Melos Stylemaker

by | 25 May 2023 | Installations & Events, Schulen & Kindergärten, Slider

Melos Stylemaker

As you like

Melos

With EPDM granules, you can realise your own ideas for playground flooring – even online.

Now designers and builders can design their own floor coverings online instead of buying “off the shelf” as before.

It’s spring, the open-air season in kinder­gar­tens and day care centres as well as on our play­grounds and schoo­ly­ards has begun. Children love bright and colourful envi­ron­ments where they can play, romp, climb, run and try things out.
Fall protec­tion floor cove­rings lite­rally play a supporting role in this.

EPDM granules can be used to produce not only colourful but also crea­tive floor cove­rings for play­grounds and other surfaces.
Now desi­gners and buil­ders can design their own floor cove­rings online instead of buying “off the shelf” as before.
This is made possible by the Melos Style­maker app.

Supplier

Melos GmbH
Bismarck­strasse 4–10
49324 Melle, Germany

The app provides a large selection of motifs and colours to choose from. Another very popular feature is the option to upload and implement your own motifs to the app.

The Melos Style­maker App offers a simple way to design colourful and crea­tive fall protec­tion floor cove­rings. It can be used to design entire themed worlds such as a land of dino­saurs, a bobby car race­track or an alien galaxy.
The app provides a large selec­tion of motifs and colours to choose from. Another very popular feature is the option to upload and imple­ment your own motifs to the app.

The design process is fully auto­mated and ther­e­fore very cost-effec­tive. The motifs, whether from the templates or uploaded by the user, are cut out of EPDM sheets with a water jet and then deli­vered as a complete, finished product.

After applying a poly­ure­thane adhe­sive, they are glued to the substrate. When the adhe­sive has dried, the surroun­ding area is levelled with EPDM granules to create a flat surface into which the motifs are inte­grated.

The PU bonding agent is included in the scope of deli­very, as are the floor motifs made of coloured EPDM granules.

What used to be very time-consuming is now a fully automated process that leads to decidedly individual and popular results.

The Melos Style­maker App offers archi­tects and buil­ders, as well as play­school manage­ment teams, the chance to choose between the many options – or to design a unique floor cove­ring for them­selves, for example in work­shops with the children.
Orde­ring the desired motif via the app is simple and straight­for­ward. Experts are available to advise on the plan­ning of indi­vi­dual floor cove­rings.
What used to be very time-consuming is now a fully auto­mated process that leads to deci­dedly indi­vi­dual and popular results.

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Melos Style­maker

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Text

Johannes Bühl­be­cker
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Außenmühle sports ground

by | 17 Apr 2023 | Slider, Slider, Sports Grounds

Außenmühle sports ground in Hamburg

With its fingers on the pulse

Kilian + Kollegen Land­schafts­ar­chi­tekten

School sports, popular sports, individual offers – and all this in a harmonious atmosphere and a safe environment? That can work…

The Außenmühle sports ground will not only be available to the surrounding schools and for recreational sports, but will also take today’s changed sporting behaviour into account.

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Situa­tion

Kilian + co. land­scape archi­tects were commis­sioned by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to plan and imple­ment the reno­va­tion and recon­s­truc­tion of the Außen­mühle sports field in the Hamburg-Harburg district. The aim of the project is to offer the surroun­ding schools a better oppor­tu­nity to prac­tice physical educa­tion, and, at the same time, to open up the faci­lity for recrea­tional and popular sports. The use of the sports faci­lity by clubs should also continue to take place.

Another essen­tial design goal is the provi­sion of sports and other offers which take the changed sporting beha­viour of the target groups into account.

Goals

Previously, all there was on the Außen­mühle sports field was a large playing field and an oval-shaped track with a tennis surface . Due to the state of disre­pair of the drai­nage, the ground was constantly under water and was not playable. So the city of Hamburg decided to provide the large playing field with new drai­nage and to convert it into an arti­fi­cial grass pitch.

At the same time, the oval track, whose design is also outdated, will be replaced by a stan­dards-compliant 400-metre circular track. Both these and the segments are made from plastic.

 

In addi­tion, the range of athle­tics sports offers is being expanded. But above all, addi­tional exer­cise oppor­tu­ni­ties are being created for all gene­ra­tions.

Another plan­ning goal is to improve the access situa­tion: new entrances are being created and the exis­ting ones are being upgraded.

Architect

Kilian + Kollegen Land­schafts­ar­chi­tekten
Büro für Frei­raum- und Sport­stät­ten­pla­nung
Thea­ter­wall 24
D — 26122 Olden­burg

Client

Freie und Hanse­stadt Hamburg

The new Außenmühle sports ground takes our changed sporting behaviour into account. This is most evident in the curve segments.

The new Außen­mühle sports ground takes very conscious account of our changed sporting beha­viour and of the chan­ging demands on today’s sports grounds. This is most evident in the two curve segments, because here athle­tics instal­la­tions using the tradi­tional cons­truc­tion method are being deli­bera­tely left out.

Instead, a small playing field measu­ring 22m x 44m, which can be used for basket­ball, hand­ball and foot­ball, will be created in the nort­hern plastic segment. The small playing field is high­lighted by a light blue shade. Addi­tional white lines and two floor markings in the edge area allow for a crea­tive and varied game.

Addi­tional exer­cise faci­li­ties are planned in the southern segment, inclu­ding a calis­the­nics system and parkour. The calis­the­nics system consists of diffe­rent bars in diffe­rent heights and posi­tions, which can be used for func­tional trai­ning with one’s own body weight.

The parkour faci­lity has various concrete elements for runs and trai­ning sessions. Both faci­li­ties are desi­gned so that they can be combined. In addi­tion, there are four tram­po­lines lined up for diffe­rent jumps.

The segment is covered with a bulk-coated plastic surface and visually divided by two diffe­rent shades of blue. The red sprint track stands out. In areas where fall protec­tion is required, the subs­truc­ture is desi­gned accor­dingly.

In order to ensure parallel use, ball catch fences with a height of 4m are installed between the segments and the playing field.

Address

Außen­mühle sports ground
Vinzen­zweg 20
D — 21077 Hamburg

Opening

2023

The large playing field will be converted into an artificial grass pitch.

Arti­fi­cial grass pitch

The large playing field will be converted into an arti­fi­cial grass pitch.

The cons­truc­tion of the arti­fi­cial grass pitch is based on the requi­re­ments of the rele­vant DIN stan­dards and on the current buil­ding foun­da­tion report. Follo­wing the prin­ci­ples of sustaina­bi­lity, the exis­ting buil­ding mate­rials of the old base layers are being preserved and supple­mented. 

 

This is followed by the produc­tion of the tarpaulin, the crea­tion of a new drai­nage system and the instal­la­tion of a sand-filled arti­fi­cial turf cove­ring on an elastic base layer.

A sand-filled plastic lawn is chosen as the playing field cove­ring, which is circum­fe­ren­ti­ally bordered with a mould groove on the longi­tu­dinal sides and edging panels on the end sides.

 

The marking of the foot­ball field is done with 12 cm-wide white lines. Two playing fields are marked for youth foot­ball. The lines are incor­po­rated into the arti­fi­cial grass to create a lasting sports faci­lity.

Two stan­dard foot­ball goals and four youth goals are planned for the foot­ball field.

Athle­tics faci­li­ties

The exis­ting oval-shaped tennis track will be converted into a plastic arena based on Type C, with two circular tracks and four 100 m sprint tracks. The markings of the faci­lity comply with inter­na­tional stan­dards.

The long-jump pit is located in the exten­sion of the sprint tracks. The race­ways are alter­na­tely coloured in two diffe­rent shades of blue.

The Außenmühle sports ground will be opened in late summer 2023. We’re looking forward to it!

Access

To improve access to the sports faci­lity, the exis­ting entrance will be upgraded and two new entrances will be desi­gned on the Außen­müh­len­damm. Access will be via a stair­case or barrier-free via the running track running diago­nally along the embank­ment.

In order to secure the paths within the sports faci­lity, the areas around the running track will be paved.

Beach area

The large sandy area north of the sprint tracks towards the north acts not only as a long jump pit, but also for beach sports. Seating faci­li­ties are being created on the adja­cent lawns.

Children’s games

Oppo­site the beach area, another sandy area is created with low playing elements such as wooden bollards and balan­cing beams. A clim­bing and balan­cing course inte­grates the exis­ting embank­ment and offers an exci­ting playing expe­ri­ence.

Opening

To protect the faci­lity from vanda­lism, it remains comple­tely fenced. The entrances are secured by gates of various widths.

The costs for the reno­va­tion and conver­sion of the Außen­mühle sports ground amount to a good three million euros.

The faci­lity will be opened in the summer of 2023. We’re looking forward to it!

Photos

Kilian + Kollegen Land­schafts­ar­chi­tekten Oliver Berkhausen

Text

Johannes Bühl­be­cker
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Ariake Gymnastics Centre

by | 21 Dec 2021 | Slider, Slider, Sports Centres, Sports Halls

The Ariake Gymnastics Centre

Nutshell

Nikken Sekkei Ltd

The Ariake Gymnastics Centre offers a very large space in timber frame construction with an exceptionally harmonious atmosphere.

The Ariake Gymnastics Centre is designed to function in two phases; initially as a Olympic sports facility, it will be converted into a permanent exhibition hall.

The Ariake Gymnastics Centre is desi­gned to func­tion in two phases; initi­ally as a tempo­rary inter­na­tional sports compe­ti­tion faci­lity, then, after taking out the tempo­rary spec­tator stands, it will be converted into a perma­nent exhi­bi­tion hall.

A unique feature of this faci­lity is its exten­sive and gene­rous use of timber throug­hout the buil­ding. This is a posi­tive realiza­tion of “wooded faci­li­ties” and “sustaina­bi­lity” announced in the Tokyo 2020 candi­dacy file. The mate­rial was also selected to express the memory of this district which was once a timber storage pond.

Based on the archi­tec­tural concept of “a wooden vessel floa­ting in the bay area,” timber is used wherever possible, speci­fi­cally in the roof frame struc­ture, facade, spec­tator seats, exte­rior walls, etc. while carefully conside­ring the charac­te­ristics of wood in each appli­ca­tion.
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Function, structure, and space are tightly combined to achieve beauty and richness in simplicity, which is the essence of Japanese traditional wood architecture.

The arena ceiling is a wood frame struc­ture desi­gned to reduce the weight of the overall struc­ture. The concourse space, where spec­ta­tors approach the arena, is inten­tio­nally placed outdoors. The wood facade takes into account acou­stic and thermal insu­la­tion proper­ties.

Func­tion, struc­ture, and space are tightly combined to achieve beauty and rich­ness in simpli­city, which is the essence of Japa­nese tradi­tional wood archi­tec­ture that we hope spec­ta­tors and athletes from all over the world will expe­ri­ence.  

The site is located in the midst of a vast, wide-open land­scape along a canal. Yet the design also needed to take into account the resi­den­tial envi­ron­ment of the medium-rise and high-rise condo­mi­nium buil­dings in the vici­nity. The hori­zon­tally long and flowing lines were achieved by keeping the buil­ding height as low as possible, redu­cing the overall volume and control­ling the height of the eaves.

Lightening the weight of the structure by using wood for the roof is effective for buildings constructed on sites with poor soil conditions.

By posi­tio­ning the circu­la­tion concourse on the outside of the buil­ding and crea­ting an open and broad approach space, the design attempts to avoid the impene­trable exte­rior typi­cally found on large-scale sports faci­li­ties created by the mono­li­thic walls.

Ligh­tening the weight of the struc­ture by using wood for the roof is effec­tive for buil­dings cons­tructed on sites with poor soil condi­tions. In this project, we adopted a simple struc­ture that uses single members of large glued lami­nated timber with high heat capa­city, rather than trusses consis­ting of a number of small members, to achieve both fire resis­tance perfor­mance and struc­tural stabi­lity.

Japan’s first complex struc­tural system using Timber Beam Strings Struc­ture and Canti­lever Trusses created a large wood-frame space that dyna­mi­cally covers the arena.

Project data

Architects

Nikken Sekkei Ltd
Shimizu Corpo­ra­tion

Client

The Tokyo Orga­ni­sing Committee of the Olympic and Para­lympic Games

Address

Ariake Gymnastics Centre
1 Chome-10–1 Ariake,
Koto City
Tokyo 135‑0063
Japan

Opening

2020

Photograph

Ken’ichi Suzuki
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Author

Nikken Sekkei Ltd

 

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