Architecture for citius, altius, fortius! Faster, higher and stronger!
The municipality of Domžale plans to build a new handball and basketball sports hall within the existing sports park. The dominant feature of the sports park is the interplay of greenery and open sports areas. The siting of a major sports facility necessarily encroaches on the landscape space and introduces a new centre of gravity.
The design of the hall is therefore distinctly pavilion-like. The stands are positioned in a purely transverse direction, opening up views outwards and inwards, while allowing quality contact between the sport and the surrounding nature. The view under the double curved ‘awning’ roof can flow through the building, and the glass walls open at the climatically appropriate time to allow natural ventilation and lighting. The double façade envelope allows for high quality shading in the intermediate layer, winter heat storage and other sustainable building attributes.
The 3,000-seat venue has a large auditorium, a smaller climbing and basketball hall, several catering facilities and a logistical back-office for the organisation of top-level competitions according to the standards of international sports federations.
The project was conceived as a conceptual proposal, without a specific programme and project brief. As a result, it is conceived in a visionary way, as our view of how sports facilities should be conceived. As highly airy, open, light structures with innovative design solutions. He is undeniably following in the footsteps of Kenzo Tange and Arno Jacobsen. After all, sport is the most agile, dynamic and daring thing the human race has created in millennia. It should also be representative of the architecture.
Authors of the project: BLENKUŠ Matej; FLORIJANČIČ Miloš
| Project year: | 2011 |
