The hall replaces the historic sports hall from the 1930s, which was destroyed by arson. While the ancillary rooms and changing rooms are housed in a single-storey component, the new hall wing, consisting of the three equal parts, stands out.
The corridor in front of the changing rooms and ancillary rooms enlivens the public street space as a shop window. The higher hall building is divided by the three segmental arched windows.
The segmental arched windows illuminate the hall space from both long sides. The windows and supporting structure have the same arch shape. Instead of a room that runs through all parts on the inside, the sports area, which is almost always divided by the dividing curtains between the curved beams anyway, is divided into three spatially independent areas.
The curved beams are spanned with a steel tension band and hung in the main beams, which are placed between arched windows. The spatial effect is determined by the sequence of three identical sub-spaces.
On the courtyard side of the school, the large block of the sports hall is again divided by the three segmental arched windows, supplemented by the pairs of escape doors from the three parts of the hall. The single-storey wing connects the new sports hall with the old school building.
In the unlikely event of an evacuation, wallpaper doors lead directly from the ground-level hall to the outside.
Source: Schulz und Schulz Architekten
Photos: Gustav Willeit
