The latter serves primarily as a venue for sporting events as well
as for the home games of VfB Friedrichshafen in the 1st Volleyball
Bundesliga and the Champions League. The sports pool, which
was opened in June 2019 and sees itself as a family and wellness
pool, but is also suitable for club and school sports, is located right
between the shopping centre and the sports area. It presents itself as
an inviting, elegant new building with filigree details, which appears
as a self-confident centre in a heterogeneous environment.
FLOWING (BATHING) LANDSCAPE
The surrounding glass facades make the Sportbad Friedrichshafen
recognizable already from the outside as a bathing landscape
which develops around a central inner courtyard. The division into
a spacious bathing area with swimming pool and children’s pool on
the ground floor and an “intimate”, well-structured upper floor with
sauna, catering and staff rooms is also easy to read. The idea of the
rooms fluently merging into one another on two floors is reflected in
a quasi-moving architecture. The carefully composed ups and downs
of the green roof areas with their projecting edges alone give an idea
of how important a holistic building concept was to the architects.
SPORTY FRESH BATHING WORLD
The appearance of the bathing world on the ground floor is
characterized in particular by the high proportion of daylight, the
spaciousness and the consistently sporty, fresh and yet unobtrusive
colours. The bathers should be able to move freely between the open
areas. The walls and ceilings appear in velvety fair-faced concrete or
with warm wood cladding. All swimming pools and pool surrounds as
well as the floors of all showers, changing rooms and access areas are
provided with finely coordinated and precisely defined tile coverings
of the brand Agrob Buchtal.
The essential link for the seamless transitions between the individual
bathing areas are the porcelain stoneware floor tiles of the Trias
series from Agrob Buchtal, which are uniformly finished in zinc grey.
They were used in two formats: as a filigree 5 x 5 cm mosaic and as
30 x 60 cm tiles. This larger format was laid in free bond above all
in the changing rooms as well as in the access and rest zones. The
mosaic format also realized with ceramic tiles of the brand Agrob
Buchtal can be found around the swimming pools and in the wet
areas. On the one hand, because it reliably meets the requirements
of slip resistance class R11/B and on the other hand, because
connections to other components such as drains, columns, gutters
etc. or drainage areas can be realized more easily and aesthetically
with this small format.
THE WALLS AND CEILINGS APPEAR IN VELVETY
FAIR-FACED CONCRETE OR WITH WARM
WOOD CLADDING.