As small town communities often lack inviting and active public spaces, the Activity Landscape introduces a model for a low-cost sports hall that offer an outdoor and sheltered informal space that playfully encourage activity and recreation, all day and all year around.

© Rune Johansen

Architects: JAJA Architects

Location: 7673 Harboøre, Denmark

Area: 2000.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Rune Johansen

Engineering: Vision+

Foundation: Lokale- og Anlægsfonden

© Rune Johansen

As small town communities often lack inviting and active public spaces, the Activity Landscape introduces a model for a low-cost sports hall that offer an outdoor and sheltered informal space that playfully encourage activity and recreation, all day and all year around.
© Rune Johansen

The first example of the Activity Landscape opened earlier this year and have become a popular focal point in Harboøre, DK. In contrary to traditional sports halls that are tailor-made for formal sports and mostly used during the winter, the Activity Landscape creates a seamless transition between the interior and exterior space, which opens up for a wider range of informal as well as formal usage. From in- and outdoor skating, soccer, flee-markets or concerts, the Activity Landscape offers a new type of pub...