BRIEF Development of a new DFB Campus, which concentrates the various areas of the association in one location | ADDED VALUE The sports fields and buildings are not separated but arranged along a main axis, which is designed as a communicative link within the campus.
DFB CAMPUS, FRANKFURT A.M. | GERMANY The DFB Campus with its football pitches, sports facilities and new building is embedded in Frankfurt’s city forest on the site of the former racecourse. It is within this green setting with a natural boundary to the surrounding areas that the mixture of structural components, sports fields, small open places, and clearings form a joint campus. The required space, including administrative areas, press centre, conference rooms, athletes’ accommodation, and state-of-the-art sports facilities, is arranged below a single long-span roof around the individual sports fields and exterior space.
The north-south-oriented covered sports boulevard connects all components and facilitates orientation. It has been designed as a communicative link with casual meeting places to watch the activities on the football pitches but also bring together the two independent institutions, administration and academy.
Typology: Office building, education, and sports centre
Constructed volume: GFA 57,000m², GIV 380,000m³
Client: Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. (DFB)
Architect: kadawittfeldarchitektur
Cooperation: Landscape design Greenbox Landschaftsarchitekten, general contractor Groß & Partner
Completion: 2019 - 2022
Competition: 2015 – 1st prize