Ripoll
Winning proposal in collaboration with Sergi Serrat for the construction of a sports centre promoted by the Ripoll town council.
To house the changing rooms and trainers’ rooms, we designed a long, narrow volume with a gable roof. This roof then grows in height, transitioning to a single slope to achieve a larger space containing the multi-purpose room. The double exterior corridors allow perimeter circulation under an eave, while the semi-covered area between the changing rooms and the multi-purpose hall serves as an access point from the city to the football field.
The roof of the changing rooms is supported by a modular system of timber trusses supported by brick walls. In the multipurpose hall we mitigated the wind loads by incorporating a system of steel tensor portal frames, reducing the sections of the columns to reduce construction costs.
