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StreetDome?s overall ambition is to set new standards for urban arenas for unorganised sports. StreetDome is an open playground and social meeting place for different ages, skill levels and cultures. StreetDome is a vast and unique urban landscape for activity and recreation including a 4.500 square metre skate park, facilities street basket, parkour, boulder climbing, canoe polo etc.
Courtesy of Glifberg Lykke, CEBRA – Photographs : Mikkel Frost
The StreetDome itself is based on CEBRA?s igloo hall concept. To reduce running costs, the hall is unheated and lit primarily through daylight while the building?s surface area has been minimized through its dome shape. The roof spans around 40 meters under which there is a large open floor. This space is free of load-bearing structures and can therefore be used for any kind of sporting arrangement, in this case skateboarding. Courtesy of Glifberg Lykke, CEBRA – Photographs : Mikkel Frost
The Igloo is adapted to both the site and the specific function of skateboarding and street culture. On the outside, the dome is an actual part of the skate park, growing out of the concrete landscape like a mushroom. The structure is designed as a functional part of the park to skate on with banks, stairs and slopes along the rim. Inside, a series of pools are scooped out of the floor next to a street basket court and a central boulder structure containing a performance platf...