Campomarzio + Michele Moresco Architetto
St. Martin Sport Centre
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Place
Sankt Martin, Italy
Photos
Davide Perbellini
Description
The project involves the construction of a new sport
centre for the municipality of St. Martin in Passeier. The sport area is located
close to the eastern part of town, squeezed between the main road and the
Passeier River, and offers an outdoor swimming pool complex built in the late
1960s and four tennis courts, of which the northernmost one is used in winter
as an ice rink. The municipality required a new main building located in the area
between swimming pools and tennis courts in order to form a central location
for all sport activities in the area. To improve functional communication and the
relationship between the various activities, the ground level of the new sport
centre was raised to the level of the promenade and the pedestrian bridge over
the Passeier, compensating for the difference in height between the swimming
pool area and the tennis courts. The design concept splits the programme into
two distinct rectangular volumes, which are offset to generate a new external
space and a new entrance. The newly generated space is a small square located
at the crossroads between the pedestrian path that leads from the village to
the pedestrian bridge over the Passeier and the new access to the outdoor
swimming pool complex. A large roof extending on all four sides characterises
the volumes above ground, generating a simple and clear horizontal element that
frames the landscape beyond the building, with the high mountains of the Passeier
Valley.