INTERIOR EQUALITIES | interior architecture | HEAD – Genève & UEFA | 2025
INTERIOR EQUALITIES | interior architecture | HEAD – Genève & UEFA | 2025
The project ‘Interior Equalities – Redesigning the Locker Room Experience’ aims to improve existing changing room facilities for young football players. They often lack atmospheric qualities and sufficient capacities, compromising the privacy and comfort of young athletes. The male-dominated culture prevalent in many sports clubs can create an unwelcoming environment for female and non-binary players.
Initiated by the UEFA Innovation Hub in collaboration with ThinkSport and the Swiss Football Association, this project started as a semester project in the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève. Thirteen students designed individual spatial interventions aimed at making football facilities more inclusive and user-friendly. The basis was extensive research, including an analysis of various locker room designs, examination of user questionnaires, and engagement with contemporary discourse on equality in interior architecture. Advanced technologies such as 3D scanning were employed to analyse existing spaces, while mixed reality headsets enabled students to create their design concepts at a 1:1 scale.
The individual proposals formed the foundation for developing a functional prototype. Partnering with OSZ Worbboden, two existing locker rooms underwent comprehensive renovations and replacement of furniture elements.
Presented at Unstoppable: Women’s EURO Final Forum, Basel.
Initiated by the UEFA Innovation Hub in collaboration with ThinkSport and the Swiss Football Association, this project started as a semester project in the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève. Thirteen students designed individual spatial interventions aimed at making football facilities more inclusive and user-friendly. The basis was extensive research, including an analysis of various locker room designs, examination of user questionnaires, and engagement with contemporary discourse on equality in interior architecture. Advanced technologies such as 3D scanning were employed to analyse existing spaces, while mixed reality headsets enabled students to create their design concepts at a 1:1 scale.
The individual proposals formed the foundation for developing a functional prototype. Partnering with OSZ Worbboden, two existing locker rooms underwent comprehensive renovations and replacement of furniture elements.
Presented at Unstoppable: Women’s EURO Final Forum, Basel.
Under the direction of Simon Husslein, with the assistance of Chiara Kocis.
Head of Department: Dr. Javier Fernández Contreras
Scientific Deputy: Valentina De Luigi
Students taking part in the semester project: Martin Annen, Giona Leo Baumann, Carla Ferey, Alexis Lang, Marie Mamou Blanché, Elise Mathis, Missilia Mendy, Zoé Mettraux, Yan Vasquez, Nina Wallimann, Emilie Liechti, Carolina Rodrigues, Elodie Rochat.
Collaborators:
UEFA innovation hub
Swiss Football Association SFV / ASF
ThinkSport
OSZ Worbboden
Semester jury members: Gabrielle Schaad, Evelyn Steiner.
Images: HEAD – Genève, Valentine Blaimont
Film: HEAD – Genève, Lucie Goldring
Head of Department: Dr. Javier Fernández Contreras
Scientific Deputy: Valentina De Luigi
Students taking part in the semester project: Martin Annen, Giona Leo Baumann, Carla Ferey, Alexis Lang, Marie Mamou Blanché, Elise Mathis, Missilia Mendy, Zoé Mettraux, Yan Vasquez, Nina Wallimann, Emilie Liechti, Carolina Rodrigues, Elodie Rochat.
Collaborators:
UEFA innovation hub
Swiss Football Association SFV / ASF
ThinkSport
OSZ Worbboden
Semester jury members: Gabrielle Schaad, Evelyn Steiner.
Images: HEAD – Genève, Valentine Blaimont
Film: HEAD – Genève, Lucie Goldring
