{"id":677857,"date":"2026-01-06T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677857\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:30:18","slug":"ooda-reveals-latticed-training-facility-for-al-nassr-fc-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677857\/","title":{"rendered":"OODA reveals latticed training facility for Al Nassr FC in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portuguese studio OODA<\/a> has designed a training centre<\/a> for Saudi football<\/a> club Al Nassr, which will have a triangular-patterned facade informed by the country’s\u00a0traditional architecture.<\/p>\n

Currently under construction beside the club’s existing Al-Awwal Park stadium in Riyadh<\/a>, the 4,000-square-metre House of Nassr complex,\u00a0will comprise two training pitches alongside indoor facilities.<\/p>\n

\"HouseOODA has designed a training centre for Saudi football club Al Nassr<\/p>\n

A pair of rectilinear volumes with latticed facades will flank the pitches and contain administrative areas and social spaces in one, and a hotel in the other. The project’s first phase has been completed, while the second phase involving the hotel’s construction is ongoing.<\/p>\n

OODA<\/a> looked to traditional Saudi architecture for its design, which carries a triangular motif for its openings across the development.<\/p>\n

\"PatternedIt will have a triangular-patterned facade<\/p>\n

“The architectural expression is derived from an interpretation of references to Saudi vernacular architecture through the controlled use of light and shadow, rhythmic facade composition, and a filtering envelope designed in response to local climatic conditions,” the studio said.<\/p>\n

“This establishes a direct relationship with the territorial context and the club’s identity.”<\/p>\n

\"HouseTwo volumes will flank the centre’s pitches<\/p>\n

Renders of the House of Nassr reveal two low-lying volumes stretching alongside the pitches. An additional pavilion building will overlook the larger training pitch.<\/p>\n

The two main buildings will be composed of a textured base and a latticed upper level to filter light into the interior spaces.<\/p>\n

The smaller of the two volumes is set to contain the hotel, with renders depicting the structure raised atop a series of walls punctuated with triangular openings. This will form an open-air ground level.<\/p>\n

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OODA wraps Liga Portugal HQ and football museum with honeycomb-patterned facade\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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This layout, according to the studio, was designed to “respond to the operational demands of professional football” by creating a direct connection between the pitches and interior spaces.<\/p>\n

“The architecture establishes a continuous connection between the buildings and the playing fields, structuring the project around the scale of the athletes and their sport,” the studio said.<\/p>\n

“The arrangement of volumes, access points and observation areas further strengthens the interplay between training and preparation.”<\/p>\n

\"ChangingIt will contain administrative areas alongside a hotel<\/p>\n

Inside, the facilities will have neutral-coloured floors and walls set off by decorative details in the club’s colours of yellow and blue.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, OODA also recently unveiled plans for a gridded skyscraper designed to be an “urban gateway” for Tirana, Albania<\/a>, and has completed the Liga Portugal HQ and football museum with a honeycomb-patterned facade in Porto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The renders are by Plomp<\/a> and OODA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portuguese studio OODA has designed a training centre for Saudi football club Al Nassr, which will have a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,94,122049,55356,6506,126129,126130,126131,164407,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-677857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ooda","14":"tag-riyadh","15":"tag-saudi-arabia","16":"tag-sectionall","17":"tag-sectionarchitecture","18":"tag-sectionnews","19":"tag-sports-centres","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115848637774384317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}