Bandebaner Sport Pitches
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Client: The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities
Team: Stig L. Andersson, Filippa Berglund
Design phase: 2004
In 2004 SLA , working with the Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities and the Danish Ball Games Union (DBU), focussed on how sport could be better integrated into the city. SLA proposed two projects, where courts for ball games could contribute to life in the city. DBU will strengthen city sport by establishing 100-150 mini astroturf courts in various places in Denmark . The courts are mostly to be used for football, but could also be used for example for hockey and basketball.
Publication: "Sport's sense of Urban Spaces"
Valby Idrætspark (Sports Park)
The courts at Enghave Station are placed in an elongated area outside the station close to three schools, student accommodation, swimming baths and a skate-board hall. This relatively depopulated area, where the city’s housing blocks open towards open railway terrain, are turned into an urban meeting and activity area for the area’s residents. The sports facilities area situated at the eastern end, where the ground slopes down towards the station. The 21 by 13 meter mini astroturf court is embedded into the sloping terrain, which thus screens the pitch.
In the suburb of Tingbjerg the pitches are laid in connection with existing sports facilities. Sporting activities are placed in a number of overlapping coloured circles screened from the adjacent football pitch by dense bushy planting. The variation of colour and form suggests different physical activities and games. It is not a fixed system for one type of sport, but an open framework for present and future activities.
