Practice Facility

The design of this professional women’s soccer training facility is a compositional blend of opacities and slightly shifting building massing. It is an architectural duality that mirrors the nature of soccer – a sport that is complex in strategy and beautifully simple in execution. Rather than separating spaces for coaches and players, the two ‘wings’ merge together as a second story bridge that creates access through the building to the soccer pitch and a grade change at the lobby level. All masses are clad in a veil of impact resistance polycarbonate that is strategically peeled away from the structure’s envelope to express the program within and to create a light-filled environment that fosters the sense of inclusivity and unity at the core of the team’s ethos.