Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall by Kalloyan Kollev

Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall by Kalloyan Kollev is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.

BronzeArchitecture· 2023

Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall

by Kalloyan Kollev

Client: Atek Design

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall

Arena Shumen is a part of an ambitious project for the development of a multifunctional residential complex built around the sports hall and a five stars hotel. The site with an area of 55 decares is located in an attractive zone at the entrance of Shumen. The building has several functional areas - an area for spectators, a sports and training block, an area for press and a technical zone and is designed as a multifunctional sports hall for up to 2400 spectators. It can be used for variety of events and corresponds to all the international sports federations.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Arena Shumen Multifunctional Sports Hall splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Arena Shumen is an implementation of a complex, functional flexibility in a recognisable, architectural shape.
The site is excellently connected to the urban structure and
is intended to be a part of a new, vital, secondary urban center with an area of 55 decares, with a hotel complex, residential buildings, retail outlets, open-air children's and sports playgrounds etc.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total area (m2): 5600m2
Site area (m2): 55 600m2
Tags: Multifuntional sports hall, Arena Shumen
Production Technology: The building has a monolithic, beam reinforced concrete
construction, on which steps on a steel roof.
The curved facade walls, brought out in front of the contour of the slabs, are solved with metal construction attached to the reinforced concrete structure of the building.
The roof structure is made of steel with max
support distance 45.50 m.
Design Challenge: It was a challenge to create a modern multifuntional building on such a place - full of historical layers and social commitment. We wanted to create an emblematic building that would become a symbol of the city.
Research: The concept design went through analysis of variety of factors - international sports federations standards, local teams, terrain condiotions, budget etc. The main goal was to satisfy all the regulations in a magnificant architectural form. A large team of more than 30 designers, engineers and artists participated in the process.
Inspiration: The intended vision of Arena Shumen is an organic, iconic, memorable image that will become one of the symbols of the city. A basic principle in shaping is the economically feasible expression of interior spaces into exterior volumes.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2017 in Shumen and finished in May 2018
Operation Flow: Right after the opening, Arena Shumen turn out to be one of the most interesting and vital building in the city of Shumen. Community use it not only for sports, but for variety of social activities and exhibitions.
Patents: No patents, copyrights or trademarks are concerned in this project.
Team Members: Arch. Kalloyan Kollev
Image Credits: All the images are taken by arch. Kalloyan Kollev