Sports Center And Indoor Pool
SPORTS CENTER AND INDOOR POOL
Alday Jover Arquitectura y Paisaje
ARCHITECTS
Alday Jover Arquitectura y Paisaje
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Fernando Benedicto
ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
Cristina Capell, Carmen Muñoz, Joan Arnau
COLLABORATORS
Aroa Álvarez, Rubén Páez, Joana M.Verd, Lorena Bello
MODEL
Shinji Miyazaki, architect
CLIENT
Suelo y Vivienda de Aragón S.L.
STRUCTURES
David García, BIS arquitectes
PROGRAM
Pool, sports center, and gyms
FACILITIES
JG asociados
MATERIAL BUDGET
4.313.736 €
CONTRACTOR BUDGET
6.340.000 €
AREA
7365.0 m²
YEAR
2008
LOCATION
Zaragoza, Spain
CATEGORY
Recreation & Training
A vertical overlap of pools, sports center and gym in a small urban lot for the size of the program required.
A dark concrete volume: compact and rugged on the outside, luminous and smooth inside, excavated and torn to allow light into the large spaces it houses.
The pools are located below ground, open to an empty courtyard on the south facade, and to the playground of the adjacent school.
The sports track is above them, with views to the outside through the same courtyard. The gyms are inserted, alternating, between the trusses of the roof of the track, forming a frieze of solid and void, with visual relationships between them and with the track.
The entrances and cafeteria or the bleachers and offices are located on the mezzanines that arise at the levels of swimming pools and tracks.
The vertical core and the entrances occupy the apex of the site, at the confluence of the streets. The locker rooms are located along the west facade.
A single material, black dyed concrete, makes up the exterior and interior walls, as well as the floor finish in the circulation areas.
The technical floors, bright green for the pools, orange for the track, and blue for the gyms, color the light of each space.
