Nou Mestalla (2021) Construction Diary: Part 1

July 28: The first day of the competition. Fortunately for me, the start of the competition came while we were in lockdown, so I ended up having more time to work on it. While I waited for the regulations and that to be clarified and finalised, I worked on the surrounds. This is the model I made of Dama Iberica statue next to the stadium.

July 28: Later on, working on some of the other buildings.

July 29: Progress on the surrounding buildings. I was super pleased with the V shaped building next to the roundabout (have forgotten the name) as that was such a unique shape to work with. Decided to see how the buildings looked in the main model for this shot.

July 30: One more building taken care of.

July 30: Getting work done on the other sides. Both of these sides were really basic and straightforward to model.

July 31: The final buildings were modelled, so I copied them into the main model and got ready to start work on my design.

July 31: The reversed view. Felt really happy with how they came out, and knew there would be a lot more to come from them when they were textured and lit up.

August 01: Started work on the seating bowl. This was an absolute slog, as so many of the sections of the stadium are different lengths, so it wasn't possible for me to just copy seats from one section to another. A lot of manual work through here, which was not fun. Some of the buildings visible in the background highlight how important getting them modelled was.

August 02: Copied the lower tier into a new file and started extending the stands down from their current location to the pitch level. I actually ended up redoing the seating from the earlier image as I figured out how to do it simpler.

August 02: Finished up the lower tier with some of the media seating and VIP seating at the front of the main stand.

August 02: The reverse view

August 02: Working on the pitch level. With the lower tier modelled, I was able to go and fill in the space between the pitch and stand. I just stuck an orange material down on it and figured I would go back and do something more with it later.

August 02: Looking down at the work so far.

August 03: Getting to work on the middle tier. At least this was (semi) symmetrical so it was a quicker job.

August 03: The completed middle tier.

August 03: Copied into the main file

August 03: Another view

August 04: A look at the VIP boxes tier

To be continued...