It was presented to the new Bologna Palazzetto Sport, intended to become a major public facilities for the conduct of international competitions, already accredited by the city to welcome the world of basketball in 2014, designed by Performa A + U. The new arena will have a capacity of not less than 15,000 spectators and conforming to the standards of European basketball competitions and world, but will also carry out non-sporting activities such as shows.

For this reason, the project is integrated with other land to be allocated to sports covered multipurpose spaces for games and recreational activities, conference rooms, facilities and management, commercial areas declined mainly sport and wellness areas and catering. I expected more spacious park equipped with sports fields and outdoor play spaces, green spaces equipped and connective aggregation.

The area chosen for the intervention, although for some time included in the local town planning instruments, was still strong characterization of the landscape typical bolognese. The idea driving the project was to insert the new volume built with minimum impact and exalting, simultaneously, the environmental values of the area. The main building is designed as a macro-soil root ball lifted under which there are volumes built, while, above, is organizing a large park that forms a "green system" with the ecological corridor off Zenetta. The overall effect will be that of a hill that is part of the landscape and, at the same time, a structure which is enclosed by vegetation. The root ball is crossed by canyons creating a system of squares and courtyards behind the park. The visible part of the buildings, the Open always perimeter artificial wants to draw the suggestion of the root ball through the treatment of various cosmetic strongly characterized in terms of optimizing energy performance of the volumes.

* Urban and architectural project: PERFORMA A + U
* Architectural Project dell'arena sport: A + U PERFORMA with Arup and Arup Sport Italia
* Client: Development S.r.l. 77
* Area: 25,000 sqm sports Arena
* Rehabilitation Center and gyms mq 5000
* Wellness center and 38,000 square meters
* 22,000 sqm Eduteinement
* Start of work: 2009-2010
* Delivery Arena: 2013


Masterplan

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awful and interesting

Now that is designing green!

Bologna is propably the only city where basketball is more popular than football...

Bologna is propably the only city where basketball is more popular than football...

Maybe Siena, Pesaro and Treviso too.

Will it be use by Virtus, Fortitudo, or both teams?

That's great, kid. A city park right on top of a indoor arena, very compelling. If you were to see something like that on Google Earth, you can't even tell it is really a sports arena.

Will it be use by Virtus, Fortitudo, or both teams?

Fortitudo...they really need to replace the old "Paladozza", a small and ugly Arena...
Virtus plays at "Futurshow station" (capacity: currently 8k, will be expanded to 11k soon):
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8290/1487palamalaguti.jpg (http://img43.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1487palamalaguti.jpg)

The "Parco Delle Stelle" (park of the Stars) is a plan that difficultly will be completed.

The Owner of Fortitudo Basketball launched that plan almost 2 years ago, and the only thing that up to now has shown is these designs and a stupid advertising campaign, no projects, no permissions, only words to mask a difficult financial situation and the team's very bad results (degraded in italian 2nd league altough great ambitions).

Otherwise Bologna don't need another arena, because the city has already an important, beautiful, modern and efficient arena (Futurshow station), that will be soon expanded (from 8000 to 11000 seats), with large possibilities and spaces to expand it again, and because the public of Fortitudo difficultly catches up 5000 spectators, so another big arena with 15.000 seats is considered useless because Bologna is a big town but not so big as the major european cities, and it's true that here in my city basket is more considered that football (also this then is not thus true, basket capture many spectators but however much less of soccer) but it's impossible to fill up two great arenas!

Greetings from Bologna

Really sorry for my english... I like this forum because i like so much stadiums and arenas, I'll try to improve to participate!

Fortitudo...they really need to replace the old "Paladozza", a small and ugly Arena...


Sorry, but that's not true: the exterior of Paladozza is ugly, but inside, Paladozza is Fantastic, with a superb acustic; it's really a little jewel.

Fortitudo and Virtus (because Paladozza once was Virtus home) fans really love it.

I was talkin' about the exterior, inside it's not bad, you're right...I wouldn't say fantastic, but not bad at all, if compared with the average italian arenas..."Historic" place, anyway!
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7154/paladozzavuotointerno1.jpg (http://img42.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paladozzavuotointerno1.jpg)

Canceled?

I like this green design inside and out! Hope they build it!

Canceled?

i think it will! Italy economic restrictions context should down this one