Sports Center Sargans, In Sargans, a Swiss town located in the Rhine Valley, near the border with Liechtenstein, a new sports center replaces a triple gymnasium that was no longer state of the art.
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The new construction consists of a quadruple gymnasium with various Fitness rooms. Because the marshy site cannot bear large loads and the existing pile foundations were to be reused, a lightweight wood structure was the ideal response to the design problem.
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The client, the canton of St. Gallen, wanted a sustainable building that employs local building materials and would only require a short construction phase; these stipulations only served to underscore the suitability of wood. Not only the building exterior, but also the interior, are characterized to a great extent by the use of this material.
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The serial and dense structure goes through all parts of the building and emphasizes the architectural and spatial qualities of the main rooms: entrance foyer, gymnasium, fitness rooms. It is made out of spruce wood and is composed of 40 thin and close to one another glued-laminated timber frames. The floor slabs in the two-story part are made with a wood-concrete composite system and a combined ash/spruce glued-laminated load bearing beams.
Project Info
Architects: HILDEBRAND, Ruprecht Architekten
Country: Switzerland, Sargans
Area: 4860 m²
Year: 2012
Photographs: Roman Keller
Manufacturers Blumer Lehmann, Glas Trösch, Glunz AG, Knauf, Plaka, Saint Gobain Isover, Serge Ferrari: Blumer Lehmann
Project Team: Marcel Baumann, Reto Giovanoli, Massimo Della Corte, Katrin Pfäffli, Diana Zenklusen
Client: Hochbauamt Canton St. Gallen
Facade Planning: Pirmin Jung, Ing für Holzbau
Execution Woodwork: Blumer Lehmann
Hvac Engineer: Waldhauser Haustechnik
Building Management: Ghisleni Planen Bauen
Lead Architects: Eva Herren, Rafael Ruprecht, Thomas Hildebrand
Structural Engineer: Walt + Galmarini AG
