World Village of Women Sports / BIG

Oct 2009

By David Basulto — Filed under: Awarded Competitions ,Featured ,Housing ,Sports Architecture ,Urban Design , BIG, Sweden

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BIG, in collaboration with AKT, Tyréns and Transsolar, just won the competition for the World Village of Women Sports in Malmo, Sweden, a 100.000sqm complex for research, education and training of women’s sports.

Rather than a program organized around a sports arena disconnected from the city, the project becomes a town inside a town, offering rich public spaces as you can see on the renderings.

The central space of the village offers a large area for public gathering, which can host professional football matches, concerts, conferences, exhibitions and flea markets. Around this space we find a series of sloped buildings, which reduce the visual impact of the complex to the adjacent neighborhood.

Between these buildings we find a pedestrian network around the main sports hall which plugs into the surrounding street networks as well as the interior galleries of Kronprinsen, turning it into a complete ecosystem of urban life.

More images and drawings after the break.

PROJECT: WVOWS
TYPE: Invited Competition
CLIENT: H-Hagen Fastighets AB
COLLABORATORS: AKT, Tyréns, Transsolar
SIZE: 100.000 M2
LOCATION: Malmo, Sweden
STATUS: 1st Prize

Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Project Leader: Nanna Gyldholm Moller
Team: Gabrielle Nadeau, Daniel Sundlin, Jonas Barre, Nicklas Antoni Rasch, Jin Kyung Park, Fan Zhang, Steve Huang, Flavien Menu, Ken Aoki

About David Basulto: Graduate Architect. Co Founder and Executive Editor of ArchDaily.com. Architecture geek.

Cite:
Basulto , David . "World Village of Women Sports / BIG" 27 Oct 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 08 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/39030>

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erik says:

I’ll be the first one to say:

YES.

# October 27, 2009 at 15:54

rodrigo bocater says:

montain dwellings + UM houses = new BIG project

and it stills great. i hope so

# October 27, 2009 at 15:59

Dan says:

nice! but the diagrams aren’t as descriptive as most BIG projects. They always give reason to the shapes so this isn’t as strong. It’s almost as if the diagrams were created to fit the project (which im sure BIG never does! haha)

# October 27, 2009 at 16:32

YES says:

..some hahaha and that s all. lunapark!

# October 27, 2009 at 17:36

DiaphanousAbyss says:

wow, I guess I’m officially done with BIG– how many shards, triangular balconies, and courtyard buildings can you do?

Learn from your buddy Ramus– He keeps it fresh!!!

# October 27, 2009 at 18:04

antonia says:

I agree! If “Ramus” is insiders code for REX-NY.

# October 28, 2009 at 09:35

jeff says:

nice, but reminds me of Crater city project by French architect Chaneac designed in the 1960′s-1970′s also similar to Quartier les Poetes that is due to be demolished in Pierrefitte sur Seine, north of Paris

# October 27, 2009 at 18:18

blackstone says:

sorry. not sold here. take away all the brightly colored “growies” in the perspectives and and i’m afraid the reality would be a not very nice urban space.

# October 27, 2009 at 18:22

Sissie says:

do u guys really think it to be nice?i can’t see any thing creative and talented in it………….not to mention the nice part……

# October 27, 2009 at 19:15

laar says:

BIG is one of the best salespersons in our industry. However, I don’t appreciate their design as much as their marketing strategy. They just repeat some similar ideas again and again.

# October 27, 2009 at 20:24

kn says:

Think BIG is not making an artwork, but ideas which would be evoluted in another context. This idea itself is already creative,isnt it??

# October 27, 2009 at 20:45

james says:

agreed!

# October 28, 2009 at 04:45

Ronen Bekerman says:

Repeat? let see… Zaha Hadid, Frank O Garry, Richard Meier, Daniel Libeskind… should i go on? Every architect has some kind of repeat of some sort…

Some may say it is reusing of the same idea, to save time and make more money – others might think of it as the will to further explore and improve on an idea. After all an ideal idea should work for all kinds of projects so why not look the same?

Moshe safdie’s habitat 67 concept comes to mind, he did some versions of it even if not all built too. it was a part of his dwelling thesis that came to live and further explored.

# October 28, 2009 at 05:02

if only the world can be reduced to dumb diagram

# October 27, 2009 at 23:04

eb says:

They look like some cheesy resorts in Cancun. I would leave pyramid-like shapes to the ancient egyptians.

# October 27, 2009 at 23:13

me says:

i know how u feel

# October 28, 2009 at 00:56

Well, I love it! Shards or not it is very interesting and offers some unique spaces in and out. I also love the way the explain it all with a set of simple diagrams.

# October 28, 2009 at 04:56

james webb says:

forget about the architecture – imagine the users of this place! i could easily hang around there all day.

# October 28, 2009 at 06:59

mike says:

Hehe..I was waiting for a comment like this…and I totally agree :-D

# October 28, 2009 at 12:52

Zack says:

The negative space created by this complex is very feminine.Both in elevation and in plan. Very appropriate for a building designed for women.

Not to get too pop culture on you, but it reminds me of the void between Jesus and Mary Magdeline in the Last Supper. DaVinci Code says what? This project gives me a BIG one.

# October 28, 2009 at 08:10

pundy says:

freaky stuff.

# October 28, 2009 at 08:50

zigwin says:

I’ll have to agree with previous comments concerning the diagrams: seems sought.

In addition to that: Pink triangles! Are your freeking kidding me?

# October 28, 2009 at 09:32

Elver Gun says:

I think its time for these guys to search for other Great Ideas…enough of the same thing, but I still like it.

# October 28, 2009 at 10:58

hunter says:

in 2009 a complex for women sport???
what would change the organisation and architecture if it was not for women but for men or mixed? what a commision is this?

# October 28, 2009 at 11:14

panza says:

Looks like women’s vagina especially from the top. even thought creates it nice public space

# October 28, 2009 at 15:27

dneus says:

The ubiquitous diagrams produced by architects BIG are reminiscent of instructions for folding paper-planes. The effect is to make the process seem self-evident, reducing architecture to a linear progression resulting in a single, inevitable outcome. This approach belies the inevitable alinearities of consultation, budget, design development etc. Not to mention the flux of stylistic trends and interpretation!

# October 28, 2009 at 16:54

T.O.O.M.U.C.H. says:

Yes is More? – Maybe, but BIG is TOOMUCH.

# October 30, 2009 at 05:25

Tosh says:

Yes,but no.

Looks too logical. The public spaces might end up being ok (not full of people at any point), but the private ones are completely dominated by the public ones – probably will end up being really squashed by the ambitious external forms of the building.

# November 12, 2009 at 06:23

Alia says:

The concept is well developed

I liked the design. but since i come from a very hot climate country (the UAE), i cant imagine a building with this amount of glass used in it !!.
But in general it looks great

# November 29, 2009 at 11:21

pampurce says: