Kerbala

Kerbala Stadium – “The Kerbala Arches” proposes a football venue that fuses Kerbala’s historical, religious, and architectural heritage with a distinctly contemporary identity. The architectural concept is anchored in a powerful local symbol: the pointed arch, referenced from the city’s sacred architecture and reinterpreted as the project’s primary megastructure. StudioMAAC A ring of 16 intersecting arches (approximately 38 m wide and 19 m high) forms a protective perimeter and supports a system of tensile canvas roofing. This intermediary structure operates as a threshold—an outer “transition” space before entering the stadium—bringing multiple benefits: solar control, the f... More