Dominant roof
A successful example of a ‘dominant roof’ design is Gunter Behnisch’s complex of sports buildings in the Olympiapark, Munich. In these buildings the wall has been virtually eliminated and the stadia reduced visually to a series of graceful roof forms hovering over green landscape (Figure 5.1). The playing surfaces are recessed below ground level.
Where the walls cannot be eliminated altogether it helps to reduce them to submissive, horizontal elements of ‘built landscape’ over which floats a separate graceful roof.