1985年，悉尼板球和體育運動場托拉斯決定興建一座40 000人全座席的足球場，用于1988年悉尼市200周年紀念。這座體育場將不僅是澳大利亞主要的橄欖球和足球賽場，也將是一座集合了訓(xùn)練設(shè)施、游泳池、網(wǎng)球場和停車場的綜合體育設(shè)施。

設(shè)計組在開始時決定觀眾席采用碗形，帶有環(huán)形屋面。體育場屋面的形狀綜合考慮了南北向的坡度，適當減少了南北立面的體量，以與鄰近的居住區(qū)相協(xié)調(diào)，并在足球場中場線放置了主觀眾席。

盡管場地為四邊形，但體育場采用了帶有連續(xù)波浪屋面的環(huán)形設(shè)計，沿著環(huán)形屋頂設(shè)有照明器具。由于主觀眾席處于中場線，兩端屋面可以降低。這樣的處理方法不但可以降低建筑尺度，也可以減少射到周邊地區(qū)的燈光，從結(jié)構(gòu)上講，屋面的曲線結(jié)構(gòu)更為高效。此外，曲線屋面使體育場更加引人注目。

這座體育館具有強烈的雕塑感。它的形狀與其功能密切配合，保持了結(jié)構(gòu)與細部特點。 （水潤宇譯）

n 1985, the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust took the decision to develop a 40,000 capacity all seated football stadium for the City of Sydney to be completed for Australia‘s Bicentennial in 1988.The Trust envisaged the Stadium not only as the premier playing venue for rugby and soccer in Australia, but as an integrated and coordinated sports facility comprising sports training and practice, swimming pool, tennis courts and car parking.It was decided at the outset by the design team that the seating would be of a bowl form with a continuous roof around the stadium. Determining the form of the stadium were a combination of planning considerations including the orientation of the pitch in a north south direction, the need to reduce the massing of the building on the north and south elevation to accommodate the adjacent residential areas and the need to provide the majority of the seating at the football halfway line.As a result, although a rectangular field, the stadium is adapted to a circular perimeter with a continuous curving roof containing lighting around its circumference.With the majority of people seated at centre field, the roof height is reducible at either end.As well as serving to reduce the scale of the building, and with circumference lighting reducing spill onto the surrounding neighborhood, structurally, the warping of the roof allows for a more efficient structure.Additionally, the form of the roof creates for the stadium its highly recognisable and exciting form.In terms of its expression and language, the Stadium is probably the most sculptural form yet produced by the practice.It is a form that immediately suggests its function, which is a theatre for performance.It‘s ring of taut steel masts and cables, and its bands of exposed concrete have a quality intended to convey the impression of gladiatorial combat.In the scope of Cox‘s work, it remains true to his basic tenants in its revelation of structure and detail, its fitness for purpose and its sense of place.

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