Joynext Arena, Dresden, Germany

Object Type
Stadiums
Sport Halls

Client
Landeshauptstadt Dresden Sportstätten und Bäderbetrieb, Dresden

Architects
Schmidt-Schicketanz und Partner GmbH, München

Completion
2008

Expertises
Building Acoustics
Sound Isolation
Room Acoustics

Originally built in 1969, the ice rink on Pieschener Allee was severely damaged during the Elbe floods in 2002. The city of Dresden decided to build a new sports centre with an ice arena, an additional training ice rink, a 333-metre-long speed skating rink and a 3,000-square-metre three-court ball rink. The ice arena can accommodate around 4,200 spectators during events. The arena is equipped with two scoreboards and the possibility of television broadcasts. In addition to ice skating events, ice hockey matches and short track races, concerts are also held in the ice arena.

For the ice sports arena with a room acoustically effective volume of just under 100,000 m³, the primary focus was on room attenuation for ice hockey events with over 4,000 visitors. Thanks to a lightweight roof construction specially developed for the ice rink, it was possible to fulfil both the necessary sound insulation to the outside and the thermal and diffusion requirements for the roof construction. In Müller-BBM Building Solutions acoustic test rigs, the roof structure was optimised in terms of sound absorption so that an additional suspended ceiling for acoustic damping of the ice rink could be dispensed with. The structural-acoustic and structural-physical separation of the ball sports hall, which is located above the training ice rink, was another focus of the integral structural-physical planning.

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1 Hans-Jochen Krumnow
2 Hans-Joachim Krumnow
3 Hans-Joachim Krumnow
4 Hans-Joachim Krumnow
5 Hans-Joachim Krumnow