Soccer stadium concept

[Kevin W.]

I've done a preliminary sketch of Scripps Health Park, my CPL team's (Club Atletico Real San Diego) new stadium. The point of this is to get feedback on the general idea while I try to figure out a better way to create the image. I'm still taking baby steps with Inkscape, after all.

Feel free to chuckle at the irony of the fact that the stadium sponsor is Scripps Health while my team's shirt sponsor is General Atomics, a defense contractor. That was intentional.

The scale is 2 pixels = 1 yard. I'm still not sure about the capacity. I think I got the scale in relation to the field right. The red, yellow and white seats are the normal seats, while the purple and orange are the press boxes and luxury suites, respectively. That big gray thing is the scoreboard. It's 291 feet across. Suck on that, Jerry Jones!

Here's a map with the stadium overlaid onto the current site of Qualcomm Stadium. Since 78 pixels is 500 feet at that scale, I divided 78 by 500 to get .156. Then, I divided 512 (the width of the stadium image) by 2 and then multiplied it by 3 to get the stadium length in feet (768 feet) which I then multiplied by .156 to get the stadium's small size for the map image (119.808). My math may be off and the round answer of 120 may be completely wrong. I certainly wouldn't complain if someone corrected my math, because it's late and my head hurts, so I might have gotten that wrong.

This assumes that the Chargers moved to a new downtown stadium, thus leaving the Qualcomm site vacant. A man certainly can dream about a real-life soccer-specific stadium being built there for a future San Diego MLS team.

[Jahgee]

What resolution is the KevinTron, it could become the first 4380i TV ever. Your stadium has a capacity of over 85,000 from my math.

[Jer15]

Very cool.

I've got to get on doing something like this for Vic Park for my boys.

That's one hell of a scoreboard.

This isn't the actual site for the stadium is it? You just put it there for comparison purposes, right?

[GeauxColonels]

Just by looking at the image, I would think that the capacity would be fairly high given the upper decks drawn in. If you want to bring the capacity down (which would probably be more realistic for a soccer-specific stadium) I would eliminate the white seating sections as well as the yellow end seating.

[Guest]

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to calculate screen resolution.

This isn't the actual site for the stadium is it? You just put it there for comparison purposes, right?

I don't see why it couldn't be the site. After all, it's not a real stadium.

[Guest]

Ok, here it is with the white seats removed.

One of the lower level boxes is 3,384 square feet if my math is right (48 feet wide by 70.5 feet high). Any idea how many seats that would fit?

[crashcarson15]

^I've always calculated 42 (6x7) for every 15x15 square, so... that'd be 28 rows by 22 seats.

[TheOneAndOnlyMau]

have you ever tried sketchup? it might be a cool resource for a project like this.

[Guest]

Ok, here's what I've started doing to figure out the capacity.

Assuming 24 seats to a row with allowances for aisles, there are 576 seats (24 rows) in each of the north and south sections (the ones I've done so far). There are 675 seats (27 rows) in the east and west sections. So far, that's a capacity of 8,496.

[Jer15]

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to calculate screen resolution.

This isn't the actual site for the stadium is it? You just put it there for comparison purposes, right?

I don't see why it couldn't be the site. After all, it's not a real stadium.

Fair enough.

It's coming along really nicely man, and kudos to the amount of detail you are putting into figuring out the seating capacity.

[Guest]

So far, up to a capacity of 12,768.

[GeauxColonels]

So far, up to a capacity of 12,768.

Looking good. I'm thinking your lower bowl may come in around 15,000. Adding in the sideline upperdecks should get you near 20,000.

[Guest]

Up to 16,292.

[NoHoJoe]

KevinTron..4380i......A tv so sharp you are going to need to take a mortgage out for that!

[Guest]

I was having too much trouble figuring out the corner sections of the lower bowl so I took the lazy option and just got rid of them.

I'll be able to C&P the lower sections to to upper level so figuring out the capacity of the upper level shouldn't be difficult.