Barcelona, Spain
With a $1,5 billion budget, b720 Architects, IDOM, and Nikken Sekkei have undertaken the reform and expansion project for Camp Nou, which is part of the Espai Barça operation carried out by FC Barcelona to rearrange and improve the environment of the facilities and services for members.
The New Barça Stadium has recently been awarded a 2023 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The new stadium increases the capacity to approximately 105,000 spectators, completely covering the capacity with a large roof that will protect from the weather and provide visual comfort, improving interior sound.
The new cantilevers added at various levels of the stadium configure perimeter circulation rings where the concessions and toilets will be located, as well as the rest of the services necessary for the proper functioning of the stadium, forming an open façade where the members and fans will be the protagonists.
The creation of the new vertical cores made up of escalators, lifts, and stairs facilitates access to the stadium while increasing the comfort of movement for the members, allowing quick, easy, and pleasant movement on all levels.
The new stadium will be more accessible, with seats for people with reduced mobility and their companions well located and distributed, better services, and signage for spectators with hearing and visual deficiencies.
The project includes the Barça Museum and the Barça Botiga as main complementary pieces to the operation of the Stadium, improving the experience both for spectators on match days and for visitors to the Stadium itself on non-match days.
Project: Barça Stadium: Futur Camp Nou
Architects: b720 Fermin Vàzquez Architectos, IDOM
Lead Architects: Fermin Vàzquez, César Azcárate and Diego Rodríguez
Associate Architects: Nikken Sekkei Ltd
Associate Architect Team: Murao Tadahiko
Client: Futbol Club Barcelona
Photographers: Graph Visual Studio, Aesthetica Studio
