3D Athletics Track
3D ATHLETICS TRACK
Subarquitectura (Andrés Silanes, Fernando Valderrama & Carlos Bañón)
ARCHITECTS
Subarquitectura (Andrés Silanes, Fernando Valderrama & Carlos Bañón)
LOCATION
Alicante, Spain
CATEGORY
Racetrack
YEAR
2010
PHOTOGRAPHS
Subarquitectura
Text description provided by architect.
Designing an athletic track could get you as bored as when you are running on it: curve, straight, curve, straight, again and again…
Perfectly standardized, sport architecture has become more universal than international style.
Track length of 400 m, 36.5 m radius. 1.22 m each lane….
just data, without any fissure to let your imagination soar.
We have added to the conventional track an alternative one, amateur and funny, raised and tree-dimensional. It goes off on a tangent, covers the changing rooms and returns to the conventional track.
As new ways are available for athletes, spectators get involved in the sport activity, seated in-between this two tracks.
This is our tribute to all the sport pioneers that created new ways of performing that later others followed. Tom Burke, Dick Fosbury, Graeme Obree….
