Archetech Issue 47 2020 | Page 83

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.