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Arquitectura y PUNTO. Year 1. Issue 14. Mexico. October 2012. fugarquitectura.com Editor in Chief
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Editorial
Aren´t only balls. Gonzalo Mendoza
We cannot deny the symbolism and iconism which a Sports Building has today, perhaps is this type of architecture in where both features are stronger than in any other genre. “To be remembered”, is another aim that maybe was present since Colosseum in Rome and to nowadays in the work of many studios like Herzog & de Meuron at the Beijing Olympic Stadium; Zaha Hadid at the Aquatic Complex in London; Eduardo Soto de Moura with the Braga Stadium or in the sport projects for the next 6 years in Brazil; but also in Mexico you cand find buildings as: Omnilife Stadium by Jean-Marie Massaud in Guadalajara, the historic Azteca Stadium by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Palacio de los Deportes by Felix Candela in Mexico City or the Magic Olympic Stadium which today is proudly in our cover. But at the same time exist those that more than design have History, as the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, Old Trafford in Manchester, Maracaná in Rio de Janeiro or Wembley in London. The design of massive sports buildings, is for me, an independent side in architectural development, in where you can do everything, and in where the user experience begins many steps before to arrive to the place. In this PUNTO 14 we are going to know that we can also made little projects with the same challenge that the giant architects have made it; and so, we will be taking the opportunity to get in that other side.
BERLIN OLYMPIC STADIUM, DE. © Pablo Goldin
PROJECT BY STUDY
MĂ“DULO DE CORREDORES DIEGO ESCAMILLA 2010 ARCH. UNAM MX - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa PT.
The aim of this module is to give regular runners on the track "El Sope" in Chapultepec, a worthy area that complies with multifunction. The whole program is housed in the same space, divided by the same "blocks" that make the role of health, shop, bar, etc.. The facade and the roof respond to what happens on the inside, so that, depending on the use of space these are separated more or less depending on the privacy you need the space. Architectural Plan
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SPORT PARK CASERME SAMUELE FUDA, LUCA GALZIGNATO & ALBERTO GEUNA 2009 POLITECNICO DI TORINO, IT
This plan for a new sports-and-leisure compound near the Italian city of Turin attempts to turn dismissed army barracks into a new pole for the disoriented suburbian towns that surround the area. The rigid distribution of the military base has been maintained and integrated in order to form a net of walking and bike paths that stretch around sports fields, shops, restaurants, a swimming pool and a multi-purpose gymnasium, which is located in the south east. Main Facade - GYM
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This last building is doubtless the most relevant one. Designed to be a visual gate for the park, this apparently simple shoe-box shaped structure holds a 20 meters wide, 7 meters tall gym hall, illuminated by a massive glass wall. The reticular beams, visible from inside the building and through the two main facades, sustain the roof and a suspended bridge that connects the two side wings.
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DIVING PLATFORM REGINA KURI 2012 ARCH. UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, MX.
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PAOLA PÉREZ 2012 ARCH. UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, MX.
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COLOR FLOW - SPORTS PARK ELSI LEHTO; TUOMO NÄRÄNEN; HERTTA AHVENAINEN & RIIKKA LEINONEN SCHOOL OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, AALTO UNIVERSITY. FI.
Idea of the design was to create a multi-functional sport and activity park for every age group. The park lies in the heart of Tampere. The area already had good existing professional sport facilities s such as football and track fields so the idea was to create a place were doing sports in a daily life would become more accessible and easier for people that don't necessary do sports in a professional level. Another main goal was to create a park for just the use of hanging out!
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The heart of the design is the three main tracks that go around the park. The tracks are color coded and the colors represent different lengths. In winter part of these tracks can be iced and used for skating. Around the tracks are the different activity areas and in the middle is a center building for a café, dressing rooms and maintenance facilities. The activity areas are skate park, Parkour Park, volleyball fields, Senior Park, Basketball courts and a football field (in winter two hockey fields). End of the football field is a small arena and “auditorium” on a grassy slope where you can observe the activities in the park. Across the park and on the west side are grass fields for picnic and for example “Park Yoga”. In the design the existing trees were saved and supplemented to create buffer zone to the surrounding streets.
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NON-Sporting Architecture: TECHNOLOGY VS SPORTS BY. Athenea Papacostas Study Arch. UNAM MX
Comfort is today one of the main objectives of architecture. In first instance is livability, comfort second and third the luxury ... but this tends to overdo and becomes extremism which, along with technology, man is able to do everything from a fixed location and mobile human nature fades into a comfortable routine itself, but unhealthy. The man of nomadic origin, has undermined their physical ability to remote control and feet have become wheels. The common denominator moves , if posibly, standing or sitted, it barely moves the feet. All this to go to an institutionalized sport and pay for it. Gets in elevators and some even walking the dog with thir car. Exercise not only solidifies the bodies, it has predominantly positive effects in psychological, social and cultural matter. Sport should not be only of professional athletes but we should all practice it in our daily lives. Exercise is essential in the development of man and our architecture is that the user must route to a balanced experience. The criticism goes to the extreme comfort and privatization of sports. In malls, esclators and elevators are more accesible than conventional stairs. If you want to walk, you have to look for stairs, because at first glance there are pure mechanical
vertical connections. Once again, effort is reduced to pushing a button. And we wonder why do we suffer from obesity? True, there are many other factors but what concerns to us is it correct to build to the law of least effort? Ask yourself do you really think a escalator benefit us or hurt us? And rethink our spaces from the physical and psychological wellbeing of man. It sounds radical, it is true that the elevators are needed to facilitate mobility wheelchairs, strollers, carrying heavy objects, etc.. but it is important to consider the body in our activity. How do we promote sport? It makes sense to merge our transport times with times of personal active movement (exercise). And include in the interstices the public space, with the playful and cultural sports. Not only as an expression of mobility, as well as specific objective. Develop mobility routes and distances that do not require other type of transportation. In the megametropolis sounds utopian, but can strengthen neighborhood centers and strong colonies tending towards human sustainability. And inviting people to take over their space and body, creating passionate social spaces and worship for sport.
BERLIN OLYMPIC STADIUM, DE. © Pablo Goldin
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MEXICAN HOTELS By. Julieta García González, Juan José Kochen y Oscar Ramírez Arquine. 2012
Mexican design hotel development is bounded to a history of recent manufacture. Of the 21 hotels included in this edition, there are nine of them as intervention in existing historic buildings. The value lies in its preservation site which houses ranging from historic to a farm in an agricultural area. The property also necessary to keep the outpost for its users are also semipublic sites and recovery urban detonators in their respective environments, primarily in the historic centers.
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Architecture for Sport
ARCHIGRAM: EXPERIMENTAL
By. Peter Stürzebecher // ACADEMY PRESS
Until December 09, 2012.
Palácio Vila Flor, GUIMARAES, PT.
Exhibition
L´Italia de Le Corbusier. MAXXI ROME, IT. Until February 17, 2013.
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Thomas Heatherwick MAKING IDEAS By. T. Heatherwick // THE MONACELLI PRESS
Exhibition
Visions of Modernity Guggenheim Museum BILBAO, MX. Until February 17, 2013.
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