EMÜ Sports Hall By Salto Architects, An Incredible Facade Design In The Sport Facilities Building

EMÜ Sports Hall Rounded Wall Design

A sport facilities project which is called the EMÜ Sports Hall is completed designed by the Salto Architects located in Tartu, Estonia. This site is designed in the chosen plot for the sports hall which is empty, flat field right at the roadside at the entrance to Tartu. So in addition to the functionality and the ability to integrate and organize the surrounding campus area, in a way the architectural competition is expected a greater degree of representation than the building type would normally imply. Then the spatial program of a sports hall largely prescribes the possibilities of designing the main volume at the same time.

The architect is decided to stretch all the corners of the cubic volume and to integrate the building organically with the landscape. The elevated ground is forms a “cushion” for the slightly entrenched building, thus it is optically minimising its volume and it is continues in the undulating forms. It is encompassing the outdoor sports grounds and the bicycle paths, towards a sloping valley further away. The concave lines both in plan and the elevation is created by the stretched-out corners of the building, it is gently relating to the landscape and softening the size of the building. The building is retains the sharpness at the same time, it is enabling a constantly varying, expressive views from the various angles. This is due to the optical effects of the form, clear-cut lines and finishing materials, the glass on the longer sides of the building and larch cladding with the wooden snags on the shorter ones. The latter also add to the subtle play of overall optical effects, it is being shorter and denser in the center and longer and more widely placed at the edges. The snags are colored red form the name of the building- EMÜ spordihoone.

In the interior design of this sport facility, the same attitude is continues, a limited repertoire of the considered details and takes. Which is moving around, the overall feel is light and airy, easy to navigate. The unconventional interior spaces are created by the stretched-out plan. With the details in matte and shiny black, the choice of the colors and the materials is strictly limited to smooth exposed concrete and painted carroty surfaces. The Irregularly placed bubbly interior windows opening towards the ballgames hall add a touch of frisky lightness and are echoed in the round glazed openings in gallery floor. One is reminded which a sports hall is a bodily space in a delicate way, e.g. the concave outline of the building which is creates the galleries narrowing in the middle and with the glazed openings in the floor the resulting space sharpens one’s bodily experience of space

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Photography by Kaido Haagen, Reio Avaste, and Karli Luik

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EMÜ Sports Hall Space Interior Design