Architect: Stufish
Client/Owner: ABBA Voyage (Aniara Ltd)
Structural Engineer: Atelier One, Joe Clifton (Stage One) and Corbett & Tasker
Auditorium and Rainscreen
Main Contractor: ES Global
Timber Specialist Contractor: Xylotek Ltd
Timber Technical Design: Xylotek Ltd
Structural Engineer: Corbett & Tasker
Wood Supplier (CLT): Hasslacher Norica Timber
Wood Supplier (Finger jointed larch): Piveteaubois
Species: Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) – European Spruce (Austria), European Larch (France)
Photography credits: © Martin Phelps
Front of House
Structural Engineer: Atelier One, Joe Clifton (Stage One)
Main Contractor: Stage One Creative Services Ltd
Joinery Company: Stage One Creative Services Ltd
Tensile Membrane Design & Fabrication: Architen Landrell
Larch Cladding: Russwood Ltd
Wood Supplier: ZÜBLIN Timber
Species: Cross Laminated Timber – European Spruce (Germany), Glued Laminated Timber – European Spruce (Austria), European Larch (Austria), Siberian Larch (Russia), Birch Plywood (Estonia), Iroko (Nigeria) – PEFC
Photography credits: © Dirk Lindner
Location: London
Home to the ground-breaking virtual concert series, Abba Voyage, the ABBA Arena in East London is the world’s largest demountable concert venue, with a capacity of 3,000.
From the ‘Auditorium’, a four-storey tall seating area made of 1650 unique cross-laminated panels, each up to 9.9 metres long, to the exterior larch timber ‘Rainscreen’ made up of 1400 finger-jointed larch fins which envelop the arena, timber is integral to every part of this project.
Timber continues into the ‘Front of House’ with the central concourse area covered by a hybrid spruce glulam and steel canopy structure. Twenty-four hexagonal canopies, each with a diameter of 10 metres, combine to form the geometric roof structure where LED lighting is integrated into the glulam beams. The concourse is surrounded by seven CLT buildings, each clad with a complex Larch rainscreen.
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