The design of the new sports, culture and community centre in Klipspruit is the architectural embodiment of local potential realised.
At the end of last year, Nike Shapa Soweto, a new centre for “athletes, culture shapers and fashion makers”, opened in Klipspruit.
The pavilion at its centre — a slick, modernist-looking glass box with eye-catching timber louvres— ended up gracing scores of magazine covers and raked in several awards. After much consultation with the local community, the facility now consists of the two original football pitches and five-a-side soccer fields as well as a professionally designed skate park, basketball courts, an athletics oval, a cross-country running track, dance studios and even a makers’ space.
By sensitively considering the facility’s cultural context and plugging into local spatial conventions, the designers gave the community an instant, intuitive sense of its purpose and character. Jacobsz explains that he removed the back wall of the pavilion and replaced it with glass so that it faced the yard and became open and welcoming.
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