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Due to increased programmatic and security constraints, contemporary stadiums have transformed into urban fortresses. They’ve lost their role as public arenas open to the flow of urban life. This project attempts to recapture a sense of porosity and transparence in order to anchor the stadium within an accessible public realm. The project for the Oujda stadium is conceived as a landscape and not merely a hermetic object, and its site is treated in its entirety as a large public park. The stadium, infrequently used like all stadiums, becomes one element within a greater public complex. The upper bowl of the stadium is suspended above the ground while the lower bowl is integrated into the ground. This creates a void between the two bowls which allows the landscape to pass through the stadium. This space between the two bowls becomes an agora, a public space of perambulation and interaction.
