New Climbing Hall “Vertikale” in Brixen

The Brixen climbing hall is being built on a prominent urban site and is therefore designed with corresponding care in aesthetic and formal terms. A transparent façade carries nature and landscape into the building while the interior remains visible from outside. The multi-layered façade construction creates a moiré effect that offers the moving observer ever new impressions and places users as well as onlookers outside in a dynamic relationship with the climbing hall.

Project information

Location
Brixen
Status
Completed
Type
Commercial & office, Interiors, Neighbourhood development, Urban design, Tourism, Competition, Public spaces
Client
Gemeinde Brixen
Brief
Climbing hall
Neubau-Kletterhalle-Vertikale-in-Brixen-06

The Vertikale climbing hall in Brixen is being built on a prominent urban site close to the historic town centre and sets out to understand sports infrastructure not as mere utilitarian architecture but as a public, visible and atmospheric building block of the town.

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The building opens up to its surroundings through a transparent, multi-layered façade. Nature, landscape and urban space are drawn into the interior of the hall, while the movements of the climbers remain perceptible from outside. The façade thus becomes a mediating layer between inside and outside, between users, onlookers and urban space.

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A key design element is the multi-layered façade construction. Overlay, perforation and movement produce a subtle moiré effect that changes with the viewing angle and the movement of the observer. The climbing hall thus appears not static but alive – a building that responds to its use and carries it outwards.

Alongside the architectural effect, ecological aspects and sustainability form a central basis of the project. The climate concept uses the façade as an active interface: buffer zones, natural ventilation, heat storage and targeted solar shading reduce the need for building services and allow efficient operation. Mechanical cooling can be dispensed with, reducing both construction and running costs.

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Access is on two levels: from the south via the new town square and from the north via the town park, which lies higher up. The hall is thus embedded in the topography and the public spaces of its surroundings. Step-free access also allows uses beyond conventional sport, for instance therapeutic and educational programmes.

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Inside, the open hall concept with free-standing climbing towers creates long sightlines – outwards to the park and square as well as throughout the hall itself. The climbing concept combines different requirements and makes the facility equally usable for sport climbers, recreational users, training courses and competitions.

The Vertikale Brixen thus sees itself as contemporary sports architecture: functionally precise, ecologically considered and effective in the urban space. It makes climbing visible and creates a place where movement, landscape and architecture enter into a dynamic relationship.

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