Estonian Sports Hall Features Cohesive Integration Between Building and Landscape

Estonian firm Salto Architects recently completed a sports hall at the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu, Estonia. Here is the press release for the building, released by the architects: 

"The chosen plot for the sports hall was an empty, flat field right at the roadside at the entrance to Tartu, so in addition to functionality and ability to integrate and organize the surrounding campus area, the architectural competition, in a way, expected a greater degree of representation than the building type would normally imply. At the same time, the spatial program of a sports hall largely prescribes the possibilities of designing the main volume. We decided to stretch all corners of the cubic volume, and to integrate the building organically with landscape.

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