Sports halls belong to the group of buildings that reside in the collective memory. They are part of everyone's childhood, and for many it is a frequented place later too. The threshold there is low, the memories numerous. This assignment was to rethink the identity of all the entrance halls of the city's sports halls and swimming pools. The design puts a new layer over the existing floors, walls and ceilings. Here, the edges are used as a tool so that the hall is safeguarded as much as possible and can function optimally as a circulation hub.
The design proposal has the ambition to be all-encompassing and provide an overall answer to the fragmented fact of today. The composition of the material palette for the cladding of the entrance halls was based on materials familiar from sports halls. Each sports hall chooses its own house colour so that it also retains its own identity. The aim of the project is to restyle a large number of entrance halls in Antwerp over the medium term in order to create unity with a recognisable style. Sport A Ieperman is one of the projects, realized thogether with interior architect Dries Otten.