Kastelli Community Centre is a place for learning, education, sports and culture. 

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Architects: Lahdelma & Mahlamäki

Location: Oulu, Finland

Principal Designer: Ilmari Lahdelma

Area: 24650.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: KUVIO, Pekka Agarth

Lifecycle Project / Leed: Schools Gold

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From the architect. Kastelli Community Centre is a place for learning, education, sports and culture. The many users of the Centre include the comprehensive school, upper secondary school for youth and adults and a library. There are also facilities for the adult education and a youth centre. Variety of sport halls of different sizes serve athletic clubs after school days. The largest sports hall with 800 seats is used also for floor ball, basketball and volleyball games in the national league level.
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Due to the complexity of the project the City of Oulu arranged a two-phase design competition in 2009 - 2010: the entry called ?hyrrä? (?gyroscope?) was declared the winner of the anonymous competition. The winning entry succeeded in segmenting the impressive public building mass into small-scale parts that together make up a sympathetic village and increase the sense of community. The scale of the building parts was adjusted to suit the children. Playf...