Manchester United will try to complete their stunning, new 100,000-capacity stadium-that a public square is twice as large as Trafalgar Square and their own version of Wembley Way-in an ambitious five-year period.
The Premier League giants revealed plans to deliver 'the largest football stadium' in the world on Tuesday morning in two separate videos, showing how the unique new location will be placed under a huge 'umbrella' and three Giants Towers inspired by the Trident of the Red Devils.
The first video, told by the former captain Gary Neville of Manchester United, led fans through the vision, where the design 'umbrella' created a sweeping glass and steel canopy to dry fans both inside and outside – in what will become the largest covered space in the world.
A huge Wraparound scoreboard also contains, along with a three-storey museum and restaurants on the canal side as part of a huge Fandorp in a projectman United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, says that will retain the essence of Old Trafford … while the fan experience only uses footsteps of our existing house. “
Despite the seismic and ambitious plans, Manchester United hopes to complete the new stadium – which is estimated in the region of £ 2 billion – in just five years.
The renowned British architect Lord Norman Foster explained why the reduced timeline was made possible in a second video that the club posted on Tuesday.
He shared how stadium constructors and the Old Trafford Regeneration Task Force, chaired by Lord Sebastian Coe, plan to produce components off-site and use the existing functions of the city to assemble them on site.
United is planning to use the Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-Mile Waterweg that connects the city to the Irish Sea, to transport parts of the stadium to the existing Old Trafford site.
'Normally a stadium would take 10 years to build. We halved that time, five years, “Foster said during the video.
“How do we do that? By using prefabrication, by using the Manchester Ship Canal network, reducing it to a new life.
'Shipping in components, 160 of them, Meccano-like. And then we rebuild the Old Trafford station, and that will be the Pivot, the processional way to the stadium, welcoming and in the heart of a new neighborhood led by Sport.
'It is walkable, it is well served by public transport. It is endowed by nature. It learns from the past, it creates streets. It is a mini-urban mix use. '
At the unveiling of Manchester United of the stadium, Ratcliffe added: 'We can build a stadium much faster (than the conventional time frame of 10 years).
'There are yards that build structures and are then sent to locations around the world. The thing that enables us to do that is the ship channel in Manchester. That half time. '
Foster opened the vision as a whole and said: 'This must be one of the most exciting projects in the world. It starts with the most famous football club in the world, a billion followers worldwide, so it starts with the fans.
'It starts with the idea to make something that is so intense, it brings you close to the field. Acoustic it cultivates the roar.
'While you leave the stadium, it is not a fort surrounded by a sea of cars. It is open and it is absorbed by an umbrella that harvests solar energy, harvesting rainwater – but it is protective and it is perhaps the largest public space in the world.
'It is hospitable, it is open, it is in the heart of a new neighborhood. And then it is part of the city of Manchester, the fastest growing city in the United Kingdom. Again, a city, like no other.
'It is a powerhouse, steeped in history. Trafford Park was the industrial heart of the nation, a heritage with which I have a personal relationship. My father was a factory worker at metropolitan Vickers.
'And then, the three masts, the trident, visible of 40 kilometers, 200 meters high. So this will be a global destination.
'And what makes a worldwide destination? What makes something special? It's teamwork. They are the best brain, the civil leaders, the owners, the consultants, the engineers, the architects, the fans.
'The list is so long, it is a team effort. That is the heart of the success of this project. '
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