San Agustín Sport Center | Grupo Oi

2003 – 2004

Cliente:

* Colegio San Agustín

Location:

* El Paraíso, Caracas

Headpersons:

* Ignacio Cardona // Oberdan De Lucia

Team:

* Carlos Rengifo // Jimena Cruz // Francisco Paul // Esteban Tenreiro // José Rodríguez.

Construction Management:

* Ignacio Cardona // Oberdan De Lucia // Esteban Tenreiro

Consultants:

* Constructora Galven // Electricidad Salerno

 

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This project is a sports complex at Colegio San Agustín, a high school located in the west of Caracas. The site is a large, underutilized lot at a lower level than the existing buildings of the school.

The project created a connecting platform whose roof is a system of plazas and elevated walkways at the same level as the ground floor of the existing school. This platform distributes circulation to the different programs that are located on the lower level, on the same level as the site. On this lower level, the building is permeable to increase the visual relationship between a new soccer field to the north and a semi-Olympic pool to the south. The entire system ends with a vertical gym further east.

In the top view, the building adapts its geometry to the traces of geography. It consists of fan-shaped steps, which generate a hybrid geometry whose tectonics are born from the translation of the pre-existing structure of the place.