"Röda Rummet"

"We have to keep the sound trapped", my 14 year old son said during breakfast as we were discussing a new arena for our soccer team Kalmar FF.

So we had a couple of weeks of father/son joy while trying to figure out how to design an arena that would support the excitement of the game for the players as well for the audience.
A small town with a fantastic team winning the Swedish premier league.
80 by 120 meters, 7000 spectators, you need a trick!

My son took me on a trip to the new arenas all over the world, a voyage online.
And we looked for ideas in the Roman arenas as well as the Elisabetharian theatres.

“The Arena coup” was the headline, in the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, when our ideas started leaking thru the team's dressing room.

Client: None
2005