Innovative uses of shipping containers inspire Ras Abu Aboud World Cup stadium

When Qatar began constructing the eight stadiums dedicated to hosting the FIFA World Cup that will be held in the country in 2022, it did not occur to anyone that a stadium would be built from shipping containers that would be completely dismantled at the end of the tournament.

It is a project that has been undertaken by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy responsible for the projects related to the World Cup, which chose the get creative with stadium designs, regardless of the challenges and obstacles it would face.

As a result, with Qatar 2022 less than two years away, the Ras Abu Aboud stadium will become the first fully dismountable stadium in the history of the World Cup, incorporating almost 1,000 shipping containers. The stadium is exemplary of how to best conserve resources, as the containers will be dismantled and reused after he event.

In a nod to sustainability, the Supreme Committee has posted a video to the wall of its official Twitter page, showing five innovative uses of shipping containers from around the world that helped to inspire the idea behind the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, which has been a wonderful and unprecedented development at the World Cup level, or even at level of football stadiums in general.

Those five uses shown in the video are a student housing project in Johannesburg, South Africa, a coffee shop in Shanghai, China, artworks in Belgium, research centers in Antarctica, and the BOXPARK mall in London, UK.

The Ras Abu Aboud stadium has a 40,000-seat capacity but after the World Cup there will be no more matches played at the stadium, as it will be dismantled after the event and converted into 20 to 30 smaller venues for use by the local community.