Clemens Kirsch Architektur

Liebenau Triple Gym

The building of the triple gym is placed on the site as detached monolith; on one hand, in order to allow space for the existing substance, and on the other to communicate its autonomous identity as a building. At the same time, the positioning makes it an intimate place, harmoniously relating to all buildings in the ensemble.

 

The concept combines an optimally functioning site development with a compact arrangement of all functions within an unostentatious, clearly readable building. For reasons of cost, the objective was a building of simplicity and compactness, implemented technically in the surfacing of the shell; this modesty is countered by the chosen, haptically sensuous materials.

 

The gym is constructed in steel. Steel girder trusses with a system height of 140 cm cross the transverse side of the gym and are load-distributed on a surrounding truss girder made of tubular steel. Its enormous constructional height means this needs minimal supports – one longitudinal, one transverse.

Procedure

EU-wide open competition

Place

Graz, AT

Client

BIG

Planning

2010

Effective Area

approx. 2.000 m²

Construction costs

approx. 4,6 Mio. €

Team

Oliver Berlinghoff, Clemens Kirsch, Hannah Neumann

Visualization

ZOOM VP

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Plans

Figure Ground Plan
Site Plan
Ground floor
Basement
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