Built | 2006 | Bilbao | The lot is a reduced and irregular piece of terrain, almost residual, that opens a way between the rear and unaligned façades heights of a group of housings and the almost vertical wall of a natural hillside, in which there are many train tracks and hightways. A new conmutertrain station and the metallic structure of the existent pediment determine the extremes of the lot and generate different slopes.
The sports complex is a uneven volume that complies with multiples conditions that coexist in the lot .A semi transparente fencing of black concrete and glass tries to respond to the different situations generated between the transforming residential city and natural hillside profoundly affected by industrialization.
The building generates small exterior spaces and empty interior ones to adapt itself to the complexity of the enviroment, to organize the accesses, to capture the natural light and to express to the users the vertical functioning of the proyect.
The implicit option of the proyect is a bare, unitary sports complex to host physical activities, which is open to the transformed nature and to the changing city.