Floorplan and spatial structure

The building is divided into three parts: The basement of the existing building is incorporated into the new building and emphasised as an independent body in the plinth. Its function is to create a divide between the public areas and those used internally by VfB. Access to the athletes’ area with changing rooms for visiting teams, youth teams, VfB II, coaches and referees is via the pavilion building to the south. A sunken courtyard with a football pitch opens up in the centre and provides natural lighting for the corridor areas in the basement. This is where the connection to the old clubhouse is located. In the patio, the atrium also creates a natural partition between the public area and the club grounds.

The newly created space above the basement serves as a “grandstand” facing the neighbouring Schlienz Stadium and as a terrace for the club restaurant. The recessed, transparent volume of the ground floor with reception, trainer offices, meeting and training rooms rests on the solid plinth. The upper storey is designed as a cantilevered component. On three sides it is flush with the outer contours of the plinth. The weight and gymnastics rooms, sauna and spa areas as well as doctors’ and physiotherapy facilities are housed behind the likewise fully glazed volume. All loads on the upper floor are transferred via filigree tension cables to the roof and further into the core area of the building, creating highly adaptable, column-free spaces.

The house is supplied with electricity and heat via a CHP unit with combined heat and power generation and is cooled in summer via the component activation of the concrete ceilings. The grass heating of the neighboring training pitches is used to produce hot water in summer.