”The park and the experiences are inspired by the surrounding cultural landscape; the meeting between the cultivated fields and the uncultivated nature”

Location

Holbæk, Denmark

Client

Holbæk Municipality

Collaboration

Morten C. Henriksen Entreprenør, Kullegård Arkitekter

Contract period

2015-2019

Contact

Hans Kragh

Landscape area

413,861 m2

Construction cost

105,000,000 DKK

Image Credits

DronePixels, Ina Maria Weinreich

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Holbæk Sportsby (Active City) is a poetic and eventful park where people meet across age groups, backgrounds; where the pensioner and the tennis player, a sensory garden and the future skatepark can be found side by side. It is an example of a park where movement, activity and play all meet in a scenic setting. The landscape consists of several large facilities ranging from athletics and petanque fields to BMX hills and a riding path, as well as hybrid zones for unorganized sports like parkour.

Holbæk Sportsby provides an incentive to move, for example because a run can take place in the beautiful surroundings. The park and the experiences are inspired by the surrounding cultural landscape; the meeting between the cultivated fields and the uncultivated nature, which is also between rational and irrational thinking; structured and playful activities. This field of tension is what makes it interesting to spend time in the park. Loops connect the park’s area and functions that consist of a network of paths with a main path moving north to south. The facilities have gathered the area’s activities and created new communities.

Året byggeri 2020,
Årets sportsbyggeri 2020 (Sports Construction Project of the Year 2020).

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Contact Hans Kragh
hkr@kragh-berglund.dk
+45 81 72 74 53