Given its modest occupancy in legacy and prompted by the Olympic Delivery Authority’s (ODA) sustainability agenda, the design team sought to create as efficient and compact a venue as possible, envisaging the building as a track with a ‘shrink-wrapped’ envelope. ![]() Selected through competition from a shortlist which included David Chipperfield, FOA, Wilkinson Eyre and FaulknerBrowns with Heatherwick Studio, the team led by Hopkins Architects senior partner Mike Taylor proposed a double-curvature structure wrapped around the track, with a glazed concourse allowing views onto the track and over the park.Īnother key initial concept was to split the seating into upper and lower tiers so the Velodrome would not feel so vast when partially occupied.
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