Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum by Evolution Design

Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum by Evolution Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2016 Stříbrná cena A' Design Award in Architektura Competition Category.

StříbroArchitektura· 2016

Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum

by Evolution Design

Client: Evolution Design

Stříbrná cena A' Design Award Winner in Architektura Category

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The Design

About Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum

Sportovní centrum Neumatt je sportovní hala se třemi hřišti ve Strengelbachu ve Švýcarsku. Uvnitř jsou zelená, žlutá, červená, oranžová a modrá barva použity jak jako dekorace, tak jako orientační systém, přičemž šatny jsou označeny barvou místo čísel. Prosklené horní patro využívá kapilární sklo, které přivádí denní světlo hluboko do haly a snižuje oslnění. Tepelné čerpadlo využívající geotermální energii budovu v zimě vytápí a v létě chladí, takže klimatizace není zapotřebí. Omítnutý sokl nese vzor sportovních ikon.

The Recognition

About the Stříbrná cena A' Design Award

Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum je vítězem Stříbrné ceny A' Design Award, mimořádně prestižního uznání udělovaného designům nejvyšší kvality, nádherným a působivým. Stříbrní vítězové jsou nesmírně brilantní a mimořádně kreativní díla, která dokládají vynikající odbornost, talent a bystrost svých designérů. Očekává se, že Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum bude nádherným, reprezentativním dílem, pozoruhodně profesionálním a hluboce inovativním. Tento design, který získal Stříbrnou cenu A' Design Award, je vysoce pozoruhodný, obdivovaný vynález, který prospívá a posouvá hranice umění, vědy, designu a technologií. Neumatt Sports Center Sportovní centrum je výtvor, kterému mnozí závidí, který vyvolává touhy, přináší pozitivní pocity a vzněcuje úžas a údiv.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Neumatt is not one of the many standard sports centers in Switzerland. Inside, it is a true color burst of green, yellow, red, orange and blue. These rainbow-like colors not only help children to navigate around, but it’s also more playful and taps into the way children see the world. Outside, the translucent glass façade reflects the color of the sky and the rendered base is complemented with a special sport icon pattern that gives the building its unique identity.
Dimensions & Packaging: 3-pitch sports hall. Building plot size is 4’100 m2. Floor area is 2’300 m2. Building volume is 16’700 m3.
Tags: Sports center, sports hall, sport, Switzerland
Production Technology: Inside, color is used both decoratively and as a navigation device. Changing rooms are colored rather than numbered and each shower room is a simple concrete and wood design that is enlivened by bright shades. The glazed upper level delivers perfect natural light by using a capillary glass that minimizes glare and also maximizes thermal insulation. There is no air-conditioning, instead an ecological geothermal heat pump, which heats the building in winter and cools it in summer.
Design Challenge: As the building was built by raising taxes of the local community, cost-efficiency was a very crucial aspect. The use of bright color concept inside helped to enliven the building, which is very simple in both materials and construction. To reduce the impact outside, the building accommodates the slight slope by being higher at one end than the other. The facade consist of the upper glazed level that changes color depending on viewpoint and the time of day and the vivid lower patterned base.
Research: At lot of time was invested in exploring the ecological potential of the sports hall. Aiming to reduce artificial lighting, a special capillary glass was used that maximizes natural light deep in the space and minimizes glare. By analyzing the natural airflow access across the building, natural night cooling was installed through openings in the façade and the roof to avoid installing air-conditioning. For heating and free cooling in summer a geothermal heat pump was used.
Inspiration: Often sports centers can be simple and dark spaces that provide required functions, but don’t inspire or motivate people to spend time there. By designing a bright sports hall flooded with daylight, the architects wanted to encourage people to spend more time doing sports and truly enjoy being there. Also children have different needs from adults, therefore using color was very important. Not only is it easier for them to navigate with color, but it’s also more playful.
Project Duration: Building works started in August 2014 and finished in December 2015 in a village called Strengelbach in central Switzerland
Operation Flow: Neumatt is used as a sports center by the local municipality, schools and sport clubs. The main sports hall can be easily transformed to 3-pitch hall.
Team Members: Marco Noch
Patrik Uihlein
Stefan Camenzind
Image Credits: Sue Baer Fotografie