Sports Center Sargans
SPORTS CENTER SARGANS
Hildebrand, Ruprecht Architekten
ARCHITECTS
Hildebrand, Ruprecht Architekten
LOCATION
Sargans, Switzerland
PHOTOGRAPHER
AREA
4860.0 m2
PROJECT YEAR
2012
EXECUTION WOODWORK
Blumer Lehmann
HVAC ENGINEER
Waldhauser Haustechnik
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Eva Herren, Rafael Ruprecht, Thomas Hildebrand
CLIENT
Hochbauamt Canton St. Gallen
BUILDING MANAGEMENT
Ghisleni Planen Bauen
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Walt + Galmarini AG
FACADE PLANNING
Pirmin Jung, Ing für Holzbau
EXECUTION WOODWORK
Blumer Lehmann
HVAC ENGINEER
Waldhauser Haustechnik
BUILDING MANAGEMENT
Ghisleni Planen Bauen
PROJECT TEAM
Marcel Baumann, Reto Giovanoli, Massimo Della Corte, Katrin Pfäffli, Diana Zenklusen
MANUFACTURERS
\Blumer Lehmann, Serge Ferrari, Glas Trösch, Glunz AG, Knauf, Plaka, Saint Gobain Isover
Text description provided by architect.
In Sargans, a Swiss town located in the Rhine Valley, near the border with Liechtenstein, a new sports center replaces a triple gymnasium that was no longer state of the art.
The new construction consists of a quadruple gymnasium with various Fitness rooms. Because the marshy site cannot bear large loads and the existing pile foundations were to be reused, a lightweight wood structure was the ideal response to the design problem.
The client, the canton of St. Gallen, wanted a sustainable building that employs local building materials and would only require a short construction phase; these stipulations only served to underscore the suitability of wood.
Not only the building exterior, but also the interior, are characterized to a great extent by the use of this material.
The serial and dense structure goes through all parts of the building and emphasizes the architectural and spatial qualities of the main rooms: entrance foyer, gymnasium, fitness rooms.
It is made out of spruce wood and is composed of 40 thin and close to one another glued-laminated timber frames. The floor slabs in the two-story part are made with a wood-concrete composite system and a combined ash/spruce glued-laminated load bearing beams.
