© Petersen Architekten . Pubblicata il 01 Giugno 2011.

Beside its remarkle silouhette the football museum should be a building for visitors of all social classes inviting and waking people´s interest. Thus there is no intention of designing a monument but a space for the enthusiastic population, a building they will be proud of.

© Petersen Architekten . Pubblicata il 01 Giugno 2011.

Despite its complex spatial effect the building has a simple structure: It essentially consists of two components: a significant carrying structure and its in-between „hung up“ terrace platforms.

© Petersen Architekten . Pubblicata il 01 Giugno 2011.

The roof of the museum will be built also as an accessible terrace landscape – an urban space for soccer games, spectators, city walkers, cafe terraces, lying areas, etc. forming an arena on the museum in the city.

© Petersen Architekten . Pubblicata il 01 Giugno 2011.

The building combines 2 urbanistic potentials:
- symbolic value: a concise emblem both for the DFB and for the city Dortmund
- Functional value: the roof surface activates the building – in addition to the museum use – as a singular, lively space within the Urban space: the museum plays an active role in the city life.

© Petersen Architekten . Pubblicata il 01 Giugno 2011.

The museum is altogether relatively low, reaches with his highest terrace field a height of approximately 15,5 m and is thus clearly lower than the buildings around, the city skyline remains perceptible.