FSF sports and leisure centre in Fliess

Location Fließ, Austria

Client Fließ municipality Architects AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH AT – 1020 Wien www.awg.at Landscape planning DnD Landschaftsplanung Structural engineer Werner Zanon

Author AllesWirdGut

Photos AllesWirdGut tschinkersten fotografie Official opening August 2021

LIVELY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

FSF SPORTS AND LEISURE CENTRE AT THE KALVARI IN FLIESS

Within walking distance of the school and the village centre, the local authority in Fliess has been building a new sports and leisure centre with tournament and training pitches, spectator stands, swimming, athletics, tennis and trend sports facilities and a sizeable clubhouse for the local football club. For the community of just under 3,000 inhabitants, this is a landmark project, made possible by 15,000 hours of voluntary work.

The starting point was the sports ground that the municipality has been operating in Fliesserau since 1964 and which is used by the football club with all its teams. This sports ground was located eight kilometres away from the village centre in the valley and for this reason could not be used by either the new middle school or the primary school. The aim was to build a sports and leisure facility close to the educational facilities as an important measure to revitalise the village centre and make it more compact.

With an „on-site“ workshop, a broad citizen participation process and a participatory competition, an exemplary project was implemented in close cooperation between the local authority, the population and planners.

Horizontally stratified levels The topography and shape of the site called for sensitive interventions and a sparing use of the available space. The guiding principle of the design was precisely cut, horizontally stratified levels, which were placed on/over and at the edges of the slope and embedded in the landscape space along the contour lines.

With its storey slabs stacked in this way, the clubhouse is also prominent and visible from afar. The building, which marks the south-eastern corner of the site, closes off the sports facility yet opens up to the landscape with a cantilevered running track and an open storey glazed on all sides. A floating roof along the football pitch forms a spectator stand and also serves as an inrun to the long jump pit.

With its striking sequence of structural elevations, the clubhouse blends in with the terraces of the alpine slope, while its basement is embedded in the terrain. The changing, match officials‘ and coaches‘ rooms as well as the showers and toilets are located at ground level. An external staircase leads visitors from the main entrance at pitch level to the upper floor with its stands, running track and clubroom. The pavilion-like room below the floating roof construction accommodates the club bar.

Solid outward impression Fair-faced concrete, glass, steel and wood are the few materials used in the design and conveying a solid outward impression. The pronounced cantilever of the clubhouse‘s floating roof – as well as the primary structure, retaining walls and the running track – has been made of fair-faced concrete, as more expertise was available for this construction method among the volunteer workers from the local population. In this way, it was possible to realise a girder grid structure carried on 30 columns with up to 6 m of unsupported cantilever.