Visit the Allianz Arena, opened in 2005, was designed purely as a football stadium. The architecturally unique arena was constructed in under three years. Read on for comprehensive facts and figures about the state-of-the-art stadium in the heart of Europe.
Main stand lower tier, Middle tier, Press conference area, Home dressing room, Mixed Zone, Players' tunnel, Explanation of the exterior facade.
The architecture of the Allianz Arena is unique worldwide. Its facade consists of the largest membrane shell in the world. It is about 35 metres high and has an outside surface area of 29,000 m².
The installation of the new LED lighting on the facade began in October 2014. It took around 100 days to install. This system makes the Allianz Arena Germany’s first and Europe’s biggest stadium with surrounding outdoor LED lighting for dynamic lighting moods. 1,506 of the 2,760 panels illuminate when the lighting is active. This means an area of 26,000 m² of lit up outer-material is visible to fans and passers-by, an area equal to that of three and a half professional football pitches. Instead of the mere three colours (red, blue and white) that the old system produced, the new lighting system produces up to 16 million different colours enabling the finest colour nuances and combinations.
Concealed behind the highly homogeneous and plastic appearance, are more than 300,000 LED lights on around 6,500 Philips ColorGraze lights. In each air cushion there are approximately 285 LEDs mounted onto seven to eight lights.
The lights are equipped with special optics and mounted on the underside of the panels. The lenses are customized to scatter the light onto the surface of the rhomboids.
Digital Control and Maintenance Platform
The digital control can control more than 300,000 points of light in 16 million colours. Even the finest nuances, intensities and gradients are possible. Image repetition rates guarantee fluid moving sequences of up to 40 frames per second.
Lighting Concepts
The Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron developed the curatorial concepts for the new lighting. They were also responsible for the architecture of the Allianz Arena. The colour dynamics put emphasis on stillness and elegance and awaken, in addition to the static illuminations, a direct association with football.
On non-match days, elegant colour dynamics in red, white and blue are planned. To this end, Herzog & de Meuron has designed twelve dynamic transition scenarios that can be classified into four categories: form-based waves, pixel-based clouds, column-based gradients as well as line-based rounds.
Different lighting scenarios are possible and can be changed depending on the activity in the stadium: on non-match evenings standard dynamic lighting is planned whereas for home and away matches a concept of static illuminations is used and for special events the lighting is a custom designed program.
Facade
2,874 rhomboidal inflated ETFE foil panels form the 66,500 m² roof and facade
Biggest membrane shell in the world
Data on the ETFE foil (Ethylene Tetrafluoro-ethylene):
Thickness: 0.2 mm
Weight: 350 g/ m²
UV permability: 95%
Visible light permability: 93%
Fans keep the panels inflated at a constant pressure of 0.035 bar (maximum possible pressure 0.08 bar)
In case of snowfall, 12 pressure-monitoring points ensure the correct pressure adjustments to allow for snow up to 1.6 m.
Construction cost - €340 million
Capacity 75,024 seats (during national games)
standing area : total 15,794 (9,136 in the South and 6,658 in the North Stands)
Press club with 300 seats
9,800 parking places in four x four-storey Esplanade car parks (the largest in Europe)
Inside the Arena
6,000 m² of catering facilities devided into following sections:
28 kiosks
2 fan-restaurants (one in the north- and one in the south-stand), each with 1,000 seats
Bistro accommodating 400 people
Business Club with 2,152 seats
106 VIP boxes of various sizes accommodating 1,374 guests
Press club with about 350 seats
Mixed Zone (520 m²)
54 ticket counters
FC BAYERN STORE
FC Bayern Museum (Germany's biggest club museum)
4 changing rooms (FC Bayern, 2x Guest); 4 for coaches ; 2 for referees
2 warm-up rooms, each 110m²
1,121 WC-cubicles in the Arena
more than 750 screens in the Arena
Interior
Pitch: 68 m x 105 m, pitch total: 72 m x 111 m
Total surface (barrier to barrier): 120 m x 83 m
Spectator distance from pitch: 7.5 m minimum
2 x 200 m² LED Video Walls in 16:9 format, 42.5 m above ground. Additionaly 2 36,80 m2 LED Video Walls on each back .
296 floodlights, 45 m high
20 Moving-Heads for entertainment lighting
Stadium dimensions: 258 m x 227 m x 52 m (gross figure)
7 levels
Admeasurement: 840 m
Illuminated area (16 million colours; LED technology); 25,500 m²
Area occupied by stadium: 37,600 m²
Total site area: 171,000 m²
Esplanade dimensions: 543 m x 136 m x 0-12 m
4 levels
Admeasurement: 1.358 m
Covered area: approx 73,900 m²