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Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall in Denmark by C. F. Møller Architects1

The children of Aarhus being have a unique chamber to cavort power. Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, combines the sans pareil of the sports hall again playground and is the only onliest of its benign in Denmark – probably worldwide.

The Motor Skills Hall is an buildup of the Aarhus Gymnastics and Trampoline entry. The hypothesis of the approximately 1.200 m2 of activity landscape is to invite and enter upon children aged three to ten to loom motor skills while having merry playing. feasible future users of the hall are sporting associations, schools, lad centres, kindergartens, families etc.

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Normally, when designing a traditional sports hall, the layout is strictly guided by fixed requirements – such as court sizes, heights further widths. Here the investigate has been to creatively re-think the approach of sports and play, further break ground something completely unique.

A sculpturally-formed climbing frame, called the seashell, rises clout the middle of the chamber. harbour its plentiful listing surfaces, holes further hanging might it calls to be investigated by excited boys and girls – the bravest of them guilt climb replete the accession to the top, three storeys elaborating right under the ceiling, where a derisory glass tower discloses a beautiful view of Aarhus Bay and the nearby Mols hills.

The hall also invites energy through its varied footbridges and platforms located along the length of the hall, and flexibly furnished zones called kangaroo land with trampolines besides jumping equipment, and a so-called monkey land with subordination further jungle-like density. Hanging on the barrier they bequeath find a labyrinth designed for crawling several floors up.

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The unusual spaces which arise as the extension have also been moor to on assignment use; the slanting roof show of the existing hall has for example been transformed into an indoor climbing wall.

From the outside, the hall has the appearance of a raw clamp shell, with large, diagonal windows and stairways which lend transparency and dynamics to the facade. [via]

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Architects: C. F. Møller Architects
Location: Hvidkildevej, Aarhus, Denmark
Client: VIK Gymnastik
Engineering: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S
Size: 1,600m2 (1,200m2 new building and 400m2 refurbishment)
Year: 2009-2010
Photography: Poul Nyholm, Julian Weyer
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