Zatec
Architects: MACH + IDEA
Location: Žatec, Czech Republic
Year: 2022
Status: 1st Prize International Competition
Program: Sports Hall
Client: Public
Exposicions:
Biennal Ajal COAC – Casa de la Arquitectura Nameless Models
Publicacions:
Arquitectura Viva - ArchDaily - Metalocus - Beta architecture
We imagine the new Sports Hall of Žatec as a sustainable landmark settled inside a green park. The project is informed by old rural architecture by wrapping a complex sport program under one single pitched roof at this point of the city of Žatec. The building tries to bring domestic atmospheres in architecture to a large scale project by defining small and medium interstitial spaces between the outdoor park and the main training indoor area. By this means a unique and sensitive wooden roof underlines and confidently organizes the indoor spaces and programme.
In order to reduce the section of the wooden beams, the main structure is divided into different two section beams which are assembled with its own pilars. Following the interior main structure perimetre a secunday structural system, totally in precast wood, configures the hipped roof around the building. The understanding of this theoretical structural division is key to maximizing the structural efforts in the central part of the building and providing a light, smooth and simple structure to the entire perimeter capable of resolving the different encounters for the hipped roof.