The almost 70,000 square meters of the Heuried Sports Center include programs of a broad variety of sizes. This makes it difficult to grasp the compound as a whole. The new winter sports hall wishes to rearrange that group of scattered elements. The bold volume that will house the ice rink and related uses is inserted as a piece whose purpose is to provide spatial reference. The dialogue with the environment is established through the treatment of the facades: an almost sculptural rhythm of vertical supports closes the building onto the outdoor tracks located to the west; in contrast, the opening through the terrace of access connects the center, both perceptively and functionally, with the remaining programs that dot the tree-filled prairie stretching southwards...[+]