Stadium

An investigation of a stadiums potentials beyond sports event, religious congregations, political rallies, or acts of tyranny, and of private property's logic in context with land deregulation and housing atomization

Stadium is the theme chosen for the Chilean Pavilion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The intent is to capture the story of the National Stadium in Santiagoboth a building and a city for a day. On September 29, 1979, 40,000 families filled the stadium's seats; around 250,000 people from all over the country's capital. The occasion was the signing of documents that transformed these people into proprietors. Prior to the event, the press circulated a list of names of the people summoned to the stadiumbeneficiaries of Operación Sitio, a public housing programtogether with a plan that showed the stadium subdivided into boroughs.

This book tells the dual story of the stadium and the exhibition at the Chilean Pavilion, interwoven with the Architecture Exhibition's broad theme of Freespace. The book is organized into four chapters, each featuring short essays and illustrations, including drawings, plans, and photographs. In the making of the exhibition, the stadium's floorplan no longer demarcates the stands but visualizes another city marginalized from its center. Each section is extruded as a block, engraved with the urban fabric of the fragment of the city from which it originates. A timely contribution to a continuing conversation, Stadium will be welcomed by architects, urban planners, and those who provide housing.

• Investigates a stadium's architectural and social potentials beyond sports event, religious congregations, political rallies, or acts of tyranny
• Examines the naturalization of private property's logic, land liberalization and deregulation, and the resulting housing atomization

• Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Chilean Pavilion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

  Autorentext
  Alejandra Celedón and Stephannie Fell are architects working as a researchers and lecturers at Pontifica Universidad Católica's School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies in Santiago. They are co-curators of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.