THE NEW THEATRE OF JUVENTUS

BIGGER STADIUM , EXCLUSIVE STADIUM , HIGH TECH STADIUM, CROWD STADIUM , ALL IN ONE IN THIS STADION

The stadium can host 40.200 onlookers and it’s been drawn up bearing maximum safety standards. The access, with no architectural barriers, will be through four entrances on corners, with wide ramps following the profile of the green hills on which the plant rises, leading to a ring turning around the stadium.
The ring will be a safe place, where entrance tickets can be easily checked out and where service and emergency transport means can stay. Access to steps and to stands will be through the 16 gangways distributed over the various sectors, hanging on spaces that once made the old stadium. At the end of events, for emergency cases, the plant can be emptied in less than 4 minutes.

The project expects to recover the whole Delle Alpi underground part, including the pitch zone. Below the steps there will be the stadium’s service areas and those for the team. The players’ needs, in particular, have been put at first place by planners: accesses to the plant, dressing rooms, relax areas, entrance to the pitch have been thought in minimum details.

In the upper part, with a profile of great lightness and essentiality – peculiar to the stylistic rigour that has always marked the club – will rise the stadium, with steps and boxes: all this put in a unique semicircle profile and without elements detaching from continuity line. The covering of glacis, projected in the Wind Tunnel, will be realized inspiring to airplanes wings: a structure with great lightness, realized with a partly transparent and partly matt membrane, to allow the best view of the pitch, during the day as well as during the night, while guaranteeing sufficient light passing through, to let the grass grow on the pitch. The covering has been projected also to keep the audience sounds inside the plant, making the supporters feel, if possible, and even more closer to the players.

The area dedicated to commercial area is of 34.000 square meters, on which will rise a shops gallery, a shopping center and DIY store. We foresee also 30.000 square meters of public parks, flowerbeds, squares and parking for 4.000 cars.

I would love for the new stadium to be named Stadio Degli Agnelli, but Juventus have already announced it will be named for a sponsor, for about 80million euros over 12 years. The closest seats are 24 feet from the pitch. 24 feet!! And the farthest seats are already closer to the pitch than the closest seats of the Delle Alpi, for comparison. A very intimate atmosphere.

According to Channel4, “behind the stands there will be eight restaurants, 24 bars, 459 Press seats and a ring of green space.” There are rumors they will be developing a hotel either onsite or nearby as well. NO running track, thank god, which supposedly the Italian councils demand in the new stadiums so they can be versatile. But instead of paying millions of euros per year to rent out the Olimpico, we will actually be in a stadium earning US money.

We are the only Serie A club in Italy to own our on stadium, and I’m thrilled to see the project come to fruition. The capacity will be about 42,000, obviously smaller than the Delle Alpi but as anti-Juventini love to point out, it was rarely full anyways (partially due to its awfulness, if you’ve ever been there particularly during the winter you’d know what I mean) and the new stadium’s seats will be much, much closer. Looks terrific. Pictures after the jump.

The project

Juventus’ new stadium was born from a deep team work.
Architects Hernando Suarez (Shesa Office) and Gino Zavanella (Gau office) are the plant planners; Engineers Francesco Ossola and Massimo Majowiecki, are responsible of structural planning, of operating planning and of work direction for structural part.
The team is composed also by Architect Antonio De la Pierre (planning coordination), by Engineer Marco Lazzerini (mechanical plants), by Engineer Renzo Zorzi (electric plants), and by Architects Eloy and Stefano Suarez (architectural planning). Project management is followed by AI Group of Turin, responsible of which is the President, Engineer Paolo Erbetta.
A basic contribution has been given by two very important names of Italian style, collaborating for the first time for giving life to an architectural project: Giugiaro Design and Pininfarina Extra. Juventus addressed to Fabrizio Giugiaro and to Paolo Pininfarina to add to his stadium a strong sign of design, to testify a Turinese excellence recognized all over the world, representing Italian creativity at its best.
Architect Alberto Rolla (Rolla Office) took care of commercial area and of town-planning insertion.

Technical Characteristics

Capacity:40.200 seats
Parking: 4.000 parkings for cars
Total surface: 355.000 square metres
Internal stadium surface: 45.000 square metres
Services areas: 150.000 square metres
Commercial areas: 34.000 square metres
Green areas and squares: 30.000 square metres

Distances of the onlooker from lateral line of the pitch and comparison between the new stadium and current Delle Alpi

Tribuna Ovest 1° raw: 8,85 metres (28 metres)
Trivuna Ovest last raw: 49 metres (68,30 metres)
Tribuna 100 1° raw: 8,85 metres (43,50 metres)
Tribuna 100 last raw: 26,50 metres (49,10 metres)
Tribuna media 1° raw: 33,80 metres (57,50 metres)
Tribuna media, last raw: 49 metres (59,10 metres)
Curves, 1° raw: 8,85 metres (50 metres from the middle of the curve)