The Augsburg football club (“FC Augsburg”) is playing in the Bundesliga (the national football league) again and needs a modern, media-conform stadium that complies with the rules of the German football association for professional football. The top-ranking area, with its 31,000 seats, won the first prize in a competition and has two special features: first, the playing field is 8 metres lower than the original terrain, which reduces the enveloping surface and results in a very good energy performance (it is also the first CO2-emission-free stadium in Europe); second, a façade consisting of 36 kilometres of aluminium tubes is planned, interwoven with light-rods, symbolically standing for “wrapping the opponent”. A matrix of eight variously combined elements produces an apparently random mesh with a variety of densities and accentuations. For illumination, this mesh is augmented by translucent plastic tubes fitted with LED lighting heads. Titus Bernhard planned the SGL Arena, formerly the impuls arena together with the Peter Kögl / Bernhard & Kögl Planungsgesellschaft.
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