Location Freiburg, Germany Client Stadion Freiburg Objektträger GmbH & Co. Operator SC Freiburg Architects HPP Architekten DE – 40221 Düsseldorf www.hpp.com Author HPP Photos Klaus Polkowski Official opening October 2021 42
PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE
EUROPA PARK STADIUM IN FREIBURG
The Europa Park Stadium is the new home ground with a “cauldron” atmosphere of the Bundesliga football team SC Freiburg. The surrounding promenade is ideal for relaxing and socialising. HPP Architekten has designed a „place of pilgrimage“ for all football fans in a slightly raised position on a modest elevation. With its coherent and timeless elegance, the building corpus merges into the gentle topography in the west of Freiburg. Due to its immediate proximity to the airport and the resulting height restrictions, its roof geometry is shallow and rectangular. The zigzag of tension rods on the outside gives the stadium its unmistakable character.
Two-tier stands The stands are arranged to give spectators an ideal view of the pitch from all positions, and a special atmosphere is created by the cauldron effect. In the south, the promenade principle gives way to the fan wall. This is where the continuous single-tier stand as a kind of „stage for home fans“ forms the atmospheric germ cell for sb 2/2022
