Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 06/2012
Copenhagen Arena
Teilnahme
Architektur
Bauingenieurwesen
Architektur
Bauingenieurwesen
Landschaftsarchitektur
Bauingenieurwesen
Erläuterungstext
The form of this building captures the energy and excitement of the activities that it will stage on the inside and manifests this energy in the outside appearance of the building envelope. Although located in a developing area of the city, we believed the Arena should reach out to the whole of Copenhagen and we have design it to be a 360° experience with no obvious back. The functional needs of the Arena have been addressed in detail so that the back-of-house spaces are arranged in an efficient layout on the ground floor, away from the public.
The design is devised from logical thinking; it is efficient in its use of space, underpinned by a rational geometry that makes it logical to construct, utilizes glazing prudently to ensure good energy performance, focuses high quality finishes in the public areas and integrates architecture and engineering to make it sustainable and efficient. The warm and inviting form is manifest from the outside and gives the Copenhagen Arena a unique and memorable quality in keeping with the sensibilities of Danish design.
A 15,000-seat Arena is inevitably a large building especially when inserted into a masterplan of mixed use accommodation; we have reduced the volume to a minimum and used curves to minimize the impact of the building on the surrounding area. With the sound reduction required it is inevitably a very internalized building form so we have used the human scale of the foyer and circulation up to the upper levels and made these into a sculpted wooden element which sits behind the façade like a ‘ship in a bottle’.
The design is devised from logical thinking; it is efficient in its use of space, underpinned by a rational geometry that makes it logical to construct, utilizes glazing prudently to ensure good energy performance, focuses high quality finishes in the public areas and integrates architecture and engineering to make it sustainable and efficient. The warm and inviting form is manifest from the outside and gives the Copenhagen Arena a unique and memorable quality in keeping with the sensibilities of Danish design.
A 15,000-seat Arena is inevitably a large building especially when inserted into a masterplan of mixed use accommodation; we have reduced the volume to a minimum and used curves to minimize the impact of the building on the surrounding area. With the sound reduction required it is inevitably a very internalized building form so we have used the human scale of the foyer and circulation up to the upper levels and made these into a sculpted wooden element which sits behind the façade like a ‘ship in a bottle’.