Pulsen Community Center

Location: Balling, Denmark
Type: Open Competition
Size: 3500 M2 / 38,000 SF Building, 18,500 M2 / 200.000 SF Landscape
Program: Community Center & Sports Facility
Client: City of Balling
Budget: N/A

The sports and community center Pulsen unites an array of exiting facilities under one roof. With a combination of baths, fitness areas, doctor offices and a community gathering spaces the design creates a unique new building typology, which aims at promoting interaction and creativity for all the inhabitants of the city of Balling.

Pulsen is designed around a central space that allows people to enter from two main access points, uniting the existing pedestrian routes in the area. This central area serves as an informal living room for the city and connects directly to all the new building facilities, providing easy access to all the buildings program elements.

A new sports park area surrounds and interacts with the new building offering a wide array of fitness and sports activities for both winter and summer making the Pulsen the new pivot point for activities and interaction in the city of Balling.

The building design incorporates several green building technologies making it close to energy neutral and a landmark development in green building design.