The lighting concept design was developed with simplicity in mind, allowing the architecture to speak for itself and ensuring that the Stadium would glow from within – reminiscent of a Chinese lantern – drawing people to the hive of activity within. The abundance of light from inside the Stadium silhouettes the exterior beams and columns.
The white, translucent ETFE acoustic ceiling above the arena seating, and the semi-transparent PTFE surface on top of the roof structure both glow at night by uniformly lighting the top surface of the acoustic ceiling with a series of evenly-spaced floodlights mounted within the roof structure. The lighting design could only come to reality thanks to the numerous mockups on site that we evaluated with the client.