GANA Arquitectura

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility 

GANA Arquitectura

PHOTOGRAPHS
Blanca Green

AREA
655 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Vélez-málaga, Spain

CATEGORY
Sports Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

An athletics stadium. A municipal sports center. A plot. Two levels. A problem. An opportunity.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green
Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

As part of the remodeling and enlarging works on Fernando Hierro municipal sports facilities, the Town Hall commissioned us to design a storage building in a residual plot located inside the premises.

It consists on working on an island, a place forgotten for more than the fifteen years of existence of the sports center, a plot on hillside, adjacent to the track on the top level and to the tennis courts at the lower level.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green
Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

From the outset, a need arose to generate a performance that could suture and connect two levels, two leading sports areas which had been coexisting but that have not understood each other for many years.

We proposed a two-storey building, thus ignoring the developer’s initial guidelines, obtaining a locker room for athletes on the ground floor, while leaving the entire upper floor for storage use.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green
Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

Therefore, we aimed to double the requested area with the same budget, turning a simple and reviled storage area into a store and a new locker room. A complex and difficult but at the same time exciting challenge.

This was achieved through a performance based on the economy of means, on a particular and specific design, and on the confidence in the type and characteristics of a store.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green
Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

Therefore, we aimed to double the requested area with the same budget, turning a simple and reviled storage area into a store and a new locker room. A complex and difficult but at the same time exciting challenge.

This was achieved through a performance based on the economy of means, on a particular and specific design, and on the confidence in the type and characteristics of a store.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green
Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

Because performance itself is conceived as an opaque volume that is embedded in the ground, a metal crate piercing the topography; basically a store where a colorful changing room has been gestated. Happy together.

Similarly, the inner courtyards generated on the lower floor are not visible from this level, where they can only be felt and intuited, thus inviting to discovery.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green
Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green

Courtyards are only visible from the upper level, but they are not visited, thus completing the poetic ‘wanting but being unable’, ‘with or without you’, misunderstood desire… the store that wanted to be a locker room.

A storage building with a galvanized steel industrial aesthetic, only tinged by a polycarbonate translucent skin in the facade that overlooks the track. A glaze ultimately intended to delve the user into the land of intuition, returning the light from inside out into the stadium at night.

This subtle hint is complemented by the use of color, hidden, but hinted at various points of the building. Finally, user’s exploring interest completes the operation.

Multifunctional Building and Sports Facility
© Blanca Green


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GANA Arquitectura
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