GYMNASTIC STADIUM
FONTIBÓN, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Year: 2009 Program: Sports equipment Status: Academic Size: 50000 m2
Gymnastic Stadium Location Model
Facing the possibility that Bogotá could host the VII Pan-American Games, it was proposed the constitution of seven sport nucleuses that house the sports facilities needed by an event with such big scale. These nucleuses were located at Bogota’s south- west zone with the objective to transform a zone of the city which is neglected and damaged. The GYMNASTIC STADIUM is placed at the “Fontibon’s nucleus”, in a zone that actually has industrial, commercial and residential uses.
Gymnastic Stadium model top photo
Gymnastic Stadium model photo
The use of elements like light, water and vegetation allows that the project offers a different perspective from each view where it is observed. Taking into account that this sport is a contemplation act in which the assistants are “inactive” but more sensitive, the transformation will be done by textures and sounds. The light will be user of the space, who establishes the limits and companion of the assistant contemplation.
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In order to integrate the project with the community it was projected a big park that not only houses the Gymnastic Stadium and the Skating rink but rink allows the use of the space in activities different from the sports. With this strategy the community would be more interested and feel it as part of the collective memory. However the project must not break the place dynamic and for this reason it respects the near housing with the privacy and tranquility that it implies. For this, the private sport tasks are separated from the stage and are posed like a transition between the private housing and the main sport scene. The main intent is creating an allusion to the movement and surprise that recalls the gymnastics and being itself a calling to dynamism.