Sep 8, 2011

3D Athletics Track / Subarquitectura

Architects: Subarquitectura (Andrés Silanes, Fernando Valderrama & Carlos Bañón)
Location: Alicante, Spain
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Subarquitectura

Designing an athletic track could get you as bored as when you are running on it: curve, straight, curve, straight, again and again…

Perfectly standardized, sport architecture has become more universal than international style. Track length of 400 m, 36.5 m radius. 1.22 m each lane….just data, without any fissure to let your imagination soar.

We have added to the conventional track an alternative one, amateur and funny, raised and tree-dimensional. It goes off on a tangent, covers the changing rooms and returns to the conventional track.

side elevations

As new ways are available for athletes, spectators get involved in the sport activity, seated in-between this two tracks.
This is our tribute to all the sport pioneers that created new ways of performing that later others followed. Tom Burke, Dick Fosbury, Graeme Obree….

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