The designer that the barça could hire for the new camp nou

The designer that dreams with giving new life to the Camp Nou

The designer that dreams with giving new life to the Camp Nou

Published:29/12/2015 - 12:40h

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Bjarke Ingels Already has designed to his 41 years act imponentes like the campus of Google and the new World Trade Center of New York. It lived in Barcelona a year and half, visits the Catalan city usually and dreams with designing some day the new Camp Nou of the Barça

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The architect that dreams with designing some day the infrastructure of the new Camp Nou, Bjarke Ingels, has kept an extensive interview with "MD" in which it has revealed, between other things, that is very joined to the city of Barcelona -lived there and the visit often- and therefore knows to perfection all the architectural currents, artistic and aesthetic of the Catalan capital. "I lived in Barcelona between 1996 and 1997, during an important formative period of my life, like architect and also like person. Barcelona provides the perfect combination of local and global perspective, two crucial elements for the citizen of nowadays and especially for an architect (...). Besides, I visit Barcelona several times to the year from 1997, and follow me feeling as home".

"If it awarded us the honour to rejuvenate the Camp Nou, would not doubt in opening an office in the city. The quality of life here is impressive and the level of the architecture in Catalonia, so much to professional level like formative, is one of the more heights of the world. The Nou Camp Nou would be the definite step to establish a permanent presence in the city", adds. Bjarne Ingels Knows at first hand the philosophy of the FC Barcelona and also the magic that breathes in his sanctuary.

"For the 11º anniversary of my brother my family came to visit me in Barcelona and carried it to a party of the Barça dressed completely with the uniform of Ronaldo. Ronaldo marked two goals and my brother lived the best birthday of his life! The Camp Nou is a temple of the football: the scale, the silhouette, the skeleton? The atmosphere of a party it asemeja to the Coliseo, is important for the renewal that keep the authenticity and the original legacy of the stadium", remembers.

"Barcelona is one of the most attractive cities of the world so much urbanística like arquitectónicamente and the Camp Nou is a new opportunity to go back to use the sport to improve the public space of the city. The Camp Nou as we see it today is a milestone in sportive architecture. In spite of his obvious imperfections, has a beautiful skeleton that has to be understood and improved. The shield of the Barça has had few changes from 1909, what shows a confidence in the institution that few marks in the world can champion, but has gone adapting slightly to each moment. Of the same way, pretend to preserve the identity of the architecture of Mitjans adding a new chapter to the narrative of the FC Barcelona and the Camp Nou".

In this sense, Ingels already has defined his project of structuring of the new Camp Nou. "Our main inspiration is the idea that the Barça is more than a club, is a community, therefore, the Camp Nou has to be more than a stadium, has to be a neighbourhood, a space of meeting. The Segona Graderia will be the vertebral column of the renewal, so the transformation will centre the first and third rings. A halo of pioneering and innovative architecture around a core with the original character. The Nou Camp Nou will be adapted to optimise the assistance of thousands of fans in the days of party, guaranteeing the enjoy to level of seen, sound, privacy and community".

"But also it will be designed to connect with the rest of the neighbourhood of Them Corts, the Universitat and The Maternitat. If the Camp Nou today presents a bit like an obstacle to the daily life of the neighbours colindantes, the Nou Camp Nou of morning will be the park, square and focus of life of the city that surrounds it". In this coyuntura, with a budget of 400 million euros, Bjarke Ingels ensures that they will not be able to begin of zero. "The budget brings achieve the requirement that we can not begin from zero, do not go to delete at all that it already work".

"This gives us an only opportunity to design a stadium with a historical heart of the cual surface new elements, almost like new meat for an ancient skeleton. As the Holy Family was not built of once -being built-, part of the magic resides in a building whose parts have been completed in different moments, with different technical and different sensitivities... But with a unificadora vision holística that defines it. Our challenge for the Camp Nou has been to take the legacy of Mitjans and formulate a vision that carry to the stadium a step more advance on the way to turn into the perfect stage for the best club of the world and in a full public space of life for the residents of the neighbourhood".

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