NGNP Arquitectos . photos: © Jesús Granada
The main condition of the project is to try to achieve a building with an iconic character that contributes representativeness and values to a currently peripheral urban environment, based on the resolution of an extremely simple program. The implantation is fundamental to understand the abstract, resounding and iconic character, since the boulevard where it is erected constitutes the link between the two urban centers that constitute the town, an area until now empty. It intends, therefore, to symbolize and physically consolidate the character of local uniqueness.
The program, which consists of stands (fixed and retractable), changing rooms, offices and attached premises, is distributed along the perimeter of the track, acquiring a central character. This basement, stereotomic in nature, is built in black concrete, evidencing the heaviness of being filled with a program and, therefore, its belonging to the earth; in contrast, the tectonic, that which detaches itself from the earth, the light backlit polycarbonate box that levitates above the track. Between them, the void, a space that mediates between both concepts, halfway between the public and the private, the exterior and the interior. A flexible perimeter ambulatory that can be used to expand the capacity of the stands, to host events complementary to the track or as a balcony to the landscape that hosts it.
This arrangement allows us to understand the building as a simple, compact and fragmented volume at the same time, a closed box, surgically torn, which allows it to illuminate, look and connect; finally, breathe. This dissociation between the heavy and the light from prefabricated pieces forms a building that, assuming its status as a public building, does so from the search for an austere monumentality based on a relationship between the object, the user and the environment.
The main merits of the project reside, on the one hand, in its representative condition, as a reference object in the urban environment, from its changing material condition and, mainly, from its flexible condition, which through the arrangement of the pieces of the program and the structure provides an intermediate space that substantially complements the required functionality, expanding the possibilities of its use.
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