U Arena

by | 16 Dec 2017 | Sports Halls, Stadia

Salle de Spectacles

U Arena in Paris

Situation

U Arena, known in its earlier plan­ning and cons­truc­tion stages as Arena 92, is a newly opened multi-use domed stadium, the first in Europe since Telenor Arena in Oslo, 2009. The arena was desi­gned by Chris­tian de Portzam­parc Archi­tecte and built by the French rugby union club Racing 92 in the western suburbs of Paris.

U Arena is located in the town of Nanterre feet of the “Grande Arche” of La Défense. This project falls within the scope of opera­tion of national inte­rest “Seine-Arche”. It stands in the rectangle formed by the new neighborhood’s road grid “embedded” in a dense urban fabric. It has a horse­shoe layout; one side is formed by an office buil­ding which will house the Hauts-de-Seine County Council from April 2018. It was to build the house of “Racing”, an ultra-modern enclo­sure, whose club will draw most of its finan­cial resources by orga­ni­zing, beside of rugby match, enter­tain­ment of all kinds.

Origi­nally planned to open in 2014 but delayed due to local protests, it opened in October 2017.

Architect

Chris­tian de Portzam­parc Archi­tecte
38, rue La Bruyère
F‑75009 Paris

Client

Racing Arena, Jacky Loren­zetti

PHOTOGRAPHS

Configuration

The venue, origi­nally planned to have a retrac­table roof but instead built with a fixed roof, offers three sepa­rate confi­gu­ra­tions.

  • In its rugby confi­gu­ra­tion, it will have a capa­city of 32,000.
  • For concerts, it will be able to seat 40,000.
  • A movable stand will allow it to be used for indoor sports, with a capa­city as low as 5,000.

Address

Stade U Arena
99 Jardin de l’Arche
Nanterre Paris-La Défense
France

Aerial view

Thank you, Google

RUGBY

CONCERT

SMALLER EVENTS

To express its iden­tity as a perfor­mance space, the archi­tect has installed a main entrance on the core axis of La Défense, and as in all major stadia, the access points are on the three sides of the U shape. Under the seating, the space is totally occu­pied by recep­tion areas, dres­sing rooms and refresh­ment areas, to give them light from the street.

And surroun­ding the lower part of the seating, a “neck­lace” of glass scales forming a regular series of shells in white and gray aluminum and lightly seri­gra­phed glass. This neck­lace illu­mi­nates the lobbies and dres­sing rooms.

U Arena replaces  Stade Yves-du-Manoir which had been home of  Racing 92 since 1907. 
im Pariser Vorort Colombes, das bereits Austra­gungsort der Olym­pi­schen Sommer­spiele 1924 war. Aufgrund seiner alternden Bausub­stanz und der rück­läu­figen Zuschau­er­ka­pa­zität wurde im Jahr 2011 der Umzug in ein neues Stadion in Nanterre beschlossen.

Construction costs

€360,000,000

Opening

10/2017

DRAWINGS

Numbers and facts

  • 6,100 tonnes: the weight of the roof at 40 meters above the ground. The roof is made up of four mega beams, the most important of which weighs 1,200 tonnes.
  • Extre­mely large span frame of 150 meters x 110 meters and 14 meters thic­k­ness.
  • 592 giant aluminum and glass scales illu­mi­nated by 3,000 LED strips can vary in 16 million colors. Each scale is equipped with LED strips with an inde­pen­dent IP address, offe­ring infi­nite fixed and dynamic light compo­si­tions.
  • 51,754 m² surface of the buil­ding inclu­ding 11,000 m² of field.
  • 13 kilo­me­ters and 17,000 m² of blea­chers.
  • 16 entrances.
  • A prefa­bri­cated concrete facade with 645 concrete shells (368 planes, 193 cylind­rical, 47 torics, 42 conical, 16 deve­lo­pable, 3 single, 6 compound).
  • 2,400 m²: the size of the giant projec­tion screen, among the largest in the world.
  • 44 Barco HDF projec­tors (30,000 lumens each) equip the hall.
  • 350 HD screens distri­buted throug­hout the entire enclo­sure.
  • 3,380 VIP seats distri­buted in 95 private boxes and 8 lounges.

The Rolling Stones were the first band to ever perform a concert in the stadium, closing their Europe-only „No Filter Tour“ with three shows on 19, 22, and 25 October 2017. A good start.

Author of text

Chris­tian de Portzam­parc Archi­tecte

Photographs

Nicolas-Borel
CDP
Anthony Folliau

VIDEOS

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Gammel Hellerup

by | 7 Dec 2017 | Outdoor, Sports Halls

Spectacle

Gammel Hellerup High School

The school

The 1,100 m² multi-purpose hall and the latest two-level addi­tion to Gammel Hellerup High School just north of Copen­hagen, provides exis­ting students with gene­rous spaces for social and crea­tive unfol­ding, while incre­asing the capa­city of the school in response to its growing popu­la­rity.

Gammel Hellerup Gymna­sium is a high school situated in Hellerup, north of Copen­hagen. It was founded in 1894 and was origi­nally a boys’ school. Today it is a mixed school and offers a variety of specia­lized study programmes within the fields of social science, the huma­ni­ties and natural science to more than 900 students. The school contains a range of class­rooms, labo­ra­to­ries and computer rooms to meet all the students’ needs. Gammel Hellerup Gymna­sium has a repu­ta­tion of high academic stan­dards and outstan­ding exami­na­tion results, engen­de­ring mature and inde­pen­dent students ready for the chal­lenges of higher educa­tion at univer­si­ties in Denmark and abroad.

Architect

BIG

Client

Gammel Hellerup High School

The sports hall

Origi­nally a buil­ding adja­cent to the campus, the gymna­sium faci­li­ties became insuf­fi­cient; Gammel Hellerup High School lacked a large multi-func­tional space for physical acti­vi­ties, gradua­tion cere­mo­nies and social gathe­rings. In response, BIG desi­gned a multi-purpose hall for the physical educa­tion and social deve­lo­p­ment of the students, drawing its signa­ture curve from the physics of a hand­ball being thrown. Placed 16.5 feet below ground in the school’s cour­tyard, the hall is passi­vely tempe­ra­ture controlled and does not impose on its context. Above ground, the hall’s softly curved roof is an informal meeting place. The edge of the roof is desi­gned as a long social bench, perfo­rated with small windows to provide natural daylighting below. The shape of the roof is based on the formula for a balli­stic arc. Form follows formula!

Address

Gammel Hellerup High School
Svane­møl­levej 87
2900 Hellerup
Denmark

Aerial view

Thank you, Google

Opening

2015/2017

PHOTOGRAPHS

Another new building

During the cons­truc­tion of the hall, the school planned a new buil­ding, located between the school’s multi-purpose hall and adja­cent foot­ball fields. This new arts buil­ding seeks to connect the sports areas with the gymnasium’s exis­ting educa­tional faci­li­ties in one conti­nuous flow. By placing parts of the new buil­ding beneath the foot­ball fields, the students are able to walk through the sunken sports hall at the center of the school´s cour­tyard, to the class­rooms, cafe­teria, and out to the main entrance at street level. Addi­tio­nally, the new faci­li­ties situated under­ground form the roof of the new arts buil­ding, exten­ding the foot­ball fields into a green carpet for informal acti­vity and to serve as informal seating over­loo­king future sporting events.

Author of text

BIG

Photographs

José Campos

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AWARDS

  • 2014 Fast Company Inno­va­tion By Design Awards Fina­list
  • 2014 Center For Active Design Excel­lence Awards Hono­rable Mention
  • 2014 Archi­tizer A+ Awards Jury Winner
  • 2014 Al Archi­tec­ture & Light Design Awards
  • 2014 Den Nordiske Lyspris (nordic Lighting Award)
  • 2013 Archi­tect Maga­zi­ne’s Annual Design Review Grow Cate­gory
  • 2013 Den Danske Lyspris
  • 2013 In Situ Prisen (danske Beton) Honor
THE ARCHITECTS

BIG is a Copen­hagen, New York and London based group of archi­tects, desi­gners, urba­nists, land­scape profes­sio­nals, inte­rior and product desi­gners, rese­ar­chers and inven­tors. The office is curr­ently involved in a large number of projects throug­hout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
BIG’s archi­tec­ture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contem­po­rary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multi­cul­tural exch­ange, global econo­mical flows and commu­ni­ca­tion tech­no­lo­gies that all toge­ther require new ways of archi­tec­tural and urban orga­niza­tion. BIG believe that in order to deal with today’s chal­lenges, archi­tec­ture can profi­tably move into a field that has been largely unex­plored. A prag­matic utopian archi­tec­ture that steers clear of the petri­fying prag­ma­tism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital forma­lism. Like a form of program­matic alchemy BIG creates archi­tec­ture by mixing conven­tional ingre­di­ents such as living, leisure, working, parking and shop­ping. By hitting the fertile overlap between prag­matic and utopia, the archi­tects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contem­po­rary life forms.

 Bjarke Ingels. Worldcraft. The Future of StoryTelling
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Team Gammel Hellerup High School

Part­ners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Finn Nørkjær
Project Leaders Multi-Use Hall & Gymna­sium: Ole Schrøder, Ole Elkjær-Larsen, Frederik Lyng
Team Multi-Use Hall & Gymna­sium: Ana Merino, Anders Hjortnæs, Chris­tian Alvarez, Dennis Rasmussen, Gül Ertekin, Henrick Poulsen, Hjalti Gest­sson, Jan Magas­anik, Jakob Lange, Jacob Thomsen, Jeppe Ecklon, Ji-young Yoon, Michael Schø­ne­mann, Nari­sara Schröder, Riccardo Mariano, Rune Hansen, Snorre Nash, Thomas Juul-Jensen, Vincent He, Xu Li
Project Manager Master Plan & Educa­tion Buil­ding: Ole Elkjær-Larsen
Project Leader Master Plan & Educa­tion Buil­ding: Tobias Hjortdal
Team Master Plan & Educa­tion Buil­ding: Agnete Jukne­viciute, Ambra Chiesa, Brigitta Gulyás, Dennis Rasmussen, Enea Miche­lesio, Greta Kren­ciute, Høgni Laksá­foss, Isabella Eriksson, Jan Magas­anik, Mikkel Marcker Stub­gaard, Jeppe Ecklon, Kamilla Heskje, Michael Schø­ne­mann, Nari­sara Schröder, Thomas Juul-Jensen
Project Leader Land­scape: Ole Elkjær-Larsen
Team Land­scape:  Brigitta Gulyás, Enea Miche­lesio, Jakob Lange, Mikkel Marcker Stub­gaard, Nari­sara Schröder, Tobias Hjortdal 

Padel Dubai

by | 5 Dec 2017 | Design, Sports Halls

Eye-catcher

Padel Dubai

Padel

OOIIO desi­gned a new Padel Courts complex at a fanta­stic loca­tion: Kite Beach, Dubai. 

Padel is a racquet sport invented in Mexico in 1969. In the US and Canada the sport is known as Paddle. It is curr­ently most popular in Hispanic American count­ries such as Argen­tina and Mexico as well as in Spain and Andorra, although it is now begin­ning to spread rapidly across Europe and other conti­nents.

Padel is typi­cally played in doubles on an enclosed court a third the size of a tennis court. Scoring is the same as normal tennis and the balls used are similar but with a little less pres­sure, the main diffe­rences are that the court has walls and the balls can be played off them in a similar way as in the game of squash and that solid, string­less racquets are used. The height of the ball being served must be at or below the waist level.

However, Padel is a brand-new sport to the Emirates and the client wants to present it to the whole country as a cool new way of having fun playing with friends, working out your body and taking care of your health.

Architect

OOIIO Archi­tec­ture
Paseo de San Illán, 47. Local Derecho
28019, Madrid
Spain

Team

Joaquín Millán Villa­muelas, Gabriela Sanz Rodrí­guez, Sergio González Gómez, Isabel Sánchez Puerta, M. Soledad Antón Vicente, Cris­tina Vicario del Cojo, Sergio Velan­drino Poveda

Client

Carbon­eras Sports Agency

Author of text

OOIIO

The Kite Beach concept

OOIIO were asked to create a new and impres­sive Padel Complex in one of the best loca­tions one could imagine for a project like this: Kite Beach, on Dubai´s seafront. Kite Beach is the place where surfers and people who love sports go to relax and enjoy the wind and the great weather almost all year long.

Doubt to this nice climatic condi­tions and great stra­tegic loca­tion with a lot of sports enthu­si­a­stics all around, the archi­tects decided to create an open group of struc­tures: light enough to welcome passen­gers and allow players to enjoy the awesome views to the sea and beach. OOIIO don´t want to create this buil­ding as a generic closed container box. Not here, not if you want to show a new sport to ever­yone in this country.

This is why every Padel Court is surrounded by a big fancy shaped beam, cladded with light canes, appro­priate for a seafront loca­tion serving for several design goals:

  • Catch the passen­gers’ views thanks to its cool shape
  • The canes façade creates shadows and sun protec­tion
  • The typical “big” sports centre is split up into several smaller centres, cheaper and easier to control clima­ti­cally. No energy will be wasted as HVAC will be swit­ched on and off, depen­ding on its use
  • The beams also provide a perfect struc­ture to hung fabrics and totally close the courts during hot summer, lear­ning from local tradi­tional archi­tec­ture.

One new Padel Court concept to promote a new way of sports buil­dings, more related with sustaina­bi­lity and the natural seasons weather.

Address

Kite Beach
Dubai
UAE.

Aerial view

Thank you, Google

Size

1,496 m²

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Gymnastics Training Center of Guimarães

by | 5 Dec 2017 | Sports Centres, Sports Halls

High performance

Gymnastics Training Center of Guimarães

A World Heritage Site

With a 3,100m² of covered area, the Gymnastic Trai­ning Center of Guimarães is located at the East limit of the city park and was conceived for prac­tice and trai­ning of high perfor­mance gymnastics. Guimarães is a city and muni­ci­pa­lity located in nort­hern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre is listed as UNESCO World Heri­tage Site since 2001, in reco­gni­tion for being an “excep­tio­nally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolu­tion of a medieval sett­le­ment into a modern town” in Europe. Guimarães is also a part of the Ave Subre­gion (one of the most indus­tria­lised subre­gions in the country), as well as the histo­rical Minho Province. The city has a popu­la­tion of 52,181 inha­bi­tants.

 The intent of applying the tech­no­lo­gies that trans­form this kind of buil­ding into an energy-inde­pen­dent struc­ture with low CO2 emis­sion was the big chall­enge, but the objec­tive was surpassed and the buil­ding is already a land­mark in sustaina­bi­lity, ener­getic effi­ci­ency and inno­va­tion. The Trai­ning Center achieved high perfor­mance ratings by the LiderA system, with an A++ certi­fi­ca­tion, a reco­gni­tion which is rare in sustaina­bi­lity, not only in Portugal.

Architect

Pita­goras Group Portugal — Guimarães
rua João de Oliveira Salgado 5 C
Costa, 4810–015
Guimarães – Portugal

Team

Raul Roque Figuei­redo, Alex­andre Coelho Lima, Manuel Vilhena Roque, André Malheiro, João Couto, Luís Guimarães, Hélio Pinto, Isabel Rodri­gues, Tiago Ranhada, Rui silva

Client

Câmara Muni­cipal de Guimarães
PHOTOGRAPHS

An exclusive building

The buil­ding sits between two pre-exis­ting streets, both permit access to the buil­ding, the one at a higher level is the main street, and the other, on a lower level, limits the city park and is used for exclu­sive access to the Trai­ning Center.

The Trai­ning Center is exclu­sive for the prac­tice of high perfor­mance gymnastics and consists of a pavi­lion, a gym, locker rooms, admi­nis­tra­tive offices and public spaces that grant access to the stands.

The choice of mate­rials for the buil­ding reveals a pedagogic intent and shows envi­ron­mental concern in the buil­ding design, serving the ener­getic effi­ci­ency and sear­ching for a clear balance between tech­no­logy and archi­tec­ture. The facade, built from dark agglo­me­rate cork, is a perfect example of that versa­ti­lity, inten­ding to repre­sent a strong design trait for the project while keeping the asso­cia­tion with the envi­ron­mental sustaina­bi­lity.

The volu­metric compo­si­tion of the buil­ding was defined by its core program­matic needs and the wish to create a buil­ding that is inte­grated in the local land­scape. Ther­e­fore, the buil­ding sear­ches for scale and refe­rences on the surroun­dings, using its volu­metric presence to create another element for the park walking paths, like the entrance plaza, that not only connects the two levels of the buil­ding, but also allows the contem­pla­tion of the park and the eastern hillside of the city.

Address

Academia de Giná­stica
Guimarães
Portugal

Aerial view

Thank you, Google

Opening

2017

Author of text

Pita­goras Group

Photographs

José Campos
PLANS

VIDEOS
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Skate park at Pragfriedhof

by | 27 Nov 2017 | Sports Halls

Put an end to it!

The skate park at Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart

Skate parks are noisy

Skate parks are noisy. Even in Stutt­gart. Put a roof on it and the skate park at Prag­friedhof becomes an indoor skating rink – and the noise problem is fixed using archi­tec­tural solu­tions.

In the year 2009, the Stutt­gart muni­cipal corpo­ra­tion cons­tructed a skate park at Fried­hofstrasse in the nort­hern quar­ters of the city. The 1,300 m² large park is a part of a multi-gene­ra­tion park with an amateur foot­ball field, beach volley­ball field and a play area for small children. More than 3,000 m² of lawns and meadows are also a part of this park. Skaters loved the skate park and frequented it. However, it quickly became appa­rent that the inten­sive use of the area and the resul­ting noise disturbed the resi­dents. A ceme­tery and resi­den­tial towers are located in the vici­nity. Complaints were raised by the resi­dents and employees of resi­dent compa­nies. The requi­re­ments of noise protec­tion were not met.

Architects

Herrmann+Bosch
Archi­tekten
Teck­straße 56
D‑70190 Stutt­gart

Team

Cons­truc­tion design
Mayr und Lude­scher Bera­tende Inge­nieure

Client

Landes­haupt­stadt Stutt­gart

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

A roof will resolve several problems

A roof cove­ring an area of 65 x 28 x 6.5 meters was installed to main­tain the faci­lity. The roof serves as a weather shield and reduces noise emis­sions to the exis­ting and planned resi­den­tial deve­lo­p­ment in the vici­nity. Curr­ently, the unheated hall is usable from eight in the morning to eight in the evening in any weather condi­tion.

The skating rink has:

  • a steep curve
  • two small hubbas
  • three tiers
  • two hand rails
  • two ramps
  • Manual Pad Flat Rail
  • Hip and Bench
  • Bank to Wall
  • two Hubba Ledges
  • a small Hip
  • two Boome­rang Ledges
  • a ledge
  • a rail
  • three tiered ledges
  • a Bowl-Area.

Address

Skater­halle Prag­friedhof
Fried­hof­straße 16/1
D‑70191 Stutt­gart

Aerial view

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Opening

2015

The construction

The indoor skating hall at Prag­friedhof has a foun­da­tion made of conti­nuous strip footings along the length of the skating rink. 16 lami­nated timber trusses as rein­forced support frames at a distance of about 4.0 m span the 26.5 m wide hall. Leng­thwise the frames are connected only over the trape­zo­idal sheet shell and supported by the arches. This arran­ge­ment elimi­nates the need of secon­dary beams or rein­force­ments. The roof cover is made of bent aluminum-stan­ding seam profiles with mineral wool insu­la­tion under­neath it (around 120 mm) and a bitu­mi­nous mois­ture barrier to prevent conden­sa­tion forma­tion and over­hea­ting during summer. The front side has profiled glass sections (2‑layer) in the upper half. The trans­lu­cent profiled glass diffuses light.

Before

After
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Requirements fulfilled

The bottom half of the facade of the skating hall at Prag­fiedhof is fitted with trans­pa­rent glass sections so that one can look inside. Natural lighting through the openings on the skir­ting and skylight sections enable natural flow of light from bottom to top. Skylight sections are made of impact-rain proof venti­la­tion lamella. The profiled sheet metal roof is fitted with acou­stic perfo­ra­tions all around to reduce noise.

The sound insu­la­tion requi­re­ments of the surroun­ding struc­tures are met by imple­men­ting these struc­tural changes. Other specific measures such as addi­tional absorber surfaces take care of critical points. A strip light in the roof ridge, addi­tional skylights on the south-east side, floor-to-ceiling glass façade in the front and glazing along the track ensure that the hall is well lit when there is ample daylight.  On cloudy days and in the evening the skating hall at Prag­fiedhof is lit-up using spot­lights and lumi­n­aires.

Author of text

Hermann+Bosch Archi­tekten

Photographs

Achim Birn­baum

Southern view

GROUND PLAN

CROSS SECTION

Bamboo Sports Hall at Panyaden International School

by | 23 Oct 2017 | Schools and playgrounds, Sports Halls

Cool and pleasant

Bamboo Sports Hall at Panyaden International School

Simple to use, easy to maintain

Chiangmai Life Archi­tects’ Bamboo Sports Hall at Panyaden Inter­na­tional School combines modern organic design, 21st century engi­nee­ring and a natural mate­rial: bamboo.

Situated in the cultural heart of nort­hern Thai­land, Panyaden Inter­na­tional School in Chiang Mai is a green school built from earth and bamboo and is peacefully located among rice fields just 15 minutes’ drive from the city centre.

Panyaden Inter­na­tional School was founded to deliver a holi­stic educa­tion based on Buddhist prin­ci­ples inte­grated with a modern curri­culum. Students who graduate here “will not only have inter­na­tio­nally compa­tible skills in reading, writing, mathe­ma­tics and science but also prac­tical life skills such as how to grow vege­ta­bles and eat healt­hily, how to over­come diffi­cul­ties and social respon­si­bi­lity.” The campus design, by its layout and non-reli­ance on unneces­sary resources or tech­no­lo­gies, makes the school simple to use and easy to main­tain. 

Panyaden Inter­na­tional School and its new Bamboo Sports Hal are exem­plary examples for eco-friendly archi­tec­ture and as such receive both local as well as inter­na­tional reco­gni­tion. The buil­dings that make up the school fall into two cate­go­ries. The class­rooms and offices were built with load bearing walls made of rammed earth which carry bamboo roofs, clad­ding as well as struc­tural elements. Due to the high thermal mass of rammed earth walls, tempe­ra­ture varia­tions are mode­rated, thus elimi­na­ting the need for air condi­tio­ning. In addi­tion, rammed earth walls keep humi­dity at specific levels which are ideal for asthma suffe­rers. The several open pavi­lions (which are called sala in Thai) that house the assembly hall, the Buddhist chapel, the school canteen, and a covered play area next to the swim­ming pool, are comple­tely made out of bamboo, also using bamboo set on large boulders of natural stone for the struc­tural supports. 24H Archi­tec­ture from the Nether­lands was respon­sible for the initial design, with the cons­truc­tion and subse­quent designs of several addi­tional buil­dings by Chiangmai Life Cons­truc­tion.

Architect

Chiangmai Life Cons­truc­tion Co., Ltd.
326 Thanon Kan Klong,
T. Nong Kwai,
A. Hang­dong,
Chiang Mai, 50230
Thai­land

Team

Lead Archi­tects:
Markus Rose­lieb, Tosapon Sitti­wong

Engi­neers:
Phuong Nguyen, Esteban Morales Montoya

Manufacturers/Products:
Chiangmai Life Cons­truc­tion: Borax/Boric acid treated Bamboo

Yang Ma Sports Tech Co., Ltd: EPDM/SBR indoor sports floor

PSC Commer­cial Co., Ltd.: Cree Multi­pur­pose LED lights

Client

Panyaden Inter­na­tional School
JIRANAT SRIPHET
JIRANAT SRIPHET

Head Teacher Thai at Panyaden Inter­na­tional School

“At Panyaden, we create an envi­ron­ment where students under­stand the importance and value of Thai language, culture and customs. We are proud to see both Thai and foreign students use Thai language correctly and prac­tise Thai manners, such as gree­ting each other with a ‘wai’ and paying respects to monks. Deve­lo­ping lingu­i­stic apti­tude along­side broader social commu­ni­ca­tion skills builds a strong foun­da­tion for life. Raising children is like nurtu­ring plants. If we tend to the seed­lings with care and atten­tion, the plants will be healthy and strong.”

The brief: a smooth integration

The archi­tects brief was to build a sports hall that should be big enough to house the projected capa­city of 300 students, but still smoothly inte­grates with the previous earthen and bamboo buil­dings of the school as well as the natural hilly land­scape of the area. The hall should provide modern sports faci­li­ties and only use bamboo to main­tain the low carbon foot­print and the “Green School” mission of Panyaden.

Bamboo Sports Hal covers an area of 782 m², and hosts futsal, basket­ball, volley­ball and badminton courts, as well as a stage that can be lifted auto­ma­ti­cally. The back­drop of the stage is the front wall of a storage room for sports and drama equip­ment. On both long sides balco­nies provide space for both parents and other visi­tors to observe sporting events or shows.

The design and mate­rial of Bamboo Sports Hal enable a cool and plea­sant climate all year round through natural venti­la­tion and insu­la­tion. At the same time, the exposed bamboo struc­ture is a feast to the eye and an example of masterly handi­craft.

Address

 218 Moo 2
T. Namprae
A. Hang Dong
Chiang Mai 50230
Thai­land

Aerial view

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User

Panyaden Inter­na­tional School
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Opening

2017
EXTERIOR VIEWS
 

 

 

INTERIOR VIEWS

Carbon footprint: zero

Bamboo Sports Hall was desi­gned with the help of two inde­pen­dent engi­neers for modern safety stan­dards in cons­truc­tion to with­stand the local high-speed winds, earth­quakes and other natural forces.

The inno­va­tive struc­tural design is based on newly deve­loped prefa­bri­cated bamboo trusses with a span of over 17 meters without steel rein­force­ments or connec­tions. These trusses were prebuilt on site and lifted into posi­tion with the help of a crane.

Bamboo Sports Hal’s carbon foot­print is zero. The bamboo used absorbed carbon to a much higher extent than the carbon emitted during treat­ment, trans­port and cons­truc­tion.

The bamboo was all well selected for age and treated with borax salt. No toxic chemi­cals were involved in the treat­ment process. The life span of the bamboo hall is expected to be at least 50 years.

Author of text

Chiangmai Life Archi­tects

Photograph

Markus Rose­lieb (CLA); exte­rior photo­graphs
Alberto Cosi: inte­rior photo­graphs
SKETCHES & DRAWINGS

Eichi Niederglatt

by | 14 Sep 2017 | Sports Halls

The Round and the Square

Eichi Niederglatt school centre sports hall

Architecture and aesthetics

The exis­ting school centre Eichi in the Swiss muni­ci­pa­lity of Nieder­glatt (canton of Zurich) capti­vates with its compo­si­tion and the unem­bel­lished inter­play of simple cubes. The coarse plaster used in the façades and its diffe­rent warm tones shine in combi­na­tion with the inci­dence and inten­sity of light.

The centre was built in 1985 by the archi­tect Walter Schindler. L3P added the new school buil­ding wing in 2007. In the sense of a conti­nua­tion the archi­tects saw the reuse of this facade mate­rial also for the exten­sion buil­ding sports hall. With a new colour tone, the exis­ting colour concept with the warm tones towards orange-redish of the whole centre of Eichi has been continued and supple­mented.

Physical address

Graf­schaft­strasse 57
8172 Nieder­glatt ZH
Switz­er­land

Aerial view

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Date of completion

2010

Interior views

 

Project

The multi-purpose double sports hall forms the archi­tec­tural conclu­sion of the school complex to the southwest. The inner struc­ture consists of a two-storey, serving spatial layer on the west side and the hall adjoi­ning to the east. The plat­form is arranged on the long side of the new gymna­sium exten­sion.

The new, two-storey foyer is oriented towards the outdoor sports field and has been gene­rously glazed. Toilets, office and outdoor equip­ment room are located on the ground floor and are also acces­sible from the outside. The cloa­k­rooms and showers are located on the upper floor and can be accessed via a corridor which is open to the hall and can also be used as a spec­tator gallery.

From a fire protec­tion point of view, the hall and new entrances are desi­gned as one fire compart­ment. This allows for an extre­mely variable use — just as the name “multi­pur­pose hall” demands. All areas are directly evacuated to the outside. On the upper floor, a second corridor layer allows escape to the south. At the same time, the possi­bi­lity of sepa­ra­tion brings an addi­tional benefit to the cloa­k­rooms for artists in thea­tres, which are directly connected to the stage via an internal stair­case. Another advan­tage of the prece­ding room layer is the resul­ting inti­macy for the users of the cloa­k­room.

Architect

L3P Archi­tects
Unter­burg 33
8158 Regens­berg
Switz­er­land

Team

Martin Reusser dipl. Arch. FH Reg A SIA; Boris Egli dipl. Arch. FH Reg A SIA; Markus Müller dipl. Arch. FH

User

Secon­dary school commu­nity
Nieder­hasli Nieder­glatt

Client

Muni­cipal admi­nis­tra­tion
Graf­schaft­strasse 55
8172 Nieder­glatt
Switz­er­land
L3P Architects

L3P Architects

Regens­berg

PHILOSOPHY & OPERATION

Develop — Design — Model — Ques­tion — Modify — Detail — Refine

These steps accom­pany us every day and are the basis and moti­va­tion of our work. All these facets make our profes­sion a voca­tion.
Toge­ther with our clients or as a general contractor, we develop sustainable concepts and buil­dings. This includes the respon­sible use of valuable soil and resources.
Space, propor­tions, mate­ria­lity, colourful­ness, lighting and light direc­tion are para­me­ters which are deve­loped and deve­loped further accor­ding to the object until a WHOLE is created.

Development and design

The exis­ting access road from the Rüti­wie­sen­strasse was extended and asphalted.

The acces­si­bi­lity of the new multi-purpose hall is regu­lated as follows:

  • Clubs and pupils use the new entrance on the ground floor, which is oppo­site the exit of the class­room wing.
  • In the evening and during the week, club members have the oppor­tu­nity to park their vehicles in the supply area office and stage.
  • When used as a multi-purpose hall, the public access is via the exis­ting foyer, which is opti­mally accessed via the school square and the nearby parking faci­li­ties. The foyer and the exis­ting gymna­sium were also rede­si­gned in terms of mate­rials, lighting and colours.

Author of text

L3P

Photographs

Vito Stal­lone

Plans & Drawings

Statics, lighting and interior design

The exten­sion of the old gymna­sium lost its southern window surfaces. The exis­ting north-facing oblique lights have been left. The struc­tural design was also carried out in consul­ta­tion with the respon­sible civil engi­neer, who had calcu­lated the 1985 Gymna­sium.

The aging of the concrete and the resul­ting higher compres­sive strength made it possible to cut out indi­vi­dual sections. For reasons of cost, the initi­ally planned round and playfully arranged skylights had to be aban­doned.

The archi­tects desi­gned circular recesses in the exposed concrete walls and plywood clad­dings as a form of crea­tive compen­sa­tion. The circle is ubiqui­tous in general: round mills were created in the exis­ting concrete walls and the new walls were formed accor­dingly. Like boun­cing balls, this creates a meta­phor toge­ther with the depres­sions, which makes the hall spati­ally very attrac­tive.

School band “Seehelden”

 

Killing me softly with his song

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