Due to the prestigious integration into the urban planning, the sports hall forms a prelude or final point in the school campus. An important design criterion was the harmonic integration of the building into the neighborhood ? according to the dimensions as well as the color interpretation inspired by the surrounding facade materials.

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Architects: h4a Architekten

Location: Karl-Schefold-Straße 16, 89073 Ulm, Germany

Area: 3175.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Zooey Braun

Owner: Stadt Ulm ? Zentrales Gebäudemanagement

© Zooey Braun

From the architect. Due to the prestigious integration into the urban planning, the sports hall forms a prelude or final point in the school campus. An important design criterion was the harmonic integration of the building into the neighborhood ? according to the dimensions as well as the color interpretation inspired by the surrounding facade materials.
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For that, the 18 m high cubic building is covered by a structure of brilliant white shiny aluminum fins in vertical order and slightly rotated. Particularly the 232 belts serve as sun protection for the rooms behind, but by the different light rotation of the fins also selectively directs the light into the inner space.
Depending on the usage, the facade appears from massiv...