Es Puig d’en Valls

by | 20 Nov 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Let the sunshine in

Es Puig d’en Valls Sports Centre

OMCEA Arqui­tec­tura

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Essence

The project of the Es Puig d’en Valls Sports Centre was conceived in two distinct phases. The first consisted of the covering of the two existing outdoor courts, the second was the design and realization of the enclosure of its perimeter.

During the realization of the first phase, MCEA Arquitectura received the brief for the design of the enclosure. The main design goal was to achieve an element of fusion between the interior and its broader setting, so as not to lose the essence of the outdoor space for the practice of sports, which had been used as such by teams from Es Puig d’en Valls for years.

Shades of colour

Indeed, it was during the implementation of the first phase of Es Puig d’en Valls Sports Centre that the architects discovered the intensity of the shades of colour that the sun projected onto the building from first light of dawn (due to the absence of obstacles to the east) until dusk. For this reason, the introduction of these fleeting tones of natural light into the newly defined space became a fundamental element of the project, giving continuity in time to the sporting essence of the existing space, which previously was completely open.

Six surfaces

To define the relationship of permanent change between the interior and exterior, MCEA Arquitectura worked with the building’s six surfaces: the ground, introducing a blue colour so evident in the Balearic landscape, the ceiling, of corrugated aluminium, with a reflective capacity providing a fusion of all elements in the development, and the four walls. The walls are materialized through the combination of blind panel walls and lattice walls of 24 cm, exposed white brick with sufficient permeability to allow for the compositional overlapping of two opposing facades and the introduction of the colours of the environment as part of the composition of each of these.

Facades

On the western facade, the lattice panels are aligned according to the horizontal line marked by the stream that runs alongside the building. The eastern facade breaks this linearity to allow for a reflection of the broken lines of the mountainous horizon beyond. The southern facade, which provides the main access, incorporates a lattice fabric in a continuous state of changing colours, and as such constitutes the most representative element of the whole plot. The material selected for the lattice (white open brick), as well as providing notable nuances of colour according to the sun’s position, these ranging from ochre at certain hours of the day to pure whites, allows for the inclusion of a 24cm thick wall which greatly inhibits the entry of water into the enclosure, even in adverse weather conditions.

A close relationship

As a result seeking a close relationship between interior and exterior, the building is able to take full advantage of the prevailing climatic conditions, in order to attain a system of ventilation and natural lighting, and which leads to a level of energy consumption close to zero.

PROJECT DATA

Architect

MCEA | Arqui­tec­tura
Avda. Teni­ente Monte­sinos, 8, Bajo. 30100
Murcia
Spanien

Client

City of Es Puig d’en Valls

Project team

Struc­ture: QL Inge­niería
Surveying: María José González Vicente
Execu­tion Manage­ment: José María López Llaquet
Buil­ding company: TECOPSA

Address

Es Puig D’en Valls.
Santa Eulària des Riu
Ibiza
Spain

Aerial view

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Opening

2017

Author

MCEA | Arqui­tec­tura

Photograph

David Frutos
Foto­grafía de Arqui­tec­tura

PHOTOGRAPHS

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Streetmekka

by | 29 Oct 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Sports meets culture

Street­mekka in Viborg

EFFEKT

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About

Streetmekka is a new cultural destination offering a wide variety of facilities for self-organized sports like parkour, skate, bouldering, basketball, trial as well as a series of customized workshop areas for music production, DJ’ing, an animation studio, fabrication lab and various artist studios and wood and metal workshops.

Social spaces and informal meeting areas are distributed throughout the building and strategically interwoven in-between primary functions based on the notion that proximity to activities lower the threshold for participation.

Abandoned

The original building once served as a windmill factory and is a typical example of one of the many mass-produced warehouse or factory buildings from the late 1960’s and 70’s found in almost every suburban industrial zone in the western world. Constructed from prefabricated concrete panels or corrugated steel, these industrial leftovers are perceived as having little or negligible historic, cultural and architectural value.

Instead of taking the traditional approach and demolishing the leftover building EFFEKT wanted to explore how to re-use and re-program this type of insig­nificant and mostly introverted building typology in a qualitative way and at a very limited budget?

‘However uninteresting and grey the exterior of these boxes appear, they often contain an impressive interior space of magnificent scale and almost cathedral-like proportions based on a repetitive, neatly arranged structural system. To us this vast space posed the only true value of the building – and we wanted to expose and highlight this to the outside world.’ says Tue Foged, Partner at EFFEKT.

Approach

The approach was simply to remove the walls at both ends of the building and to place all the administrative functions and workshop spaces on one side of the existing structure and the skate-areas on the other side, leaving the internal former manufacturing space intact. This clear re-organization also equips the building with a completely new envelope and exterior and allows the architects to pull in more daylight through the two new glass facades while improving the connectivity to the exterior spaces and activities.

With many vacated industrial sites being incorporated in urban expansion, this approach may be replicated and can pave the way for the revitalization of many other disregarded buildings left to deteriorate or facing demolition. New neighborhoods can benefit from these industrial heritage markers to build identity and sense of place.

Individualized alternatives

The functional goal of the new Streetmekka is to create a series of functional spaces for sports, cultural and social purposes arranged in a highly complex programmatic network. The aim is to meet the increasing demand for self-organized and individualized alternatives to the established club-sports and cultural activities, supporting GAME’s mission to attract local youth and create lasting social change through street-sports and culture, enabling integration and empowering them in their future lives.

Targeting a broad demographic audience from across a variety of cultural backgrounds, gender, age and interests, the architects’ goal was to create an open and welcoming building, lowering the threshold for involvement and engagement. This was achieved this by making a transparent building with a clear, well-defined organization intuitive to everyone. An anti-elitist, pop-culture take on a hybrid between a sports facility and a culture house, that is robust enough to stay open to the public 24 hours day without supervision and where the users are in charge and take initiative.

Evolve with the users

The new Streetmekka 2.0 is for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you want to participate, create, hang out or observe – there is a designated space for everything and everyone. The idea of expanding the original program to include so many different types of activity under the same roof is based on the notion that co-existence breeds new synergies and new social relations. Additionally, it exposes visitors to new types of activity they might never have realized existed, encouraging future engagement.

The maker labs and workshop areas enable the users to continuously develop and reconfigure the facility. Streetmekka Viborg is not static in terms of program nor in physical appearance. It will continue to evolve with the users – both short term (due to the animated facades and the street-art) as well as long term (when new programs are added, and old ones removed).

Indoor streetscape

The architectural concept is based upon the idea of an indoor streetscape. The project opens the introverted industrial building and transforms the impressive central factory space into a new kind of interior space: a covered streetscape open to the outside.  The streetscape concept is used to define and organize the various functions and place them in relation to specific requirements, such as spatial quality, daylight, materiality and temperature zones.

The new volume is then wrapped with a functional translucent polycarbonate skin, giving the appearance of a light and welcoming building while also serving as a giant canvas for the local visual artists to display and project their art but also clearly differentiates the building from the surrounding industrial facilities. Streetmekka in Viborg is the first lot to be transformed in the new neighborhood and will work as a catalyst for city life in the upcoming area.

The surrounding landscape becomes the natural extension of the indoor surface with various street-sports and cultural functions placed in a recreational string of greenery connecting the site to the downtown area through a future pedestrian and bicycle path.

One third

The preservation of the original structure and the reuse and upcycling of materials made it possible to carry out the refurbishment at a very low expense. Many of the original components were also repurposed as furniture elements for the parkour activities and hang-out spaces. The final costs of the building are approximately one third of a traditional sports hall.

PROJECT DATA

Architect

EFFEKT
BLÅGÅRDSGADE 8 2 SAL
DK-2200 KØBENHAVN

Client

Viborg Kommune and GAME

with finan­cial support from Reald­ania, Lokale- & Anlægs­fonden, Tryg­Fonden and Nordea­Fonden

Team

Luke Jouppi, Lars Pedersen, Jona­than Linde, Copen­hagen Bould­e­ring, Nørlum
BOGL land­scape
Rambøll
Thomas Andersen A/S

Opening

2018

Address

GAME Street­mekka Viborg
Nellik­evej 2
DK — 8800 Viborg

Aerial view

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Photography

© EFFEKT / Rasmus Hjortshøj Illus­tra­tions: © EFFEKT

Author

Effekt

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PLANS

VIDEOS

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Dashte Noor fitness gym

by | 15 Mar 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Let’s get physical

Dashte Noor fitness gym

Dashte Noor fitness gym is one of the public buil­dings of Dashte noor resi­den­tial, recrea­tional complex in nort­hern Iran. The client’s main demands were two sepa­rate halls, being coor­di­nated with the other parts of the complex while being a unique mass. As a result the concept was, desig­ning a buil­ding with a dynamic mass which is an inte­gral and a part of the surroun­ding land­scape.

The main sky line of this site is made of forest, green hills and a blue sky. Ther­e­fore, the mass of Dashte Noor fitness gym moves from the ground very softly and reaches the sky. Having a peak in the form somehow memo­rizes the libe­ra­tion of the spirit, energy and also the connec­tion between the earth and the sky.

Architect

Narges Nassiri

Team

Mohsen Ghomi, Mohammad reza Mosavi, Keyvan Amidpoor

Client

Dashte Noor

Author

Narges Nassiri

Photograph

Shahriyar Mazaheri

Address

Mazandaran
Iran
Ground plans

The idea of desig­ning a full length window facing the sky was to frame a reflec­tion of it and also having an orien­ta­tion towards light. Desig­ning a skin which moves on the mass and selec­ting wood as the main mate­rial of the facade makes the buil­ding closer to nature.

Dashte Noor fitness gym is located in a site with an area about 745m². The ground floor is about 235sqm which includes the lobby, a body­buil­ding hall, bath­rooms, chan­ging rooms and a bar. The first floor is about 170 m² inclu­ding another hall, bath­rooms, chan­ging rooms and another bar and a place to sit and rest.

 

The main concept of the inte­rior design was to create a space which reflects and gives the feeling of the whole mass and the exte­rior form while doing exer­cise inside the gym. The cons­truc­tion of the buil­ding are the two walls which face east and west and are both huge trestles which move with the curve and pull the 9 meter canti­lever in the entrance. The two arch walls in the entrance and under the canti­lever help to asso­ciate the main idea of rising from the ground towards the sky.

Dunalastair British School gymnasium

by | 15 Mar 2018 | Schulen & Kindergärten, Sports Halls

More than elegant

Dunalastair British School gymnasium

Dunalastair

Dunalas­tair British School gymna­sium has been included as part of the complex of the Dunalas­tair British School in Sant­iago, Chile, located in the Commu­nity of Peña­lolén, which is charac­te­rized for being a tradi­tional, slightly urba­nized rural area.

Mrs. Ada Crew founded Dunalas­tair (Alexander’s Fort) in 1937, as a bilin­gual school that offered a British type of educa­tion. The School’s name is taken from the once resi­dence, and still burial ground of the chiefs of Clan Donnachaidh, in Perthshire, Scot­land. The clan is one of Scotland’s oldest, and dates back to the time of Scot­tish unifi­ca­tion. Its name (Sons of Duncan) can be traced back to the king that, in Shake­spearean lore at least, was murdered by Macbeth. The clan’s motto, Virtutis Gloria Merces, has been the School’s since its foun­da­tion, and means glory is the reward for valour.

Program

The working plan of Dunalas­tair British School gymna­sium consists in desig­ning and deve­lo­ping a buil­ding dedi­cated mainly to indoor sport acti­vi­ties but also suitable for cultural events such as concerts and stage plays. The whole project, tota­ling an exten­sion of  22,300 sq. ft.,  will encom­pass a multi acti­vity field with blea­chers for 300 spec­ta­tors, dres­sing rooms, storage rooms and an infir­mary.

The gymna­sium has been built in a piece of land with a 7% slope which, conside­ring the size of the cons­truc­tion, results in a considerable diffe­rence in level.  For this reason, it has been decided to sink the cons­truc­tion to mini­mize the volu­metric impact in rela­tion with the surroun­ding land­scape.

Architect

Dumay Arqui­tectos
Patricio Schmidt C.
Alejandro Dumay C.

Team

María Pía Salas O., Manuel Gumucio P., Cristián Tello S.

Client

Dunalastair British School

Opening

2013

Author

Dumay Arquitectos

Photograph

AryehKornfeld K.

Address

Av. Quilín 8669
Penalolen, Peñalolén
Región Metropolitana
Chile

Aerial view

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Construction

Dunalas­tair British School gymna­si­um­con­sists of two concrete volumes (invested with bricks) at each end,  making up the most hermetic space of the struc­ture, holding the stage, toilets and storage rooms at one end, and the dres­sing rooms at the other end.  A lighter struc­ture in between, holding the play­ground and blea­chers, is totally acces­sible from the school.

Light

One of the main objec­tives is to allow natural light to infil­trate all the premises, thus redu­cing energy consump­tion to a minimum.  This has been accom­plished by diffe­rent ceiling levels, using metal trusses 6.5 feet tall by 92 feet in length as dormers. The resul­ting geometry of this struc­ture improves the acou­stics of the space and, at the same time, provides a greater spatial ampli­tude.

Acoustics

Due to the multi-purpose use of Dunalas­tair British School gymna­sium it was neces­sary to improve the insu­la­tion and acou­stics of the premises by using an inte­rior finis­hing with MDF boards, veneered with natural wood, in 2 diffe­rent formats:   a) On the ceiling, through the original modu­la­tion of the manu­fac­turer in 6 x 100 inches strips, 1” apart,  lined with an acou­stic insu­la­tion fabric in the inner side, in order to reduce reso­nance, and   b) on the walls, 2 x 4 feet panels drilled with holes of diffe­rent diame­ters that would let the light get through, with the same acou­stic objec­tive but aimed to simu­late an inte­rior vegetal land­scape as well, ther­e­fore provi­ding an atmo­sphere connected to nature.
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Dolní Břežany Sports Hall

by | 15 Mar 2018 | Sports Halls

Landed

Dolní Břežany Sports Hall

Dolní Břežany

Having under­gone radical changes in the last few years, Dolní Břežany is a modern and attrac­tive place for living. The muni­ci­pa­lity has been very active in culti­vating the public space in the long term and archi­tec­ture and town plan­ning aspects are a major focus when conside­ring new projects. The primary school complex adjoi­ning the sports hall has also under­gone a major refur­bish­ment and exten­sion; the sports hall is its further deve­lo­p­ment stage. The Břežany School has obtained a new space for physical educa­tion; the hall is used by local sports clubs and by the general public in the evenings for recrea­tional sports. The gene­rous dimen­sions of the inte­rior make the venue suitable for cultural and social events.

Concept

The buil­ding is situated on the edge of a built-up area, in the center of a large deve­lo­p­ment zone. An attrac­tive archi­tec­tural concept – a spatial rota­tional ellip­soid form – is a response to both current requi­re­ments and an unknown future. The inau­gu­ra­tion and opera­tion of the hall can serve as a stimulus and inspi­ra­tion for the further growth of the muni­ci­pa­lity, which is why the connec­tion to the surroun­dings and the public space is as important as the natural link with the primary school.

Architect

sporadical
Václavská 2068/14
120 00  Praha 2
Czech Republic

Team

Aleš Kubalík, Josef Kocián, Jakub Našinec, Veronika Sávová

Client

Community of Dolní Břežany,
5. Května 76
Dolní Břežany
Czech Republic

Aerial view

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Author

sporadical 

Photograph

Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice               

Opening

2017

Construction costs

5.000.000 €
Site plan
Ground plan
Cross section

Shape

The hall has a rounded, smooth and abstract shape. The dome draws the scale closer to humans, the metallic surface mirrors the surroun­dings, while the borders of the sky and of the roof remain blurred. The buil­ding camou­flages its real dimen­sions and looks smaller than it is in reality. The wide stair­case in front of the hall, embedded into the terrain like the buil­ding itself, delineates the public space and creates a natural amphi­theater.

Integration

While the exte­rior distin­gu­ishes the sports hall from the school, the inte­rior blends with it using a combi­na­tion of white and grey surfaces and solid timber. The inte­rior layout reflects the surroun­dings. The entrance for the visi­tors is perpen­di­cular to the street and the parking lot, the west facing sliding window with a view of the town provides a connec­tion with the school yard, and the east facing window is a peek into the future. The hall is inte­grated into the school by means of a walkway.

Sports hall

The heart of the hall is a sports surface of 45 × 25 meters, of 8–9 meters in height, verti­cally divided into three parts using mobile blinds. Each of the thirds fits a volley­ball court; the divi­sion makes it possible to run three PE classes in parallel. The chan­ging rooms with sani­tary faci­li­ties are situated on the school side, on the ground floor, and wall bars divide them from the sports area; the machine room and offices are on the first floor. On the audi­ence side, there is a grand­stand for 250 spec­ta­tors, located above storage rooms for sports equip­ment and other faci­li­ties. A gangway connec­ting the two parts of the grand­stand over­looks an open vesti­bule with a snack bar, also an important space. The Les kanců graphic design studio desi­gned an original signage system for the sports hall, consis­ting of picto­grams and numbers hand-painted directly on the walls made of archi­tec­tural concrete.
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European School of Strasbourg sports centre

by | 14 Mar 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Sports for the whole of Europe

European School of Strasbourg sports centre

Strasbourg

Stras­bourg has had the status of Euro­pean capital since 1948. It is the seat of the Euro­pean Parlia­ment and the Euro­pean Court of Human Rights. The city’s autho­ri­ties quite natu­rally decided to a propose an educa­tional offer desi­gned to meet the expec­ta­tions of the Euro­pean and inter­na­tional civil servants working in the city by crea­ting a Euro­pean school. The school’s educa­tional model, based on a multi­cul­tural approach, wide use of diffe­rent languages, and emphasis on both children’s auto­nomy and parents’ invol­vement, covers a full school curri­culum, from nursery school right through to the Euro­pean baccalau­reate.

Robertsau

The Euro­pean School of Stras­bourg sports centre is located in the leafy neigh­bour­hood of the Robertsau, near the Euro­pean and inter­na­tional insti­tu­tions. The school has nearly one thousand pupils and, to meet its requi­re­ments and those of local resi­dents, the muni­cipal autho­ri­ties in Stras­bourg decided to build an open sports centre. The programme called for the crea­tion of a multi-sport hall and a multi-purpose hall capable of serving as a venue for events not invol­ving sport.

Architect

Dominique Coulon & associés
13 rue de la Tour des Pêcheurs
67000 Strasbourg
France

Team

Dominique Coulon, Benjamin Rocchi
Thibaut Muller, Fanny Liénart, David Romero-Uzeda

Author

Dominique Coulon & associés

Client

Ville de Strasbourg

Construction costs

4.300.000 €

Opening

2017

Aerial view

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Address

9 rue Peter Schwarber
67000 Strasbourg
France

Photograph

Eugeni Pons, David Romero-Uzeda
Ground plans & Site plan

Building

Beyond the actual archi­tec­tural and func­tional quali­ties of Euro­pean School of Stras­bourg sports centre, the buil­ding creates a balance and estab­lishes a dialogue with the Euro­pean school. It prolongs the logic of the frag­ments already used for the school buil­ding. The volumes of the two halls are disso­ciated and angled, which makes it possible to set the larger hall in an ideal posi­tion: perpen­di­cular to the street, on the nort­hern edge of the site, its posi­tion mini­mises the building’s impact on the site. The full depth of the site is used; the shorter side of the buil­ding gives onto the street, making it more porous in rela­tion to the land­scape.

Entrance

The entrance hall is trans­pa­rent, allo­wing sight from the fore­court through to the wood at the back of the site. The elements of the programme form a crown, with chan­ging rooms and other premises surroun­ding the two halls and provi­ding views both to the outside and among them­selves.

Photographs

Materials

Euro­pean School of Stras­bourg sports centre makes careful use of rough, durable mate­rials: archi­tec­tonic concrete, galva­nised steel, glass and linoleum. The multi-sports hall plays on the grey shades of these mate­rials.

Light

Euro­pean School of Stras­bourg sports centre is orien­tated north/south, which is the best way to control natural light, while large expanses of poly­car­bo­nate provide and disperse gentle, even light throug­hout the hall, with no risk of dazz­ling or incon­ve­ni­en­cing users. Parti­cular atten­tion has also been paid to the acou­stic: up to a person’s height, the walls are faced with perfo­rated coloured MDF panels, and the entire ceiling has been treated. Duck­board panels in galva­nised steel placed between the beams create a meshed false ceiling: the tech­nical elements are protected, while the lamps are able to illu­mi­nate the hall.

The warmth of the oak

The square multi-purpose hall is desi­gned to contrast with the rest of the buil­ding. The varnished oak parquet floor laid in a checker­board pattern curves upwards at the wall, and the upper part of the walls are flocked with acou­stic plaster. The coffered ceiling repeats the checker­board design of the floor. The entire double height of the hall is coloured dark green, enhan­cing the warmth of the oak.

Variations in grey

Depen­ding on the light, the varia­tions in grey featured in the project range from milky and rough to trans­pa­rent and reflec­ting: percep­tion evolves as the day draws on, setting up a valuable dialogue with nature. The presence of plants and the resul­ting quality of the light lend a precious elegance to the spaces.

Sundbyoster Hall II

by | 18 Feb 2018 | Sports Halls

The Amager Sandwich

Sundbyoster Hall II in Copenhagen

Vividly stacked

With a super­market on the ground floor, a sports hall on first and apart­ments with private atrium terraces on the top floor, Dorte Mandrup has created an unda­unted bespoke solu­tion for a dense and complex city envi­ron­ment of Copen­hagen. Sund­by­øster Hall II is an archi­tec­tural 3‑in‑1 solu­tion. Each of the func­tions is expressed by a unique use of mate­rials, all part of the coll­ec­tive collage. After night­fall, the pleated red-golden wooden facade will appear to be glowing due to the esca­ping lights from the vertical ribbon windows reflec­ting on the warm tinted wood. At daytime, the ribbon windows let a plea­sant reflected daylight into the buil­ding.

SH2-Sund­by­oster Hall II is mixed use archi­tec­ture inte­gra­ting grocery store, sports hall and housing units in one buil­ding located in the district of Amager in Copen­hagen, Denmark. It is a visio­nary solu­tion for buil­ding in dense and compli­cated city envi­ron­ments.

Ground plans

Level O: Grocery store and parking
Level 1: Sports hall and changing rooms
Level 3: Void above sports hall
Level 4: Apartments

Multifunctional sports hall

The ground floor contains a grocery store and an entrance for the sports hall, parking and apart­ments. A double height glass façade on the second floor ensures pede­strians and neigh­bours a direct view of the acti­vi­ties in the sports hall. It creates a connec­tion between the buil­ding and the surroun­ding city. The hall is open to public, spans over two floors and is highly adap­table to diffe­rent types and sizes of events and sports. It is also used by a nearby school.

Architect

Dorte Mandrup A/S
Vesterbrogade 95A
4th. Floor
DK-1620 Copenhagen V

Client

City of Copenhagen

Author

Dorte Mandrup A/S

Photograph

Adam Mørk
Jens Larsen (1)

Address

Sundbyøster Pl.
DK-2300 København S

Aerial view

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Opening

2015

Living space on top

12 apart­ments make the top of the buil­ding with an alumi­nium covered bay window from floor to ceiling and each contai­ning its own private atrium and rooftop terrace. The cons­truc­tion neces­sary for the large span of the sports hall is cleverly used as sepa­ra­ting walls between the apart­ments. The apart­ments are an alter­na­tive to the classic villas and contri­bute to a diverse demo­gra­phic compo­si­tion in the area. In this way the complex programme of the buil­ding both adds to and inte­grates exis­ting func­tions of the neigh­bour­hood.

The other blockbuster

Sund­by­øster Hall II is located on the corner between Parma­gade and Amager­bro­gade, a traffic artery from the city centre to the southern suburbs of the Danish capital. In a district used as a dormi­tory town with a high demand for living space, this buil­ding offers more than just that. Its program­matic and archi­tec­tural quali­ties make Sund­by­øster Hall II a special attrac­tion of the district, an urban land­mark.

By the way, Sund­by­øster Hall II is not the sequel to a martial arts block­buster, but only the name of the district in which this buil­ding is located. But it already is a hit in the mixed use genre: SH2-Sund­by­oster Hall II is the winner of the WAN Award for best Mixed-Use buil­ding in 2015. The inter­na­tional archi­tec­ture prize awards the most effec­tive and original mixed-use projects world­wide.

Photographs

Sports hall

Exterior views

Apartments

Drawings

Ladies Sports Centre Doha

by | 8 Feb 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Women and Society

Ladies Sports Centre Doha

Fenwick Iribarren Archi­tects has won an inter­na­tional compe­ti­tion orga­nized by the Qatar Olympic Committee to design a Proto­type for Ladies Sports Centre Doha which, when deve­loped as a single buil­ding, could then be built in a number of diffe­rent neigh­bor­hoods within Doha, Qatar. Ladies Sports Centre Doha has been desi­gned to serve as a Social cata­lyst for Fami­lies, Women and Society uses in the diffe­rent areas in which the buil­dings will be placed.

The buil­ding has an external circular protec­tive shell wall around the diffe­rent internal sports and support acti­vi­ties struc­tured facing a free flowing glazed patio brin­ging ample natural light to the building’s inte­rior.

The exte­rior wall is perfo­rated with openings which give light to a circular jogging track on a mezza­nine around the buil­ding, and which is inte­grated into the protec­tive wall.

The inte­rior of Ladies Sports Centre Doha is treated as a small urban town, or a sports village, where diffe­rent uses are located within urban “boxes,” and joined toge­ther by “streets” and “plazas”, all focused on to the curved central patio space, the true heart of the project.

The program of the uses within the buil­ding have been deve­loped to inte­grate sports and family values, being a desti­na­tion for ladies and their children, and where they can remain for a healthy break in their days acti­vi­ties.

The program includes sports faci­li­ties such as a swim­ming pool, multi-use sports hall and gymna­sium, toge­ther with other social acti­vi­ties inclu­ding social club, nursery, games and TV rooms. The flexi­bi­lity of use of Ladies Sports Centre Doha allows possi­bi­li­ties to carry out diffe­rent family events as well as a social meeting point in the Qatari society.

Architect

Fenwick Iribarren Architects
Campus Empresarial Arbea
Avda. de Fuencarral 5, Edificio 2 — Planta Baja
ES-28108 Alcobendas, Madrid

Client

Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC)

Author

Fenwick Iribarren Architects
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Ku.Be

by | 7 Feb 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Come together!

KuBe House of Culture and Movement in Copenhagen

A new typology

The 3,200 m² Ku.Be House of Culture in Move­ment was desi­gned for the muni­ci­pa­lity of Frede­riks­berg as a focal point for both the imme­diate commu­nity and also the wider area of Copen­hagen; one that the people them­selves could take owner­ship of and that would evolve its programme based on the specific wants and needs of its users. The project is a new typo­logy, deve­loped out of the response to a brief that solely asked for a buil­ding that would bring people toge­ther and improve the quality of life. In reply MVRDV and ADEPT answered with one that blends theatre, sport and lear­ning into a space where body and mind are acti­vated to promote a more healthy life for ever­yone, regard­less of age, ability or inte­rest; crea­ting links between people that wouldn’t other­wise connect with each other.

Encourage the unexpected

The six primary volumes which make up Ku.Be, each with their own programme, are clad in a unique colour and mate­rial, clearly defi­ning them within the buil­ding; from outside these shapes are hinted at in the frag­mented tile façade. “We desi­gned Ku.Be to encou­rage the unex­pected,” explains MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs. “Larger volumes are suited to hold perfor­mances or public meetings, smaller ones can be for exhi­bi­tions or debates. The fast-pace rooms are perfect for dance, or parkour; and zen rooms give you the contrast of yoga or medi­ta­tion. It’s between these volumes where the real fun will happen though; spaces where we hint at a use, but which will become enti­rely user-defined.”

Architect

MVRDV bv
Achterklooster 7
NL — 3011 RA Rotterdam
ADEPT
Struenseegade 15A, 4.
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Landschaftsarchitekten
SLA
Njalsgade 17B
Pakhus 2, 3.sal
DK 2300 København

Team

Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries Fokke Moerel, Mette Rasmussen, Julius Kirchert, Klaas Hofman, Francisco Pomares, Armor Gutierrez Rivas, Buster Christensen, Attilio Ranieri, Chris Green, Kate van Heusen, Henryk Struski, Emanuela Gioffreda, Raymond van den Broek, Sanne van der Burgh, Karl Johan Nyquist, Maria Lopez, Kasper Albrektsen

Movement

The route through the buil­ding focuses on deve­lo­ping and encou­ra­ging alter­nate forms of move­ment. The Laby­rinth gets people on their hands and knees clim­bing through a three dimen­sional network of cubes from the second to third floors; or alter­na­tively they could take the Mouse­trap, a vertical maze. A net which spans several floors throug­hout the buil­ding, lets users climb up from floor to floor – suspended over the voids – and slides and fireman poles offer a fast way to get back down. “In Ku.Be we tried to turn your average expe­ri­ence of a buil­ding on its head,” tells ADEPT co-founder Martin Krogh. “What would other­wise be a simple, mind­less journey through the buil­ding turns into an explo­ra­tion and disco­very of move­ment. Here it’s you that defines the route, however you want: clim­bing, sliding, craw­ling … jumping.” To cater for all abili­ties and ages, both easier and more stan­dard ways of moving around are provided but even then a visual connec­tion is main­tained throug­hout Ku.Be.

Client

Municipality of Frederiksberg
Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities (LOA)
Realdania Foundation

Author

MVRDV

Photograph

Adam Mørk
PHOTOGRAPHS

Urban gardens

The urban gardens outside form the connec­tion between Ku.Be and the urban realm, playing an important role in expres­sing the eight volumes and the acti­vi­ties happe­ning inside. The diverse land­scape — a system of micro­cli­mates with chan­ging sounds, lights and scents which blends seam­lessly into a hill with inte­grated slides — reaches out into the gardens and ends in an amphi­theatre outside.

By beco­ming an exten­sion of the urban land­scape of Frede­riks­berg and inte­gra­ting the commu­nity to such an extent, the House of Culture and Move­ment looks to become an incu­bator for further deve­lo­p­ment within the neigh­bour­hood.

Address

Ku.Be Dirch Passers Allé 4 DK 2000 Frederiksberg

Aerial view

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Opening

2016
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Jean-Louis Trintignant Sports Hall

by | 29 Jan 2018 | Sports Halls

The desire for urbanity

Jean-Louis Trintignant Sports Hall in Uzès

Site

The chall­enge of buil­ding the Jean-Louis Trin­tignant Sports Hall in Uzès was to suggest a project that can work perfectly with the exis­ting envi­ron­ment while crea­ting optimal condi­tions allo­wing sports prac­tice. The main focus is spot on the utility of the inte­rior areas, as well as the lighting in order to offer comfort for both players and spec­ta­tors. Jean-Louis Trin­tignant Sports Hall must above all be a consti­tuent element of the Zac Mayac project while allo­wing conti­nuity with the borde­ring College project also realized by the agency back in 2003. This project takes up the mine­ra­lity of the college by modi­fying its mate­ria­lity. The perfo­ra­tions of the facades are the parti­cu­la­rity that the Sports Hall poss­esses.

Architect

Privat Architecture – François Privat
9 bis Rue Benoit
F‑30 700 Uzès
NBJ architectes
Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion
4 rue des Trésoriers de la Bourse
F‑34000 Montpellier

Opening

2017

Form

One of the major stakes of Jean-Louis Trin­tignant Sports Hall lies in its ability to gene­rate urba­nity. Thus the front square plays a primor­dial role, thought as an urban place; the square is intended to be homo­ge­neous in its repre­sen­ta­tion, uniting the pede­strian zone with the parking areas. Enti­rely glazed, the entrance of the sports hall offers a visual trans­ver­sa­lity from the square directly to the play area. At night it serves as a signal for visi­tors. In this confi­gu­ra­tion, the impact of the Sports Hall on the imme­diate envi­ron­ment is reduced, matching the topo­graphy of the place, Jean-Louis Trin­tignant Sports Hall adapts to the cons­traints of the plot and the program. This posi­tion has the effect of unifying the buil­ding and at the same time offe­ring it a unique and readable iden­tity. The playful­ness of the volumes is easy to read and acces­sible to all students.

Client

General Council of Gard + Segard

Author

NBJ Architectes

Photograph

Paul Kozlowski
PHOTOGRAPHS

Program

This compo­si­tion takes into conside­ra­tion the entire volume of the Sports Hall. All the tech­nical elements are hidden under the roof, inte­gra­ting a fifth façade on the main volume. The atten­tion we pay to an element often negle­cted but visible from the surroun­dings, shows our concern to obtain a genuine inte­gra­tion. The internal orga­niza­tion of Jean-Louis Trin­tignant Sports Hall is intended to be an example of simpli­fi­ca­tion of the distri­bu­tion elements for both public and users and tending towards a clear and displayed legi­bi­lity of diffe­rent spaces. The entrance, directly connected to the cour­tyard, offers a tran­si­tion by the front square. A real exch­ange takes place between the inside and the outside. The glass panorama in conti­nuity of the cour­tyard offers an impregnable view on games taking place inside, animating thus the surroun­dings of the hall thanks to sports prac­tice. The sports ground is at the center­piece of the venue while remai­ning clearly defined. At the same time the inte­rior compo­si­tion is such that the hall offers gene­rous access to the stands, invi­ting people to parti­ci­pate in the events. Access to the dres­sing rooms is also provided by wide stair­case in the hall, all under the super­vi­sion of the recep­tion placed stra­te­gi­cally in the heart of the flows. The goal is to create a comfor­table and welco­ming atmo­sphere in the gym, favoring clear colors so in order not to obstruct spec­ta­tors’ vision of games. The welco­ming and warm atmo­sphere of Jean-Louis Trin­tignant Sports Hall is upgraded by the usage of wood. The natural light is essen­tial for the healthy func­tio­ning of the sports hall, which is why the gymna­sium is illu­mi­nated by skylights on the roof and by the open­work façade for optimal ambi­ence and game condi­tions.

Address

Quartier Mayac Route de Saint Ambroix F‑30700 Uzès

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Centro Cívico Salburua

by | 27 Jan 2018 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

Creates relationships

Centro Cívico Salburua

Autonomous and ambitious

Centro Cívico Salburúa is a buil­ding that combines sporting, cultural and admi­nis­tra­tive uses to service the neigh­bor­hood Salburua in Vitoria.

The project conceives the civic center as a gathe­ring of people to carry out various social, cultural, recrea­tional or sports acti­vi­ties.

Architect

IDOM
Avda. Monasterio del Escorial, 4,
28049 ES-Madrid

Team

Juan Luis Geijo, Juan Dávila, Gonzalo Carro
Maria Robredo, Oscar Ferreira, Javier Manjón, Aintzane Gastelu-Iturri, Daniela Bustamante, Beatriz Pagoaga, Aitziber Olarte

Offers culture and sports

The program of the buil­ding is divided into three levels:

  • The ground floor has more public uses such as a café, lounge, hall, confe­rence room, etc.
  • The base­ment has all sports faci­li­ties except for the pool.
  • The first floor has admi­nis­tra­tive areas, cultural spaces (library, study room, Infotek and work­shops) and the pool with its own dres­sing room.

Client

Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz

Author

idom

Photograph

Aitor Ortiz
PHOTOGRAPHS

Creates relationships

The floor conveys this concept of diffu­sion thanks to a glass façade through which you can see what is happe­ning inside, and even across the street, estab­li­shing a fusion between urban space and inside the civic center, streng­thening its public character.

In contrast, the first floor has a less permeable, more abstract language, avoi­ding the usual human scale, in order to obtain a stronger and more powerful image.

Despite being a very compact buil­ding of appro­xi­m­ately 110x60 meters, it is very bright thanks to the many patios that traverse the entire buil­ding and that help estab­lish visual rela­ti­onships between the various acti­vi­ties taking place in the center

Address

Bratislava Hiribidea, 2,
01003 Vitoria-Gasteiz
ES-Araba

Aerial view

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SECTIONS

Francisco de Vitoria University Sports Hall

by | 27 Jan 2018 | Sports Halls

Everything simple, everything white, everything bright

Francisco de Vitoria University Sports Hall

Box of light

Desi­gned for the campus of the Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity in Pozuelo (Madrid), Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity Sports Hall is part of a sports center and class­room complex. It includes the use of sports halls, multi-purpose rooms, a gymna­sium, swim­ming pool, physio­the­rapy, etc. The sports complex can also be used as a large multi-purpose area and meeting hall, faci­li­ta­ting a range of univer­si­tary acti­vi­ties.

The design of Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity Sports Hall is restrained and volu­metri­cally adapted to the general layout of the campus in terms of maximum height and alignment. And it is intended to clearly diffe­ren­tiate the sports and teaching areas in terms of volume and façade mate­rial. The funda­mental element of the project is a large trans­lu­cent box of light, 60x50x12m, filtered and controlled, ente­ring into a spatial rela­ti­onship with the main square of the campus.

Two clean, well-defined boxes are joined toge­ther by a low-rise buil­ding whose roof becomes an inter-connec­ting patio.

Architect

Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza Calle Almirante 4 5ºB,   28004 ES-Madrid

Team

Ignacio Aguirre López, Alejandro Cervilla García, María Pérez de Camino Díez, Tommaso Campiotti, Miguel Ciria Hernández, Elena Jiménez Sánchez, Imanol Iparraguirre, María Moura
Photographs

Everything is painted white

The Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity Sports Hall is desi­gned with light­ness in mind, in GRC glass fiber rein­forced concrete, unlike the more closed class­room complex and low inter­con­nec­ting buil­ding. In the volume of Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity Sports Hall the orien­ta­tion of the various sides are valued differ­ently, so that the facades of the southern dihe­dral, more exposed to sunlight, are enclosed in a prefa­bri­cated panel of GRC glass fiber rein­forced concrete, while those of the nort­hern dihe­dral are in trans­lu­cent glass. The southwes­tern facade features a low strip of trans­pa­rent glass high­lighting the link with the main square of the campus. And this mecha­nism of trans­pa­rency is repeated on the north eastern facade facing the upper patio. Thus a visual rela­ti­onship is created between the square and the sports complex, while the southwes­tern façade of the class­room complex becomes a back­drop to the complex as a whole.

The struc­ture of Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity Sports Hall is made of steel: a grid of pillars and beams on the facades and trusses to resolve the great roof span. All painted in white. The rema­inder of the struc­ture is in rein­forced concrete, with the unique feature of wide angled beams over the base­ment swim­ming-pool area.

The result is a buil­ding of great sobriety and formal restraint.

Client

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Address

Carretera Pozuelo-Majadahonda km 1.800 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón ES-Madrid

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2017
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Architectura sine luce nulla Architectura est

By Colette Jauze
I am well acquainted with the work of Alberto Campo Baeza for a very long time now, and have written about it on nume­rous occa­sions. I contri­buted to the very first mono­graph on him published in 1996 by Munilla Lería. But I must confess that his recently completed work, the sports pavi­lion for the Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity in Madrid, has once again taken me by surprise. So much so, in fact, that I have decided to write about it.

I think that this space so full of light, a marvellous light that is achieved by means of a great inte­rior trans­lu­cent dihe­dral, is hard to beat. Here we have a box of light, or as he himself described it in a disser­ta­tion on the project, a boîte á lumiére.

Already in a little work of his, Moliner house, built in 2008, in Zara­goza, our archi­tect had devised a library where he used a simple, but similar, light mecha­nism: the north facade, enti­rely glazed with trans­lu­cent white glass, caused light to become the prot­ago­nist of that glea­ming white inte­rior. The result was very beau­tiful.

Author

Alberto Campo Baeza

Photograph

© Javier Callejas

Possession of light

In this case, not one but two enormous trans­lu­cent nort­hern walls provide this space with an extra­or­di­nary light. And all the rest of Fran­cisco de Vitoria Univer­sity Sports Hallis white, multi­plying the lumi­nous effect. Also white is the stand covered with large, white, perfect ceramic panels, which are the very same as those cove­ring the plinth.

Ever­y­thing simple, very simple, ever­y­thing white, very white, ever­y­thing lumi­nous, very lumi­nous. Once again our archi­tect has embo­died his own stated propo­sals that Light is more and Archi­tec­tura sine luce nulla Archi­tec­tura est, which are so much more than fine lite­rary phrases.

When we repea­tedly say and write that Alberto Campo Baeza is the archi­tect of light, it is because we believe it and because it is confirmed in his works, as it is here. Alberto Campo Baeza fends off such asser­tions, arguing that this is a universal theme, inherent to Archi­tec­ture itself, which nobody could possibly take owner­ship of, least of all himself.

The Architect

ALBERTO CAMPO BAEZA
ALBERTO CAMPO BAEZA

Alberto Campo Baeza was born in Valla­dolid, where his grand­fa­ther was an archi­tect, but from the age of two, he lived in Cádiz where he saw the Light.

 He is a Professor in the Madrid School of Archi­tec­ture, ETSAM, where he has been a tenured Professor for more than 35 years. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich and the EPFL in Lausanne as well as the Univer­sity of Penn­syl­vania in Phil­adel­phia, the Kansas State Univer­sity, the CUA Univer­sity in Washington, and in 2016, L’Ecole d’Architecture in Tournai, Belgique. More recently, he has been named 2017 Clarkson Chair in Archi­tec­ture by the Buffalo Univer­sity.

 He has given lectures all over the world, and has received signi­fi­cant reco­gni­tion like the Torroja Award for his Caja Granada or the Award of the UPM Univer­sity for his Excel­lence in Teaching. In 2013 he was awarded the Hein­rich Tessenow Gold Medal, the Arnold W. Brunner Memo­rial Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Inter­na­tional Award Archi­tec­ture in Stone in Verona, and the RIBA Inter­na­tional Fellow­ship 2014 of the Royal Insti­tute of British Archi­tects. Also in 2014 he was elected Full Member to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando of Spain. In 2015, he was awarded the BigMat 2015 in Berlin and the Inter­na­tional Prize of Spanish Archi­tec­ture (PAEI 2015). And won the 1st Prize Ex Aequo to build the new Louvre.

“Silence. Birds. Bach.”
An interview with Alberto Campo Baeza

  • Please tell us about your top 5 sports faci­li­ties.
  • Which archi­tects and buil­dings have left a lasting impres­sion on you? Why?
  • What and whom do you consider as industry trends and trend­set­ters?
  • What book should archi­tects in this industry abso­lutely read?
  • What is/was your favo­rite song to listen to while desig­ning?
  • Coli­seum in Rome, Epidauro in Grece, Stadium Braga by Souto de Moura, Stadium Franchi Siena by Pier Luigi Nervi, Hipodromo Zarzuela Madrid by Eduardo Torroja
  • David Chip­per­field: Museum Berlin, Steven Holl: Library New York, Rafael Viñoly: Skyscraper New York, Alvaro Siza: Church Cana­veses, Souto de Moura: Torre Burgo Porto
  • Buck­mister Fuller Globes, Frei Otto Tents, White Clouds
  • T.S. Eliot: What is a classic?, Stefan Zweig: The secret of Artistic Crea­tion, Marcus Aure­lius: Medi­ta­tions
  • Silence. Birds. Bach.
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