closed ring structure as has been the World Cup stadium in Hanover ( AWD Arena ) in collaboration with RFR Stuttgart developed ( Speichenradprinzip ). Critical to the extremely materialminimierte roof, the geometry of the roof and the supporting rope rings around the different functional requirements ( sight lines, sun protection, drainage. Windage, static height ) is to meet in an optimum manner. The peculiarity of the Fonte Nova solution is arranged between the rope rings roof membrane is penetrated by relatively high air supports. The weight is only 45 kg / m².
Following the recommendation of the FIFA stadium in Salvador is certified to LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Among other things, this water consumption is reduced by the use of rainwater, reused the broken concrete stadium, optimized energy consumption of the stadium, organized construction process sustainable and rated the primary energy consumption of the individual materials.
The horseshoe shape of the stadium not only allows good ventilation, but also allows year-round use of the stadium for a variety of events: During the football season is in the open area of the southern opening of the possible setting up and dismantling a stage for concerts and theater, so that concerts can ever take place regardless of the football season. The restaurant hovering over the southern opening can be used daily.
History
In May, 2013, just three weeks before the start of the Confederations Cup, crack after heavy rains up a small part of the roof and some parts fell from the structure down.
The Arena Fonte Nova was the venue of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 and will be the venue for the Football World Cup 2014 and the football competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.