Neilando

Bjd: thanks. How dya mean they're going viral? That's cool! Will be great if lots of people see them so we get lots of feedback to the club. It is after all our stadium as well as Roman's. Where have the pix been shared?

Thanks guys. But, they are not my designs and I take no credit for them. It's just fun trying to make a better representation of the few images and blue prints we have. The genius is those who came up with the original design.

And in terms of the overall shape of the roof, compare my render to the original image CFC created. Now granted, I haven't modelled the detail such as entrances, or stairs. But this was merely an exercise to give an impression of the roof, not to make a detailed model of the building details. You can see in the original CFC image the cage of buttresses that vary in terms of height to match the changing height of the stands. You can the also see that these buttresses continue over the very top of the external walls to the go over that stands and form the roof. If you look closely, you will notice that the apex of the buttress/roof, curves suggesting there is in fact an outer circle as I have modelled. If it were simply a trick of perspective, then all the lines would curve off into the distance too. Which they do not. The walls etc have straight lines off to their vanishing points. So clearly the roof has a circular apex. You can the see through the buttresses to see a steep change of angle from this apex dropping down to what would be the central tension ring. If you look carefully, you will even notice the horizontal tie beams between each buttress at the apex of the roof, which forms the outer circle of the roof. And look again, and you will notice how the thicker buttresses go over this tie beam, and the thiner buttresses go under it. I really have tried to only model what I can see and have stayed away from imagining what will be there. Because I know there will be an under side to the roof which will be made up of some polycarbonate material to make it weather tight. But as I can't see it, I didn't model it. This is the evidence I used to come up with my render. Also, the brief description of the stadium from the architects themselves added further weight to what I created. "...The stadium will be wrapped in a cage of slender concrete and brick columns that will rise to a zig-zagging profile, before folding over to form the roof – as if the tangle of struts in Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium had been straightened out and neatened up......the area between the facade and the stands will be a dramatic nave-like space, housing a series of muscular spiralling staircases, topped with a roof of flying brick buttresses." Roof of flying brick buttresses. It seems unlikely therefore that the roof will include additional inner spokes of cables etc beyond the 'spokes' of the brick buttresses. That's how my roof design has ended up as it has.

He is a final render of what I think our new stamford bridge stadium will look liked based on all known images, feedback from the consultants at chelsea and all you guys! http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=125421873&postcount=448

I think the design is very bland. It kinda looks like s toilet bowl from the air. Inside it is nice but unremarkable, apart from the 'kop' end they have added which is nice. Given the blank canvas they have in terms of little site restrictions, I'd be disappointed to have a cookie cutter stadium that is just another Emirates style, off the shelf design. The Chelsea design is far more unique and interesting, and has been created having huge restrictions on design that the Spurs stadium didn't have.

http://i.imgur.com/DqMSOiK.jpg

Hi guys. So I remodelled the roof today and foxed some known mistakes and added some suggestions you guys gave me, including alternating the thickness of the buttress supports, and also changing the orientation of the butess so from above, they radiate around the stadium, as if rotated from a central pivot at the centre of the pitch. (That was actually tricky to achieve, as the buttresses still need to align with straight outer walls). Some points to note, based on my model, I find it very hard to believe the roof will be made up of buttress supports that converge into a circular central tension ring above the centre of the pitch. The lengths of the roof supports would be enormous. And secondly, given the overal rectangular shape of the stadium, a central circular roof oculus opening is a poor decision as it would block huge amounts of light. Far less of the pitch would receive daylight. I think that based on my test model it is far more efficient to have the support radiate towards the centre, but converge to form a rectangular roof opening. It also looks far more pleasing and dramatic as it reinforces and works in unison with the dynamic shapes of the asymmetrical design, rather than working against these forms. Another point to note, is just how dynamic and sloped the outer walls will be. This is extremely exciting. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=125402840&postcount=426

I had a little. Go at how the roof might look. But I know it is just a guess. I added the buttresses as seen in the cfc images, and it's a close approximation. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=125380970&postcount=417

I mocked up the model in 3ds max. Crested a spline line tracing of the stands, extruded them to form the model so it would be an exact replica and very accurate down to even the exact number of rows, spacing between tiers etc. when I get more details to work from, I will do a proper photographic render.

Wow, those 3D renders are images I made just today! How quickly things get shared. Let me know if you guys get more details and I will update the images. I would like to do the roof model but I had so little to go on that it would just be guess work. The same. For the exterior. Not sure why the only official images are so very vague.