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The Landskrona Sport Hall

Landskrona, Sweden
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A weightless roof hovering above a glass volume.

The Sports hall for the City of Landskrona (Sweden) by Arne Jabcobsen consists of a rectangular roof of 52x92 m, a podium elevated 20 cm over the ground and a transparent glass wall in-between. In order to remove every vertical sensation and reinforce the horizontal character, the columns are shifted to the inside of the hall and split in two.

In order to remove every vertical sensation and reinforce the horizontal character, the columns are shifted to the inside of the hall and split in two. The structure and the technical installations are hidden above a suspended ceiling, turning the roof into an abstract apparatus, breaking with Mies' ideology of the structure as the main space defining element. The focus shifts from the construction to the volume.

A ball field with its bleachers is sunk into the podium, two wooden pavilions house ancillary rooms. The wardrobes as well as the technical areas are inside the podium. While the architectural language and spatial organization still roots in the International Style, a new facet emerges as the expression shifts to "[...] a dematerialized architecture, an architecture without gravity. The dream of a hovering plane" as described by Thau and Vindum.

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bostjan, February 12th, 2021
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