Dukla sportovní

1st Prize
  • Author Atelier CMJN
  • Team Lepeytre Françoise, Gaël Brulé cooperation: Hector Herca, Marisa Benedetti, Martin Roynard
  • Paris (FR)
Annotation

Pardubice and sports have an intimate relationship. The project is designed with the ambition to give a national character to the Dukla of sport. This starts with the inclusion of a large plaza leading to the main entrance. This generous space creates a new, modern and dynamic face for this important equipment. The whole site is disconnected from urban vibes. Boundaries are integrated into the landscape. The conception is guided by simplicity and an eco-friendly spirit. The modern complex is made with materials that respect the environment. The project aims at creating a natural and healthy landscape and architecture that improves the well-being of the user.

Jury Evaluation

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2nd Prize
  • Author Ján Studený, Peter Stec, Maroš Bátora, Marián Počúch
  • Bratislava (SK)
Annotation

By amplifying existing site conditions, by responding to subtle topographic shifts, by reinforcing ghosts of previous programs, a vision emerges for the future of Dukla’s athletics site. The project unifies existing topographic features, placing sports fields in landscape containers bound by a contiguous earthen mound. It creates a reciprocal relationship between sport halls and open air fields. The halls open towards landscape. Their bands of opaque walls float on a transparent rim, providing visual continuity of the ground topography. Each structure allows a direct connection to its related field, forming a synergic couple. The site opens. North-south bands of program and access easily connect the main access at the southern edge to the school and arboretum in the north. The mound crossing them traces a unifying figure of oblique slopes carrying the running track and spectator seats. Tribunes are integrated to the topography that connects them continuously. The project proposes a reciprocal relationship between sport halls and open air fields. The halls open towards landscape. Their bands of opaque walls float on a transparent rim, providing visual continuity at the ground level. Each structure allows a direct connection to its related field, forming a synergic couple.

Jury Evaluation

The chief qualities of the design, in the jurors’ eyes, are found specifically in its interior organisation and the structuring of functions – of clean and dirty zones. The carefully calculated possibilities of approaches to the realisation of the complex’s construction and the flexibility of this solution provide other aspects of the design worth praising. At the same time, the authors succeeded in resolving the centralised entrance to the entire sports complex, and making use of that for a single reception point. During the phases between Round I and Round II, the authors changed the position of the athletics hall, which however in the jury’s view did not bring about an improvement in the design.

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honourable mention
  • Author ECHOROST ARCHITEKTI
  • Team Jaroslav Hulín, Jiří Pavlíček Cooperation: Jan Kvita
  • CZ
Annotation

As it was created, the Dukla Sports Complex is excessively generous with its space. Through grouping into clusters, the sports halls and their facilities free up the space around the perimeter and are more efficient. The new complex operates on two levels: the lower is assigned to professional and organised sports, with the upper level intended for the general public and recreational or non-organised sports. The exterior space is organised by the running tracks, which lead along the main direction routes: either inside to the hall or one level up to the recreational athletics park.

Jury Evaluation

The jury deemed the design to be one of the highest quality and its authors were invited to participate in the 2nd round of the competition, where it was awarded by an honourable mention – see page 50.

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Finalist
  • Author ADR
  • Team Aleš Lapka / Cooperation: Pavel Čermák, Šárka Chroustová, Martin Kuklík
  • Prague (CZ)
Annotation

The goal of the design is to create a multi-purpose sports complex that is open to the public yet at the same time meets all criteria for highlevel professional events. The main aspects of the design are easy accessibility to the complex, openness of the entire area, respect for the current vegetation, and creation of new park spaces suitable for recreation. Thanks to our work with the terrain, there exists a natural delineation between areas for professional athletes and for recreational visitors; without any need for fencing, there will nonetheless be no clashes between users. Revitalisation of the entire complex will take place gradually, in a number of stages. In the first stage, we propose the realisation of the new group of sports halls – the athletics hall, handball hall, wrestling hall and gymnastics hall. All of these halls will form a unified whole – in a word, the metaphorical heart of the complex, which will also contain the central reception area for all of the other sections planned in the future. Each of these halls realised in this stage will make it possible to move from one to the other regardless of weather conditions. In this phase, along with the construction of the new halls, we also propose the revitalisation of the entire area of parks, outdoor sports fields, and part of the inline skating track.

Jury Evaluation

To a considerable extent, the design works with the natural terrain, and is one of the few that creates a genuine landscape that includes footaccessible rooftops for sports or relaxation. In addition, the entrance plaza formulates a pleasant public space. However, the creation of the buildings below ground level creates a significant number of problems – increased construction costs, more complicated construction schedules and no less importantly, the situation of many sports competitions in a space without natural lighting. Above all, in the view of the jury, the authors did not succeed in creating a compact sports complex, which is most evident e.g. in the separation of the gymnastics hall and the problematic formulation of its space, or the emergence of many leftover spaces.

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Finalist
  • Author CMC architects
  • Team Vít Máslo, David R. Chisholm, Adriano Ferrer Escayola Collaboration: Zuzana Kodešová, Yulia Pozynich, Yasaman Ghanaeimiyandoab
  • Prague (CZ)
Annotation

The north-south axis becomes the dynamic and exciting zone of movement. The subtle seven degree angle of the new athletics hall directs movement and flow of visitors to all the major events on site. Zone 1, east edge, has covered ball sports, which we express through a unifying roof. The columns direct and channel movement of visitors and spectators between events. Zone 2, central zone, has indoor athletics hall for non-ball sports and includes other indoor functions. Zone 3 is an outdoor field sports area, with a new ‘gateway’ press center and café on the east edge, and the reconstructed main tribune on the west.

Jury Evaluation

In this design, the jury responded positively to the attempt to formulate an urban character, to make connections to the surrounding built fabric, and detailed work with the flagstones in the public space. Also worth positive mention was the re-configured entrance space and the proposed climbing wall on the ‘blind’ façade of the athletics hall. One question left open, though, was the relative proportion of paved and unpaved surfaces. Unfortunately, the comments and recommendations of the jury were not, to a large extent, taken into consideration – the athletics hall does not meet the operational requirements, and the areas for throwing sports also remained insufficiently treated. Above all, the entire western complex of halls under an overly-proportioned roof clashes with the architectrural scale of the surroundings.

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