Berlin’s first standardised sports hall has been built in modular timber construction at the Lily-Braun-Gymnasium in Spandau. The new building, designed by the architectural partnership scholl.balbach.walker, is part of the Berlin School Construction Offensive and is one of nine planned three-field sports halls. The highlight in all of the buildings is the powerful combination of glare-free and ball-resistant OKALUX K insulating glasses from Okalux Glastechnik, the specialist in daylight systems.
“With the daylight system from Okalux we have been able to realise continuous glazing for the area between the protective walls and the hall ceiling that blends harmoniously into the 1.25 metre-wide façade grid with no disturbing horizontal subdivision,” said Michael Walker of scholl.balbach.walker architects. The fact that fast manufacturing time and quality are not contradictory is also shown by the good recyclability, durability and maintenance-free use of the selected OKALUX K insulating glazing.
Berlin has grown rapidly over the past years and with it the need for school places. The Berlin School Construction Offensive – a senate administration investment project for education, youth and family, set to run for ten years – has set itself the task of renovating and enlarging the existing school buildings and constructing 60 new ones.