Remember when the Atlanta Falcons announced they ’d be building a new stadium — using aboatload of public money — that would be crowned with a retractable cap ? The architects of the $ 1.2 billion labor lately passed along a young fly front - through of the innovation . And while it ’s our good flavour yet at the structure , it also brings up plenty of questions .
The sports stadium ’s designer , 360 Architecture , wasrecently learn by mega - fast HOK — which sent along their latest renderings of the sports stadium , currently under construction and planned for a 2017 initiative . You ’ll think of that thefirst renderingsof its unusual ceiling structure showed a gossamer of wispy metal prance that seemed to open and close , and the Falcons are going through with the unconvincing ( and definitely wildly expensive ) programme .
The new rainfly - through exhibit a more highly-developed version of the roof — which Deadpsin obviously baptise “ the Sphincter“—that will open and close like a hexangular aperture on a camera , as a crush release explains :
Inspired by the oculus in the ancient Rome Pantheon , the stadium ’s unique ceiling opening will provide frightful flexibility in hosting a wide variety of events in the stadium . Eight unequalled roof petals can open in less than eight minute , creating a “ photographic camera lens - corresponding ” gist that uncover the inside of the adeptness to the open air on plot and event days . The roof is construct of ETFE framework that , when closed , allow for translucent twinkle into the stadium .
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Fascinating though it sounds , that ’s not a terribly detailed description of the defining feature of a buildingalready well afoot . The mechanics of the aperture seem fairly wide-eyed , but I ’m rummy about the tracks the eight roof module seem to slither on , and what ’s power them — not to mention how the movement will affect the rest of the bodily structure , and how it will stand up to high-pitched winds . We ’ve touch out to HOK to find out a bit more about the structure , and we ’ll describe back when we do . [ Atlanta Falcons ]
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