As we all know, whether it is a stadium or a training ground, functionality has always been focused on, and design is rarely paid attention to.
Even stadiums that invest huge sums of money often only focus on the outer shell, so that most of the stadium designs are left to professional companies like Boples.
But in recent years, more and more famous designers have begun to enter the football circle. Several stadiums carefully designed by Herzog and de Meuron, such as the Bird's Nest and the Allianz Stadium, have made them famous.
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Norman Foster participated in the design of Wembley Stadium.
The design of Leeds United's training base is undoubtedly a first.
The last time Gao Shen had a long talk with Norman Foster, he mentioned his vision for Leeds United's training base. Later, Norman Foster arranged for people to have an in-depth understanding of Leeds United, and even a designer
Moved into Thorpe Arch training base.
And this time, the plan they gave is also very interesting.
The Leeds United site is an irregular rectangle, with a maximum length of 800 meters from north to south and a maximum length of 300 meters from east to west. However, due to roads and residential areas, the entire site is narrowed at both ends.
According to the site conditions, Norman Foster and his assistants carefully designed and came up with an idea, floating islands.
For functional places like training bases, they always start with football fields.
13 standard outdoor football fields are needed to meet the needs of Leeds United from the first team to the youth team. They need to be prioritized and distributed in every corner of the land.
A multi-functional building that brings together club administrative offices, a big data center, a restaurant and an underground parking lot will be the face of this training base, but it is completely different from other traditional buildings.
This three-story low-rise building is divided into two parts by a penetrating atrium, connected by a six-meter-wide floating island. A large number of glass curtain walls create a semi-open office space that is completely integrated with the landscape environment.
As a whole, it strengthens the connection between indoor space and environment.
The top of this building shares the same roof with the atrium, and directly above the atrium is a huge lighting skylight, which introduces natural light into the atrium and indoors, making the entire space extremely bright.
According to Norman Foster, this kind of semi-open office space can effectively improve the quality of the office environment and protect the physical and mental health of employees. At the same time, the atrium and floating islands also have strong social attributes, creating a harmonious atmosphere inside and outside the lake.
space to create a new way of collaboration.
This is connection and integration.
And the design of the floating island is also quite interesting. It is not an ordinary staircase, but an interlocking ring structure. Norman Foster said that it was inspired by the arc in football matches. The steel structure is both a bridge arch and
, and it is the truss. Although it is a hand-drawn drawing, it looks very elegant and has the functions of passage and viewing at the same time.
The atrium extends to the north and south ends of the training base, leading to the training buildings for the first team and the youth team respectively. The three buildings are still connected by longer and larger floating islands, with the longest length of nearly 100 meters.
Seen from a distance, it looks like an arc floating in mid-air.
The space under the floating island is carefully designed and cut into various island-shaped spaces of different sizes and shapes based on the flow of people, views, scenery, functional requirements, etc., such as basketball courts, volleyball courts, small football fields, and beaches.
Various leisure activity spaces such as stadiums, fountain squares, terraces, etc.
They appear to be independent, but in fact they are closely connected to each other.
Through the flow design, Norman Foster and others believe that this place will definitely be welcomed by the first team and youth team players. They can organize various competitions and social activities here to achieve a real first team and youth team.
Team integration.
As for the two training buildings, they are both long and irregular buildings. They were arranged according to the stadium and squeezed in every opportunity. At the same time, various facilities such as medical rooms, gyms, swimming pools, and saunas were designed inside.
And the venue is quite a test of skill.
Among them, the second and third floors of the first-team training building will be the dormitories for employees and players, which are designed as sets of living cabins. Each set even has an independent balcony. The rooms are also very spacious and bright, all designed in accordance with
Five-star hotel standard arrangement.
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It is worth mentioning that the indoor football field is built with a standard football field, and the roof is made of ETFE membrane material. This light-transmitting material can introduce sunlight and block all harmful external factors, even in blizzard weather.
Players can train as usual inside.
The biggest test of an indoor football field is ventilation, which they also designed carefully.
These 14 training venues are all designed with the most advanced floor heating and drainage systems.
In the north of the training base, Norman Foster originally designed a football field for competitions, which was specially provided for youth team players to compete. However, after receiving a call from Lucas, the design team made temporary changes.
design.
They proposed to integrate the stadium directly with the municipal park outside, and design open-air steps in the junction area with the Railway Bridge Park to the north, which can be used as game stands, provide rest for citizens in the park, and encourage more citizens to come and watch Leeds.
United youth team training and competition.
At the same time, this will also be carefully designed into a great park landscape.
In addition to the above, the roof of the stadium will be provided by Leeds United's Chinese sponsors with a complete solar system. The electricity generated by this solar system will be used directly at the training base.
Huawei Company will also participate in the design of various intelligent systems in this training base.
Once completed, this will not only be the most advanced, intelligent, energy-saving and environmentally friendly modern training base in the UK, but also in Europe and the world.
The cooperation plan between Leeds United and the city government also includes a ten-year children's fund.
Leeds United has committed to provide more than three million pounds of funding to the city of Leeds over the next ten years, specifically for children's health, education, social inclusion, disability and sports development, etc., and will also organize a series of schools, communities,
Social activities in hospitals and other places.
This children's fund will also be open to the world and attract more public and private financial support.
In Europe, almost all teams have to fulfill such social responsibilities, and Leeds United is no exception. It’s just that the White Rose’s plan is the largest in the UK, which also reflects Leeds United’s giving back to fans and society.
Determination.
The team also hopes to use this to win the government's green light when Leeds United chooses a builder.
According to predictions, if you choose a Chinese builder, you can save at least 20% on the construction cost.
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Whether it is the design of Norman Foster Company or Leeds United's foundation and community plans, both Zinedine Zidane and Carlo are full of praise for it.
In European football, if you want to gain a foothold, you have to do this.
This can also be seen that Gao Shen really wants to run Leeds United for a long time.
Norman Foster's design is of the same high standard as always. Whether it is the design technique and style, or the materials and technology involved in the construction, it is the highest level at the moment.
This is also a consistent characteristic of Norman Foster.
However, the price is also very expensive.
According to the communication between Norman Foster's team, Lucas and others, the budget of the entire training base must be exceeded, and it will be exceeded by a lot.
"How much more?" Su Qing is in charge of finance, and she is most concerned about the budget.
Lucas immediately looked at Norman Foster.
The old knight himself felt a little embarrassed, "It is expected to cost 80 million pounds."
Everyone was a little shocked.
Is this too much?
You know, how much money did Wenger spend to build Colney training ground?
Tottenham Hotspur have just built a training base and a small indoor football field in Enfield, but their total investment is only more than 40 million pounds. Leeds United is now fully Tottenham Hotspur.
Twice the sting.
Sure enough, budgets are meant to be exceeded.
"Of course, if the budget does exceed too much, we can also make arrangements, such as reducing the area of the indoor football field, which can reduce a lot of budget, as well as the stadium to the north of us, and other site landscapes..."
Party B like Norman Foster is not strong at all and is very considerate of Party A.
After all, Leeds United is the one paying the money.
Now, everyone including Su Qing and Lucas immediately looked at Gao Shen.
The complete design is indeed very charming. Although it is just some hand drawings, it outlines a very wonderful prospect. I believe that once designed and completed, it will definitely be the top training base in the world.
It will even amaze fans all over the world.
When everyone looked at Gao Shen, he thought about another question in his mind.
"Fernando, tell me, if we build a training base like this, which is written by a master and can be called a work of art, will we be able to attract sponsors? How much will the naming fee be?"
Everyone in the audience was dumbfounded.
Is the training base seeking title sponsorship?
Is it possible?
"Manchester United mentioned last year that they would sponsor the Carrington training base. Didn't their training uniform sponsorship sell for 10 million pounds at that time? So they wanted to strike while the iron was hot and wanted to sponsor the training base again. The price they gave
It’s also ten million pounds.”
When Lucas said this, he shrugged his shoulders, "But no one cared."
Manchester United's so-called 10 million pound training uniform sponsorship is not just about wearing it at the training base, but also wearing training uniforms named by this DHL logistics company during the warm-up training before the game.
That's why we can get such a high sponsorship fee.
Of course, no matter how you look at it, you are making a lot of money.
But what can I do? This is Manchester United.
There is only one Manchester United in the world, and you can’t envy it.
"But what's the point of sponsoring Manchester United's poor training base? Ours is different." Gao Shen felt that if Manchester United couldn't do it, Leeds United might not be able to do it.
Manchester United wants 10 million pounds, and Leeds United doesn't want that much either.
If we can get title sponsorship, that would definitely be a good thing.
Lucas thought about it and thought he could give it a try. After all, as Gao Shen said, this stunt is unusual.
Leeds United is now quite famous on the global Internet.
If nothing else, from the beginning of construction to completion, it will definitely attract a lot of attention around the world, which will also be of great benefit to the title sponsors.
"Let's go back and make some arrangements." The more Lucas thought about it, the more he thought it was possible.
Others, including Norman Foster, were stunned.
Are you sure this penny-pinching guy is really the world's top coach?
