WWK Arena
FCA soccer stadium. FC Augsburg is back in the Bundesliga and can only survive in paid professional soccer with a modern, media-friendly stadium that complies with the regulations of the German Football Association.
The 1-tier arena with 31,000 seats was awarded first prize in a competition and is characterized by two special features: firstly, the pitch is lowered by eight metres compared to the natural terrain, thus reducing the envelope area and achieving a very good energy balance. It is also the first CO2 emission-free stadium in Europe. On the other hand, a façade made of a total of 36,000 running meters of aluminium tubes was planned, which is interwoven with light rods, symbolic of "wrapping the opponent".
A matrix of eight elements, which are combined in different ways, creates a seemingly random mesh with different densities and structures. For the illumination, the mesh is supplemented with translucent plastic tubes fitted with LED light heads.
Titus Bernhard planned and realized the SGL Arena, formerly impuls-Arena, together with Peter Kögl / Bernhard & Kögl Planungsgesellschaft.
Service phases: LPH 1-5
Project management: Wolfgang Horn, Andreas Federspiel
Project team: Sebastian Filutowski, Szabolcs Soti, Werner Schmuck, Andrea Gehl, Daniele Spuhler, Mahesh Murthy, Fabian Kanal
Project partners: HBM Sportstätten GmbH, BAM Deutschland AG
Awards: Prize of the Langner Foundation Augsburg 2018, RedDot Award "best of best" 2019
Image rights: Jens Weber & Sven Rahm
