2021-2024
IOANNINA
PRE-CONCEPT, CONCEPT, SCHEMATIC DESIGN
PRE-CONCEPT, CONCEPT, SCHEMATIC DESIGN
A multi-sport arena layout (combining an indoor hall of 3000 spectators and a multi-sport training facility in three levels).
The new arena and training facility will be one of the finest mixed-use arenas anywhere in the world for athletes, spectators, visitors and the wider community, delivering a major new landmark for Ioannina.
The project also pioneers the idea of an ongoing life for the arena beyond game – tournament days.
The design of the facilities is led by sports innovation focusing on health, wellness, science and technology, while Concepts and Design approaches such as:
are the constituent elements of the overall design.
What we wanted to deliver:
The new arena and training facility is configured as a large container of great versatility to host multiple sports modalities and large capacity events in general, in which the visual connection between interior and exterior becomes one of the directing threads of the project with the aim of making sports practice visible from the outside as a measure to promote sports.
To achieve the greatest degree of versatility of its spaces, the different sports modalities are grouped in two large spaces: on the one hand, an indoor hall of 3000 spectators, on the other, a multi-sport training facility in three levels with the equivalent capacity of 4 indoor basketball courts and room spaces for directed activities and gyms.
Each of these interior spaces will be characterized by different nuances of light and color.
This spatial organization of uses at the same time offers great versatility in the management of the building, by allowing each of the main uses (pavilion, gym, and cafeteria) to function independently. The facades of the building are configured as a dynamic system in permanent change, in which the superposition of two different geometries, horizontal striping on the exterior leaf and checkerboard on the interior leaf, alternate with greater or lesser intensity depending on the nuances of the interior and exterior lighting.
