Located in the metropolitan area of Madrid and within the same campus of the Francisco de Vitoria University, the sports center, with a conference room, stands as a lightweight element in glass and fiber-reinforced concrete panels, respecting the architectural vision of the other university buildings by integrating into them as a unique whole.
University sports pavilion in Madrid: light and spaciousness
The sports pavilion of the Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) in Pozuelo, Madrid, is a large, bright, and spacious open space. It is a sober project, architecturally in harmony with the surrounding buildings, that is much more than just a space for sports activities; it is a place designed, developed, and built to be an additional complement to the university.
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The structure of the sports center is made of steel material and widely used in different architectural projects, with a grid of columns and beams on the facade, and trusses to support the large spans of the roof. The rest is in reinforced concrete, with the particularity of large angled beams over the pool area, from which the supports for the conference room extend. The layout is on two clean volumes, well defined and connected by a construction whose roof becomes an external connecting courtyard.
The building designed by Alberto Campo Baeza, volumetrically adapts to the maximum heights and alignments of the campus and clearly stands out from the space intended for teaching. The volumes and facade materials also allow a clear distinction between sports and educational use, with approximate dimensions of 50 x 60 meters, and a height of 12 meters, following the general lines of all the blocks that make up the campus.
The sports center, inside which there are sports fields, a gym, a swimming pool, a physiotherapy center, etc., also becomes a multifunctional versatile space: from meeting room to event space on university-related topics, offering itself as a complete place where university students can carry out recreational and sports activities without having to leave the campus.
In the project, the orientation of the sports center was also taken into account, choosing accordingly the different types of materials used in the structure, depending on their exposure to light. The south corner, more exposed to the sun, has finishes in fiberglass-reinforced lightweight concrete. The north corner, on the other hand, is made of translucent glass. In the segment of the southeast facade, there is a low band of transparent glass that promotes a connection with the central square of the campus, the same mechanism is also found on the northeast side, creating a more visual relationship between the square and the sports center.
The use of large ceramic formats, in particular the product Maxfine Titanium White by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, on the steps of the sports center and on part of the coverings, in the 300 x 100 cm format with only 6 mm thickness, gives strength and brightness to the sports space.
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