What the University of Chile stadium would look like, according to artificial intelligence

Throughout history, the club University of Chile with their fans, they have always aspired to the dream of their own stadium . However, the idea of ​​a blues enclosure failed to be plausible, although yes there have been projects and models since the first years of the institution .

Early 2023, Since blue blue gave some signals such as the acquisition of land in the northern area of ​​the metropolitan area , in the municipality of Lampa. But, to date No new information has emerged regarding at the stadium for the romantic traveler.

The great dream of the blues has been present for a few years because they couldn’t use the national stadium for work in preparation for the Pan American Games James 2023 . That’s why the club’s management had to look for other places to play locally, even taking them to other parts of Chile.

Throughout the history of the secular club, there have repeatedly been initiatives by the leaders of each era to build a stadium for the team, which has only materialized today.

1- Monumental Stadium University of Chile

The first serious attempt took place in 1948, a project called “Estadio Monumental Universidad de Chile” initiative of Doctor Julio Kilian and which even had the support of former President Gabriel González Videla. The idea was to do this by paying a share package of 30,000 shares at $1,000 each (value at the time), to be able to buy the land and create the stadium, however, he was never able to sell in full .

2- Parque Araucano Stadium

Second came the club’s most realistic project. It happened in the 1970s, when the University of Chile swapped land it owned in La Castrina, La Granja, by others who were in the old Villa San Luis, where the Parque Araucano is currently located and the Parque Arauco shopping center.

The Pan American Village would also exist on the ground, since Chile was going to host the Pan American Games in 1975. Here, the club was going to build the stadium, as it was sponsored by the government of former president Salvador Allende and its Interior Minister José Tohá. Furthermore, the economic resources available for the lay framework are added with the sales of several actors belonging to the Ballet Azul such as Pedro Araya, Alberto Quintano or Emilio Torrealba.

However, the coup caused the project to not materialize, since the games’ candidacy was lowered and also the Maison d’Etudes intervened, like the club by the military . Eventually, these lands were ceded to the Municipality of Las Condes.

3- The Blue Cauldron

The third occasion was in the 80s, the Professional Soccer Corporation of the University of Chile (Corfuch), has ordered a Meccano stadium in Brazil , which happened in Iquique. At first yesI planned to build it at Quinta Normal , but then it was thought in the vicinity of Las Torres with Américo Vespucio. However, neither plot materialized . The venue was to be called “José Miguel Carrera Stadium”, although it was known as “La Caldera Azul”.

Furthermore, the beams of the stadium have started to rust due to the salinity of Iquique added to the fact that they had to pay hospital costs, for which eventually the parts were sold for scrap .

4- Caren Lagoon

With the arrival of Azul Azul, the intention to build their own stadium grew. In 2014, Carlos Heller with the rector of the University of Chile announced that the project It was to be held on some grounds of the institution in Laguna Carén . However, due to the strong opposition of the residents of the sector, added to the fact that the said grounds were to be used for scientific purposes, it was never possible to advance in the sector.

This is in addition to the fact that after a few years an option was given to La Pintana, where Azul Azul had a promise to purchase, but which ultimately did not materialize.

By consulting Artificial Intelligence What would the Universidad de Chile stadium look like? the image maker who Microsoft implemented in Bing, based on Dall-E shows different speakers, some similar to those found in the United States or Europe with a capacity of more than 60,000 participants, as well as a roof and high technology.

While in other images, the stadiums are more like those that exist in several South American countries with a simple style and without much technological fanfare, similar to the Cilindro de Avellaneda of Racing de Argentina, or others that exist in the southern cone of America

To find out if these speakers generalized by Artificial Intelligence are possible to build in Chile, Christophe bathed architect of Forni & Fortes Arquitectos and professor at the University of Chile, said at the third :

—All of these sites can be made, as they do not present any architectural difficulty, in addition to the fact that the AI ​​uses real stadiums as references. I think there are scale issues, because there are images that come from European leagues that is to say gigantic, that They don’t give for a Chilean club Well, with luck, they would fill it once a year.

Paul Guerra civil builder and president of the Association of Civil Builders of the Catholic University, regarding the viability of these stadiums, underlined for The third What That would be no problem, but it depends on the resources available. architecture design and calculations consistent with AI designs.

For bathed the main problem is the monetary part, since costs increase the bigger the stadium , as would be the case if a roof covered the seats. Furthermore, Building an enclosure of these magnitudes is complex at the national level because of the high prices that exist when buying land in Santiago and that there are fewer and fewer places to build large buildings.

Considering this, War indicated that in the city there are no patterns for AI made stadiums due to the scale of them therefore the most feasible would be to do it on the outskirts of the metropolitan area . Added to this are the refusals that the creation of large enclosures may have on the part of neighbors.

For bathed he building a stadium on the outskirts of the city is not very viable since these high-capacity speakers they must have good connectivity and not rely solely on private vehicles that people use to get to the place or public transport which is very specific to certain municipalities, as is the case of Lampa, since they wouldn’t be attractive .

He says there are stadiums that are more inserted into the city, like La Bombonera in Argentina, but they are not large complexes, like the Nacional in Chile, which has a park that surrounds the site.

For him, The most feasible thing that can be built in Chile is AI-made image number 4 because the others, despite their realism, They are European club scale and not a Latin American reality Not even for a Chilean team.

Although this is a sensitive topic for the team’s fans, blue supporters hope the future venue will have the club’s identity . Gustavo Villafranca journalist and member of the Circle of Historians and Researchers of the University of Chile, reflects on the question of the stadium itself.

—When this topic is discussed in the media or Azul Azul does so publicly, It’s practically a topic that only serves to generate intimidation taunts of arch-rivals and when it sometimes leaves Azul Azul the fan feels that It is a clearance sale or a communication strategy that seeks to conceal poor administrative and sporting management .

As to whether these AI-generated stadiums represent the identity of the secular framework, Villafranca stressed “it is very important let the stadium take the colors of the club, which is blue first and white second . Red began to incorporate it in the late 90s, when the rivalry with Colo Colo returned and the fan’s identification with San Lorenzo de Almagro fans was also added.

In view of this, he adds that the AI-created stadiums overuse red, so one might think this is the site of Cerro Porteño or San Lorenzo itself and not from the University of Chile, since white does not appear as a secondary color.

He also points out that there is an absence of the chuncho, one of the most important symbols of the blues because it comes from the Club Náutico Universitario and is taken over by the University of Chile.

In the architectural part, he says: “It seems to me that there is a great absence of boxes . These They are a fundamental form of income for the construction of the stadium just like the projects of Atlético de Madrid or Estudiantes de La Plata”.

At this point, he added that it is a uniform grandstand construction and there is also no design that considers an exclusive grandstand for the visiting public and is separate from the local participants.

Regarding the name of the stadium in case of materialization of the sports complex of the University of Chile, points out that there should be no player name because despite the fact that many icons have passed through the life of the club, it would be unfair to carry only one . That’s why he would name it Stage of the romantic traveler since in addition to the chuncho, these words identify the team as mentioned in the anthem.