The controversy between the human factors and ergonomics demands and the current designing rules of contemporary stadiums

Abstract

The research concerns determining factors of the development of architectural form of modern stadiums and leads to conclusion that the size and shape of the field of game, which is the field of observation, is derivative of the game rules, with no any regard to the factors defining visual comfort of spectators. These game rules, having been invented over one hundred years ago, had not account for the entertaining character of the action on the pitch, nor for the need of co-existence between the field and huge spectator stands. The interiors of future stadiums should be shaped considering correct relationship between the needs of spectators and arena. The appropriate standards of the visibility, adjusted to anatomical features of human eye perception, should have the supreme priority in these relationships, consequently causing, as an outcome of these corrected standards, changes in the shape and size of the arena. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.