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Description

The construction of the new facility represents a great opportunity to reorganise and revitalise this peripheral area of the city, creating a major sports and cultural hub that integrates the existing facilities and reconnects the whole area with the neighbouring districts. The town planning scheme provides for the creation of a footpath to the south of the existing cultural centre, linking it with a nearby housing development. The project's proposal is to move the alignment of this path to make it a structuring axis for organising both current and future facilities. This new axis will pass through the new sports hall, dividing the building into two distinct volumes: the multi-sports hall to the north and the squash and dance hall to the south. The response to an extended programme, with different requirements in terms of time use and climate, involves the use of two different construction logics: on the one hand, a compact volume, incorporating two entrances at different levels and the heated squash and dance hall, and on the other, a second, unheated volume for the multipurpose hall, covered by a textile membrane whose geometry cools the pavilion during the summer months. The backlit lantern created by its white fabric envelope at night represents the renewal of the sports and cultural centre and its public-amenity character.