2011/10 Architecture News: Letter from Turkey / Wallpaper*
“Lüleburgaz Yildizlari Football Academy (LYFA), Lüleburgaz, by DDRLP
This football-training centre for children barely registers on the radar; the multipurpose indoor arena, with classrooms and changing rooms between playing fields, hugs the flat landscape. Rather than blindly follow today’s fashion for iconic buildings, DDRLP had wider ambitions: to provide greater opportunity for social interaction in the town. An elliptical plaza and pedestrian bridge connect the academy to a public park. People’s knowledge and craft are utilised to put the locally sourced materials together in the construction process and to give the building more ‘soul’. Excavated soil forms the base of the grandstands.”
By Tony Minichiello
*© 2011 Wallpaper.com/ 12.10.2011