Wood is gathered from all corners of Denmark and given new life as part of a visionary project: sporting facilities for the national football team. The wood is recycled — often consisting of small offcuts of varying sizes and dimensions, typically considered too irregular or undersized for large-scale construction.

Building with this kind of material calls for a creative rethinking of conventional methods. Inspired by the interlocking geometry of the football itself, a repetitive rhomboidal structural system is developed. This system not only enables the use of short-span elements but also generates a poetic and expressive architectural language — while achieving the structural strength required to span the full width of a training pitch.

Biomaterials further support the project’s sustainability goals, helping to keep the carbon footprint remarkably low — just 0.38 kg CO₂e/m²/year, placing the building well within the planet’s safe operating space. And when the building’s function eventually comes to an end, a design for disassembly ensures it can be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere — ready for a new context and a new purpose.