Streetmekka in Viborg, Jutland Sport Centre Building, Architects, Images, Danish Design
Streetmekka in Viborg
Modern Sport and Activities Centre, Danmark – design by EFFEKT
20 Jan 2017
Streetmekka
Architects: EFFEKT
Location: Viborg, Jutland, denmark
Vacant industrial warehouse transforms into a vibrant cultural hub for youth culture, sports and street art

EFFEKT was today announced winners of the competition for a new Streetmekka in Viborg, DK. The winning proposal is a new cultural center including facilities for a variety of self-organized sports like parkour, skate, bouldering, basketball, trial, as well as a series of customized workshop areas for DJing and music production, an animation studio, fabrication lab and artist studios. Social spaces and designated hangout zones are strategically interwoven into the functional program and distributed throughout the building.
Breathing new life into abandoned industrial buildings

The existing building originally served as a windmill factory and is a typical example of one of the many mass-produced warehouse or factory buildings from the late 1960’s and 70’s found in almost every suburban industrial zone in the western world. Typically constructed from prefabricated concrete panels or corrugated steel, these industrial leftovers are perceived as having little or negligible historic, cultural and architectural value.

Therefore, the main question behind EFFEKT?s proposal was: how can we convert, re-use and ...