Sports Center Sargans / Ruprecht Architekten + HILDEBRAND

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  • 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
  • City: Sargans
  • Country: Switzerland
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Text description provided by the architects. 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.

Sports Center Sargans / Ruprecht Architekten + HILDEBRAND - Exterior Photography
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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.

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Address:Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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Cite: "Sports Center Sargans / Ruprecht Architekten + HILDEBRAND" 01 Sep 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/923990/sports-center-sargans-ruprecht-architekten-plus-hildebrand> ISSN 0719-8884

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