Architecture | Interior Design | Furniture

The requirement was a public sports center for a socially difficult area. So it had to be cheap, it had to be integrative, and it had to be easy to use, with clear distribution.It was important for us that the building completed the urban block. Architecturally the project strategy starts from the existing conditions that makes it especially complex i.e. the integration of two buildings with strong identities, the sports pavilion (from the nineties) and the industrial building of the 19th century. The main effort of the architects was to arrive at a compact and coherent functional whole that volumetrically maintains the reading of the three bodies that form it: the two existing buildings and the new construction that contains the swimming pool, all formally autonomous.

The construction is very simple. Walls made of concrete, with a special texture. Covered inside with wood-concrete panels, painted white. Roof made of prefabricated concrete slabs, covered in the inside by Heraklith panels roof. In the wet areas the floor is a nonslip vinylic layer, and in the rest made of concrete paving stone. The hall: Situated in the confluence of the 3 constructions. The meeting of the 3 architectural languages and shapes creates a cenital natural illumination. It is a ver fluid space. There is a cafe-bar, a rest area, public toilets and the reception desk. Reception desk: It is a control of admittance. It divides the users of the pavilion and the rest of the center. They are driven to the changing rooms from this point. Changing rooms: They are in the ground floor of the factory building. It used to be a storage before. From the changing rooms you can exit in one side to the swimming pool area or go back to the entrance door, to the interior vestibule, to go to the sports areas.

Swimming pool. High space, illuminated in an appellative way. All white, calm. It has 2 swimming pools: one is the swimming one, 25 meters long. The other is the bath, jacuzi, to relax. It has a lower ceiling to comfort.Thermal area: next to the jacuzi, there is a thermal area with a sauna, special showers, massage room, etc…Fitness area: just above the changing rooms, in the main room of the old factory. Illuminated space, where one can observe and be observed. Aerobics rooms: Over the swimming pool, connected to the vestibule ant the Fitness through a large corridor opened over the Pavilion. The Aerobics room look over the swimming pool, through a glass wall.