Architects::mlzd, Sollberger Bögli Architekten

Area :19200 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :Ariel Huber

Project Team :Mlzd : Pat Tanner, Daniele Di Giacinto, Alain Brülisauer, Andreas Frank, Claude Marbach, David Locher, Adrian Widmer, Camille Schneider, Eliane Lehmann, Brigitte Ballif, Delphine Kohler, Robert Ilgen, Johannes Weisser, Benjamin Minder, Julia Wurst, Pascal Deschenaux, Magdalena Haslinger, Tobias Cebulla, Claudia Schmidt, Jonatan Anders, Natascha Kellner

Project Team Sollberger Bögli Architekten : Ivo Sollberger, Lukas Bögli, Bernard Luisier, Silas Maurer, Kevin Fuchs, Josué von Bergen, Patrick Wüthrich

Structural Engineering & Facade Engineering : Dr. Lüchinger+Meyer Bauingenieure AG Zürich

Artwork : Florian Graf, floriangraf.ch

City : Lausanne

Country : Switzerland

The new football stadium is located in the Northern part of the city of Lausanne, at the point where the city's dense urban fabric gives way to the more open countryside. The sports infrastructure at the new "Centre Sportif de la Tuilière" comprises nine football pitches, arranged in two rows, in addition to an athletics facility with a training centre. The stadium picks up on the idea of the slightly offset rectangular pitches, taking it even further. Positioned at a slight angle to the training pitches, the stadium square is orchestrated to form the city-side entry point to the sports campus.

The new football stadium is intended exclusively for football matches and major events, with no peripheral uses. Its limited deployment and its location on the outskirts of the city permit a design-focused fully on the stadium as a sports facility. With its distinctive, unforgettable structure, it serves as a carrier of identity and memories. Its architecture emotionalises with the steep stands bringing spectators right up to the action on the pitch and the low roof amplifying the background noise of the chanting fans. The architecture thus contributes in no small way of boosting the team's home advantage through its structural measures. The building, history, and identity of "FC Lausanne-Sport" are all to merge into a single whole.