Architects:José María Sánchez García

Area :5300 m²

Year :2009

Photographs :Roland Halbe / Hisao Suzuki

Lead Architect :José María Sánchez García

Collaborator : Mariló Sánchez, Marta Cabezón, Laura Rojo, Mafalda Ambrosio, Maribel Torres, Rafael Fernández, Enrique García-Margallo, Francisco Sánchez

Country : Spain

This project articulates a brief for an R&D sports technology centre focused on nature-related activities. The site is located on a peninsula in the Gabriel y Galán Reservoir in Cáceres Province, with seasonal changes in the water level.

The building's location is therefore set on a safe level. The roughly 6,000 m2 programme is stretched to produce a 630 m circular structure, ensuring that the building is always only partly visible. In other words, a fragment insinuates the entire building, although the only way to really appreciate the whole structure is from the air. This big-scale dilutes the project into its surroundings. The building also becomes an artifact that seems alien to its location, materialized by means of a dry construction system with assembled components, integrated with the landscape by contrast.

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