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HOWZAT FOR
WORLD’S LARGEST
CRICKET STADIUM
The design of Motera Stadium allows it to
play host to international cricket matches
as well as community events.
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and the sound to make every experience dormitory for up to 40 athletes, six provides both the capacity for 110,000
a special one.” indoor practice pitches and three fans to attend any match, with the
outdoor practice fields. majority (100,000) of them as General
Design masterplan The stadium design features four-team Admission seats.
The timeline of the project, from dressing rooms and facilities, state-of- “This is a stadium for the people. The
inception to delivery was 2017 to 2020. the-art club facilities and a VIP pavilion, ratio of general admission seats to
three practice grounds, an indoor cricket corporate boxes means this stadium
The Gujarat Cricket Association,
academy, an Olympic-size swimming has more affordable seating prices
along with L&T as construction
pool, 76 corporate boxes and a media making it very accessible for all.”
contractors were the client. Populous
lounge with press rooms.
were contracted by L&T to deliver
architectural design services up until “The stadium will become an iconic Multipurpose venue
schematic design. sports venue for both aspiring and Cricket is the biggest sport in India
elite players. It will become one of the and this stadium has been designed
This included the full masterplan, world’s great cricket stadiums, putting to bring together as many fans
the original architect’s vision for the the Gujarat Cricket Association on the as possible, creating an incredible
stadium, the landscaping plan, interior global sporting map,” James said. atmosphere for international cricket,
design and the wayfinding. IPL matches through to regional and
He added: “People in India identify with
Populous’ masterplan includes a cricket as a national sport, a game community games.
community indoor cricket academy that unites everyone. It holds a deep The stadium will not just be for major
housed under the stadium, with a passion within them and the stadium local and international cricket matches,
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it will also be for community use. There and develop an economical roof and valleys for the membrane roof.
is a community indoor cricket academy system. Therefore, very early in the The radial cables are aligned in such
housed under the podium in the stadium, design phase, it was decided that the a way that rainwater flows over the
with a dormitory for up to 40 athletes, best option would be to incorporate membrane and drains into the gutter
allowing students from across India and a lightweight cable-supported tensile positioned along the lower chord of the
the globe to attend. membrane roof supported by steel compression ring, this, in turn, provides
The academy also has access to six columns. Additionally, the team decided shape to the membrane panel.
indoor practice pitches and three that the reinforced concrete bowl
The outer compression ring is
outdoor practice fields. and the roof structure needed to be
supported on the structural steel ‘V’
independent of each other. This decision
James said: “The sheer scale of this columns along the circumference at
was primarily motivated by the seismic
project presented the biggest challenge. regular intervals. In addition to serving
hazard for the project. Without such
On top of that the site itself was barely as gravity supports, ‘V’ columns also
an approach, the cost premium on
large enough to fit the width of the provide resistance to lateral loads for
the roof and the supporting structure
stadium and had to design around the the roof.
due to seismic forces could have
preservation of an existing temple on been significant. The structural steel columns are
the site too. typically supported on the RC column
Amol Acharya, Director of Structural
“We were able to overcome this with Engineering for WPM in India, said: “The at the concourse level. The inner
the bowl design consisting of two large reinforced concrete bowl structure tension ring also supports a catwalk
seating tiers each with approximately had expansion joints whereas the roof running all through the inner tension
50,000 general admission seat structure, due to virtue of its nature ring circumference.
capacity, designed in a way to direct an cannot have such joints. A combined
efficient circulation of patrons to fill the interaction, analysis, and behaviour Inspection and
lower levels for smaller events, while of such structures are complex. This maintenance
maintaining the spectator atmosphere problem was simplified by having a The field of play lights are mounted on
even when the seating bowl isn’t full.” separate structural system for the the catwalk along its perimeter and it
roof and the bowl. This strategy also also allows access for inspection and
Roof structure allowed independent teams to work maintenance of the tensile structure. A
Motera Stadium is double the size of the simultaneously on two separate non-linear analysis program NDN was
venue it has replaced and creating a roof structures to meet an aggressive used to analyse and study the behaviour
for the venue proved a challenge. project schedule.” of the structure for a number of gravity,
Walter P Moore was contacted by L&T The cantilever span of the tensile seismic, and wind load combinations.
to join the project team because of their membrane system is around 30m and The stadium roof follows the oval
experience in sports structures and covers the upper bowl of the stadium. shape of the stadium bowl, the massive
lightweight longspan roofs. The tensile membrane system primarily compression truss thus trails this oval
Once the team was selected and design comprises of a two-chord compression shape around the perimeter of the
began, the experts at Walter P Moore ring at the outer edge (stadium stadium. The entire length of the oval-
began to consider options for Motera’s perimeter) and a single tension ring shaped compression truss would be
roof system. cable on the inner edge (toward field around a kilometer.
Taking into consideration the fact that of play). The roof erection involved synchronous
the city of Ahmedabad is located in The radial cables are pretensioned pulling of the cables from the
seismic zone 3, the roof needed to be and tied to the outer compression ring compression ring supported by the
lightweight to reduce seismic demand with cable connectors forming ridges columns, this was imperative to avoid
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