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Oma’s 1989 Sport Center Project for Noorddijk, Groningen, Netherlands

March 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Through Facebook photographic reportages, OMA is providing an insight into its far and less known past. Here’s a project for a sport center in Noorddijk, Groningen, Netherlands

 

In 1989 OMA designed a multifuctional sportscomplex with i.a. a swimming pool and ice skate ring (zwembad and ijsbaan in Dutch) aptly named IJsbad…

Location

The project-team consited of Rem Koolhaas, Eric van Daele, Winy Maas, Mark Schendel and Yushi Uehara. The site analysis led to…

some sketches to investigate the envelope of the different sport-fields.

Several models led to the insight of incorporating the surrounding landscape into a big box concept with a big roof leading to a big landscape.

The ground floor contains the swimming pool and squash and tennis courts. These two facilities are separated from each other by a rectangular skating rink.

Diagrams and models

OMA’s intention was to give both sports participants and spectators a dynamic feeling by creating a transparent building where as many exercising people as possible could be seen at the same time

A park with various open-air sports tracks and supporting service spaces surrounds the building.

Modelshots eastview and westview

 

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