Year 2014 will be the year of Asian Games at Incheon in South Korea. While millions of dollars go into building superb infrastructure for the games by governments and countries, a new design for the main stadium at the games has gone a step ahead. The competition-winning design of the main stadium for the 17th Asian games at Incheon shows what sustainable design could do to help.

How is it different? The stadium will hold 70,000 people for the main event in 2014. The special bit is that it can come down to a single sided grandstand for 30,000 after that, as a People’s Park for the city of Incheon. International architecture firm Populous that was HOK Sport Venue Event formerly, is into designing Incheon stadium along with a South Korean firm Heerim Architects and Planners.

Officials from Populous say the stadium design is based on an asymmetrical configuration, with the main corporate and management facilities located on its `permanent’ western side. A `lighter’ part will on the Eastern side will have the temporary modular seating structure that can disappear after the games. This way, they say the stadium structure integrate into the local landscape. Optimum use of space!

Via: Bustler, Heerim, Populous