Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes

Save
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes

Information

  • Project Name: Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities
  • Practice: RCR Arquitectes
  • Completion year: 2011
  • Gross Built up Area: Track: Area 67.693 m² / Athletics Field 14.900 m² Facilities: 865,95 m²
  • Project Location: Olot
  • Country: Spain
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, Ramon Vilalta
  • Design Team: Track: MariaTàpies, Antonio Sáez. M. Bordas, Facilities: MariaTàpies, Andrea Schmid
  • Clients: Ajuntament d'Olot (Pere Macias), Consell Català de l'Esport. Generalitat de Catalunya
  • Engineering: Facilities: Plana-Hurtós Engineers
  • Structural Consultants: Track: Brufau, Obiol, Moya, Facilities: Blázquez-Guanter, arquitectes
  • Contractors: Track: Coempco, Facilities: UTE Estudis i Projectes La Vall, SL i Grup Mas Edificació, SL
  • Project Manager: Track: Pere Rifà, Facilities: Gemma Puigvert
  • Photo Credits: Hisao Suzuki
  • Others: Models: G. Rodríguez
More Info Less Info

Excerpt: Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities by RCR Arquitectes is an architecture project emphasizing the merits of the existing landscape. The track is implanted in two clearings in the white oak wood. Contiguous woodland at a distance and far-off woodland are the relations established between the track and the wood, the seating being developed as small terraces or as barriers between the clearings.

Project Description

Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Hisao Suzuki
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
Site Plan © RCR Arquitectes
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Hisao Suzuki

[Text as submitted by architect] Track: Set in natural surroundings, this athletics track enables the merits of the existing landscape to be emphasised and the track events to be brought closer to nature.

Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© R. Prat
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
Elevation © RCR Arquitectes
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
Section © RCR Arquitectes
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Pep Sau

The track is implanted in two clearings in the white oak wood. Contiguous woodland at a distance and far-off woodland are the relations established between the track and the wood, the seating being developed as small terraces or as barriers between the clearings.

Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Pep Sau
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
Plan © RCR Arquitectes
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
Section © RCR Arquitectes
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Pep Sau

Facilities: As well as containing the functional facilities, the equipment of the athletics track is interrelated with the walls, embankments and ramps that formalise the change in height from entrance to track; it is the great gateway directed towards the races, a filter between nature and the urban.

Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Pep Sau
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
Elevation © RCR Arquitectes
Tossols Basil Athletics Track and Facilities | RCR Arquitectes
© Pep Sau

A gateway is an extended roof held up by two volumes, one of which is like a great open window with a glass wall which doesn’t interrupt the visual continuity and picks up the reflection of the wood that has determined the entire intervention.

Leave a Reply