The Chorus Life arena is a multipurpose building designed for high-level sporting events (5,000 seats, including 8 skyboxes and 150 VIP seats) but with a strong multifunctional connotation that allows it to be used 365 days a year. The main objective is in fact to provide the city not only with a space suitable for sporting events but also, and perhaps above all, to give the citizens a place capable of adapting to the different needs of contemporary entertainment (with a maximum capacity of 6500 spectators between grandstands and parterres). With this in mind, the building was designed so that it could literally "transform" in a very short time from a sports arena to a restaurant, from a convention hall to a space for concerts, exhibitions or fairs. To achieve this, it was necessary to design the traditional auditorium so that it could be freed from the clutter of the stands in a short time to make room for the set-ups necessary for each type of event. In particular, once the grandstands have been retracted, a medium-sized stage protrudes from the floor of the parterre, thirty tables for a total of 340 seats, two service counters for catering and a mobile bar counter, to the point that it can be positioned at the center of the arena itself. All this, connected to a large kitchen capable of serving up to 2000 seats. Finally, a warehouse of over 1000 square meters and accessibility to heavy vehicles up to the center of the parterre guarantee maximum flexibility for any type of set-up, from concerts to trade fairs. From an architectural point of view, the arena appears as a compact building, cut cleanly on the front that relates to the city while its lines appear soft on the interior facing the Chorus Life intervention. A sinuous and permeable skin conceals the dimensions of the building which have therefore been designed in an extremely simple and linear way, looking at distribution functionality and cost containment.



Architecture, Interior design: JDP ARCHITECTS (Joseph di Pasquale, Paolo Labbadini, Diana Ranghetti, Carlo Caserini, Ignacio Uribe, Anna Chistopolova, Paola Sacchi, Maria Accorsi, Federico Tasca, Alessandro Magnaghi, Giacomo Colombini)

Rendering: LINRENDER