Lasesarre Stadium
Bilbao ES
No.mad Arquitectos
2003
Type
Sports
Tags
spaces for the masses, Spain ccc
Visitability
Allowed
Description
We try to answer the question of what is the space to return soccer to its original character of sport-in-nature and blur its growing religious condition of skilful officiants and obedient acolytes. This occurs on an almost rectangular-shaped site planned by an autistic planning without any urban illusion, necessary in a deindustrialized city and in hours of low self-esteem.The answer is a system of visual-emotional behaviors reflected in the shape of the building that houses them. On the one hand, the recovery of a continuous green space where you can play and sit surrounded by grass that blurs the disciplined boundaries between the player and the spectator. On the other hand, the multiplicity of ways to look at height and distance, as well as the distribution of groups of spectators and their control, configure different stands with different folds, more inclined, narrow or with particular insertions of the playing field for each one.Thus, a series of mini-autonomous buildings without circulation between them that house their own services and accesses appear, which makes them capable of being used independently. Its compact grouping within the plot forms a complex that can stop working for only an hour and a half a week as a male catharsis and enables partial rentals for weekly meetings of any population group that so desires. The four corners complete the distribution and according to their different programs, changing rooms, social club and facilities become new autonomous buildings and particularized in their geometry. Without forgetting that the players have to work hard to keep the show going, a chromatic mirage resulting from the algorithmic combination of seven colors fills the stands with silent spectators.The apparent unity of all this battery of programs is provided by the roof, a direct reflection of the internal organization, permeable to the soft light of the place and cut out in the areas where the rain penetrates the gardens of the stands. The coverage continues to the outside, protecting the stadium exits at the level of the stands at the entrances and closer to the ground in the street walk areas, generating an arrhythmia that translates the general operation into the exterior image of the building.In this search for the transmission of an emotional message warning that we are entering another nature, we introduce a sensitive camouflage in the closed perimeter of the building, transferring the light variations of the forests through a system of vibrant steel pieces, permeable to vision and anti-vandalism under the cover folds. The accesses through this fictitious plant wall transport us to the alternative geography that controls the flows and stays of the spectators. Thus, a volume with different lighting conditions is configured that acts as a soft beacon at night, in the manner of wrinkled Japanese lamps, capable of depicting the skeleton of the building in the dark as a new exciting emblem.(Description provided by the architects)