Skatepark Housing, Stuttgart

Project Description

Sound absorbing housing and weather protection of an existing skatepark.

The roof structure framework consists of squentially arranged, curved glued-laminated timber beams at a spacing of 4,0 meters. The girders, having a span of 25 meters, are laterally braced by the profiled sheeting, which has been executed with perforated webs in order to fulfill the noise absorption requirements. The housing has a length of 65 meters.

Client

City of Stuttgart
Garden-, Cemetry- and Forestry Department

Architect

HERRMANN + BOSCH Architects, Stuttgart

Planning-/Construction-Period

10/2014 - 03/2015

Awards

"Exemplary Construction" award of the Association of German Architects (BDA)
"State Prize of Building Culture, Baden-Wuerttemberg, 2016"