Competition 2005, 1st prize / Zurich / Project 2005-2006 / Realization 2006-2007
Thirteen football fields over 1500 meters in length are set alongside the motorway and the railway tracks. The new infrastructure served as a training facility during the European Football Championship in 2008 and will the standards for Corinthian football for the next decades. Two nearly identical buildings, three new synthetic turf football grounds, a workshop and a new surface parking were realized. The building structure is a modular and repetitive order to layout structure and rooms. The light elements of the outer facade, which surround the buildings and the training grounds, are standard meshes and are allowed a short construction time. The pragmatic construction and the use of extremely endurable materials form the concept to protect the building from any vandalism. The utilitarian usage and the highly economical budget target left nothing in place without an absolute and necessary need.