Training Complex of the Municipal Stadium in Aveiro
The building plot is located in the immediate surroundings of Aveiro Municipal Stadium as a support structure for football practice and official games for the younger teams. The project is comprised of four football pitches, a supporting facility with locker rooms, public stands, parking facilities and complementary amenities. The functional solution is based on the clarification of the user’s paths: the unequivocal separation between the public areas and the reserved access areas.
All functions were condensed into a single building, with the public stands facing the playing pitches to each side and the remaining programmatic functions housed underneath. The option of joining all functions and the two public grandstands in a single unit optimizes public circulation and reduces building material, building costs, and construction time. The building is based on a modular, prefabricated, and demountable structure.
This “grandstand-building” is entirely based on modular reinforced concrete structures. This construction concept is therefore based on a highly efficient assembly process in which the modules previously produced off-site are quickly and accurately placed on site. The general image of the building and its constructive system are strongly intertwined. The materiality of the building, specifically the use of concrete in its natural colour, is simultaneously an aesthetic choice as well as a cost-effective one, avoiding the need for additional finishings. The simplicity of the design and the sobriety of its apparent materials aim for a reduced presence of the building in the surroundings, offering a certain neutrality to the general intervention and not competing with the stronger presence of the stadium nearby.
Photography ©Fernando Guerra FG+SG
