Det nye Stålmagasin 2025 er udkommet og byder på et stærkt fagligt indblik i, hvordan stål bruges og udvikles i moderne byggeri. Magasinet samler cases, tendenser og perspektiver fra hele branchen og fungerer som en inspirationskilde for alle, der arbejder med konstruktion, arkitektur og byggetekniske løsninger.
The new Bonfiglioli headquarters in Bologna, Italy, designed by Peter Pichler Architecture and engineered by Arup, is an example of how steel framed construction has proven the optimal solution for an office building showcasing, both complexity in its architectural elegance and functional form, and integration with ambitious facades and building services features, and sustainability outcomes.
Presenters and contributors:
Lorenzo Marengo, Matteo Testini, Paolo Cresci, Alice Quinterio, all Arup
SAP Garden celebrates its opening 27 September, 2024. The project echoes the same democratic ideals as its historic surroundings, uniting sports and local community in a state-of-the-art sports arena.
Built on the site of the former Olympic Velodrome and with Frei Otto and Günther Behnisch’s iconic Olympic Stadium as its neighbour, the new SAP Garden arena is informed by the legacy of its location and surroundings. The 62,500m² arena project is designed by 3XN in collaboration with CL MAP and landscape architects Latz + Partner for client Red Bull.
“We are pleased to be opening the new SAP Garden arena, marking a new era for sport in the city of Munich,” says Jan Ammundsen, Senior Partner at 3XN. “The project has been a meaningful opportunity for us to extend the architectural legacy of the Olympic Park. It was important for our design to fit the modern sports facility into the existing, historic Olympic Park in a seamless way. We hope that it will become a focal point that gathers locals to experience and take part in sports.”
The sports arena is the new home of ice hockey team EHC Red Bull Munich and basketball team Bayern Munich while three additional ice rinks serve as training and public facilities. The bowl can gather up to 10,700 spectators for ice hockey and 11,500 for basketball. Beyond the sports facilities, the arena offers three levels of VIP areas, merchandise shops, a large restaurant, a gaming room, offices and conference rooms, a parking garage and a public rooftop terrace.
Melting into its historic context
Adding a new structure into Behnisch & Partner’s protected Olympic Park landscape posed a complex design challenge: how to respect the integrity of the park while also accommodating the significant spatial needs of the world class sport facility? To solve this, the design team concealed the arena’s three additional ice rinks underneath an artificial hill that organically continues the park’s existing pathways and landscape design. The arena itself is oval-shaped and asymmetrical in both its height and shape, forming an organic appearance which together with a green roof lets the building melt into the park and the cityscape.
“The Olympic Park is both in its architecture and landscape designed around the human scale,” says Ammundsen. “The sports facilities are nestled in the green terrain which rolls and undulates around the now iconic structures. SAP Garden is designed with careful consideration for these existing characteristics to both preserve and also add a new element to the uniquely harmonious relationship between the buildings and the park.”
The arena’s façade is dynamic and welcoming with vertical pilaster strips that swing upwards and accentuate the glass-panelled entrances. Each of the 260 pilaster strips are unique in their geometry with the largest being over 18 metres tall and weighing one ton. This gives the building a dynamic façade expression – at the same time simple and complex.
SAP Garden is designed as a catalyst for activity – both on game days and ‘off days’. As a sports arena, it is a destination for the many with the ability to house ice hockey, basketball and a multitude of third-party events. On days with no official activities, it remains a place full of life. Beyond serving as training facilities for the professional players, the arena’s three additional ice rinks are built from the vision of improving the local sports infrastructure. All year round the rinks are open for schools, clubs and the public to use, becoming a place that gathers and strengthens local grassroots sports.
Above ground, sports fans can browse the merchandise shops while the e-sport community gains a home with the ambitious Gaming Garden – the new gaming hotspot for southern Germany. A restaurant with both indoor and outdoor service lets life unfold between the internal and external spaces while the top of the arena is a new destination for Munich with a rooftop terrace that invites everyone to enjoy the views over the park and cityscape.
“We focused very much on what will happen on the ice or on the parquet floor. What happens here is the reason why you come to the building, and we wanted to create an atmosphere of intensity,” explains Ammundsen. ”Of course, it is also essential that the architecture is clear and intuitive enough that people are able to find their way quickly and move around without difficulty. But when you are sitting in your seat watching the game, the building should fade into the background. Then it is all about the atmosphere.”
A unique, full scope arena design
SAP Garden is at the forefront of arena designs, shaped to create an intense atmosphere and fan experience while being adaptive to its shifting purposes. Switching between an ice rink and a basketball court is a complicated matter as the two are different sizes. To accommodate this and ensure courtside seating for both sports, a unique stand-system has been developed. The existing stands can be shifted in height and slope while mobile stands are added for basketball games, placed on top of the covered rink, to create more seating.
3XN’s scope also includes the interior design where the use of digital media and light creates a flexible colour palette that can change the ambience of the arena in line with the branding or occasion. As such, the interior is centred around variety of atmospheres and identities. Areas and rooms are individual in their design which lets the users have unique experiences throughout the building. At the same time, all spaces have small design elements in common that tie the building together as a whole, creating an interior that is both cohesive and playful.
“There is a reason why we go to arenas, why it is so important to be able to go in person: we want to experience a feeling. I believe that this feeling only arises when we experience something together,” explains Ammundsen. ”As architects, we want to help make this feeling in the hall as intense and exciting as possible. There are good tools for doing that: sound technology, lighting technology. The main thing is that the experience is something that is special, something that you cannot have anywhere else.”
SAP Garden is 3XN’s third completed sports arena, following Royal Arena and Horsens Stadium in Denmark. The grand opening of the arena takes place on September 27 with an ice hockey game between the four-time German champions EHC Red Bull Munich and the Buffalo Sabres from the National Hockey League (NHL).
For more information, please contact:
Katherine Allen, Head of PR, 3XN
E-mail: kaa@3xn.dk Mobile: (+45) 5370 7082
A fact sheet for SAP Garden is available in a separate document, and can be found at this link.
Across diverse typologies and scales, 3XN’s work is driven by the conviction that architecture should give something back – to people, to communities, and to our planet. Since its founding in Aarhus, Denmark in 1986, the architecture firm has specialised in transformational projects: projects that give obsolete structures new form and character, that transform dormant neighbourhoods into thriving cultural hubs, or that unite disparate organizations into collaborative communities. A commitment to the highest standards of sustainability and design excellence unites the studio’s portfolio. Form and performance are not at odds, but rather continuously enhance and shape one another.
Among 3XN’s most high-profile projects are Olympic House – the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne (Switzerland); the new Fish Market and Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney (Australia); and Royal Arena and The Blue Planet National Aquarium in Copenhagen (Denmark).
With offices in Copenhagen (HQ), Stockholm, Sydney, New York, London, and Amsterdam, the diverse perspective of 3XN’s global practice gives greater depth to its holistic methodology which prioritizes behaviour, curiosity, and circularity.
Dimensionering iht Eurocode 1 og 3: EN 1991 Part 1-2 Actions on structures exposed to fire EN 1993 Part 1-2 Structural fire design
Kurset udbydes i samarbejde med Norsk Stålforbund og SBI.
Holdes online på engelsk
Foreleser er professor Paulo Vila Real, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Han har sammen med Jean-Marc Franssen forfattet læreboken «Fire design of Steel Structures» som er komplett lærebok for brannteknisk dimensjonering av stålkonstruksjoner.
Fire Design of Steel Structures, gratis lærebok Kurskompendium er basert på ECCS´ lærebok Fire Design of Steel Structures, inkludert medfølgende programvare Elefir-EN.
Elefir-EN, gratis programvare Inkludert i kurset er opplæring i bruk av programmet Elefir-EN for enkel og nøyaktig branndimensjonering av stålkonstruksjoner.
Språk Kurset holdes på engelsk / The course is held in English language.
Omtale Dette 1-dags kurset vil presentere de grunnleggende aspekter for dimensjonering av stålkonstruksjoner mhp brann etterfulgt av en full gjennomgang av funksjonaliteten i programvaren Elefir-EN som er lisensiert til eiere av ECCS boken Fire Design of Steel Structures.
Programvaren Elefir-EN er et viktig verktøy for rådgivende ingeniørfirmaer og andre konstruktører, for å kunne utføre raske og nøyaktige beregninger, redusere prosjekteringstiden og sannsynligheten for feil i utregninger av formler / likninger. Programmet kan også brukes av akademikere og studenter.
I Elefir-EN kan man beregne brannmotstanden til stålkonstruksjoner som er belastet både om sterk akse og svak akse. Beregninger kan utføres mhp tid, motstand og temperatur. Eksempler fra boken, og andre eksempler som ikke er inkludert i boken, vil bli løst ved hjelp av programmet Elefir-EN, og kurset avsluttes ved å løse en «case studie».
Indhold Program
08.45 : Login
09.00 : THERMAL AND MECHANICAL ACTIONS – Nominal temperature-time curves – Parametric temperature-time curves – Localized fires – Combinations of actions for accidental fire design situation
10.30 : THERMAL ANALYSIS
– Temperature of unprotected steelwork exposed to fire – Temperature of protected steelwork exposed to fire
11.30 : MECHANICAL ANALYSIS Fire resistance of structural members. Design in the resistance domain – Tension members – Compression members with Class 1, 2 or 3 cross-sections – Shear resistance
12.30 : Lunsj
13.30 : MECHANICAL ANALYSIS (continues) – Laterally restrained beams with Class 1, 2 or 3 cross-sections – Uniform temperature distribution – Non-uniform temperature distribution – Bending and shear – Laterally unrestrained beams with Class 1, 2 or 3 cross-sections – The elastic critical moment for lateral-torsional buckling – Resistance to lateral-torsional buckling – Members with Class 1, 2 or 3 cross-sections, subjected to combined bending and axial compression – Members with Class 4 cross-sections – Cross-section verification of a member subjected to combined bending and axial force (compression or tension) – Design in the temperature and in the time domain. Critical temperature – Design of continuous beams
15.00 : CASE STUDY – Description of the case study – Fire resistance under standard fire – Fire resistance under natural fire
16.00 : End
UNDERVISERE Professor Paulo Vila Real, Director of the Fire Resistance Laboratory, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
SPROG: Engelsk
TILMELDING Send tilmelding til dsi@steelinfo.dk med oplysning om fakturaadresse og evt. EAN nr.
PRIS 3.450- ekskl. moms for DSI medlemmer 4.950,- ekskl. moms for ikke medlemmer
Praktiske oplysninger Sted: Digtalt kurs via Teams (Deltakerne vil få tilsendt en lenke til innlogging til Teams-kurset en dag før kursstart)
Dokumenter: Kurskompendium: Kurset inkluderer e-kurskompendium basert på boka Fire Design of Steel Structures Boka med programvare er inkludert i kursavgiften!
We cordially invite scientists, researchers, structural designers and architects, engineers, and industry professionals, manufacturers and contractors, as well as students, to participate inthe 11th European Scientific Conference – EUROSTEEL 2026.
The conference is dedicated to the latest developments in metal and composite (steel–concrete or steel-timber) and glass structures.
A particular focus of EUROSTEEL 2026 will be placed on the modernization, evaluation, and reuse of existing steel structures and components—topics of growing importance in sustainable construction and structural engineering.
The proceedings of Eurosteel 2026 are planned to be published as a separate issue of the online journal ce/papers – Proceedings in Civil Engineering. See example:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25097075
KEY DATES:
Opening of the registration and abstract submission: Deadline for abstract submission: Deadline for full paper submission:
June 15, 2025 September 15, 2025 January 15, 2026
Join us to exchange knowledge, present research, and shape the future of steel construction in Europe and beyond –send your abstract!
For more information, including detailed key topics, please visit the conference website: https://eurosteel2026.org/
Prof. Mariusz Maślak and prof. Aleksander Kozłowski
