National Handball Academy, Hungary

State-of-the-art training complex offers modern facilities for competition, training, and education
Hungary has a respected position among the top ranking nations of handball sport. The golden years of Hungarian handball include the Olympic gold medals in 1949 and 1965 and the European championship gold medal in 2000. The continued success of the sport looks promising with the ongoing popularity of the handball game in Hungary, which has more than 28,000 active players across 578 teams, 54% of active players are under 18 years.
Recognizing the popularity of handball sport as a free-time activity, The Hungarian Handball Federation has elaborated a long term strategy to develop the sport as a Preferred National Sport in Hungary. Together with its development partners it founded a modern training complex, the National Handball Academy, in order to provide up-to-date competition, training and educational facility for the different types of handball sports.
The planned multifunctional complex would serve as a base for other court games like basketball, volleyball, wrestling, and fencing, and the design of the facility reflects both the functional specification of the Hungarian Handball Federation and the requirements of other court games, on both professional and amateur level. In addition to the core sports functions, the facility has been designed to integrate educational, conference and touristic features in order to increase the viability of the project. The positioning of the different buildings has been designed to create all access areas on the front entrance of the site while offering quiet zones for the sportsmen at the back.
