Architecture firm Blasco y Esparza Arquitectos designed the new Sports Center in Murchante, a city located in the south of Navarra. The sloping roof building houses new changing rooms, connected to the current fronton, a multipurpose room, and a gym.

The volume of the project was inspired by the pediment of the pre-existing construction to which the new building is attached. The objective is to integrate the building with the environment, through the design of the roofs and smaller volumes.
The Sports Center designed by Blasco and Esparza Arquitectos proposes spaces connected by a gallery that bridges the difference in height between the entrance and the lower area, where the gym is located. With an attractive route, the gallery integrates the school spaces with the gymnasium, promoting the encounter between nature, culture, and sport.

The project reuses the house as a cafeteria on the ground floor and a playroom on the first floor. In the union of both buildings, the accesses, connections, elevator, and stairs are raised.
 

Description of project by Blasco Esparza Arquitectos

A construction of a new building with sloping roofs is proposed, which houses new changing rooms, connected to the current fronton, a multipurpose room, and a gym.

The reference of the final volumetry is an evolution of the pre-existing one in the pediment to which the new building is attached.
 
Faced with ignoring this construction, the new one is integrated with the design of the volumes and roofs, articulating the considerable volume of the pediment with the surroundings, which are smaller in scope. This set of volumes allows a comprehensive reading of all sports facilities, old and new.

The gym is conceived as a flexible sports space with a mezzanine where you can place machines with views of the landscape. All these spaces are connected by a gallery - ramp that bridges the difference in height between the access and the lowest area (gym). On the other hand, the house is reused as a cafeteria on the ground floor and a playroom on the first floor. In the union of both buildings, the accesses, control, connections, elevator, stairs, etc ...

The solution aims to:

- Attach to the general volume the new buildings that allow to minimize the occupation of the adjoining plot, while at the same time covering volumetrically towards the site, the dividing wall, corresponding to the side of the pediment.

- With the minimum occupation on the floor, provide the sports area with green areas - solarium practically doubling the current surface.

- Propose a new access from the new plot for the sports facilities that by means of a setback of the current enclosure and thus produce a widening area in which the fact of the definitive activity generates a meeting point towards the rest of the street.

- The construction system of the new building will be simple, with prefabricated porches that allow an easy and fast execution, reducing the cost, with materials of proven efficiency and durability, achieving good and long-lasting maintenance.

- The air-conditioned areas such as the gym and changing rooms will be designed in such a way that they require minimal maintenance, with a production system of sanitary hot water and highly energy-efficient air conditioning, so that energy consumption is minimal, thus producing great savings.

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Manuel Blasco Blanco, Francisco Blasco Esparza.
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Collaborating Architect.- David Bergasa. Quantity Surveyor.- Alejaldre Alonso. Technical Architects.- Mauricio Alonso. Engineering.- Grupo Seima-Imaga engineers, Lucia Duro.
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Murchante City Council.- Mari Trini Lopez.
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ERRI-BERRI. Site manager.- Iker Rubio.
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2020.
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Murchante, Spain.
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Blasco Esparza Arquitectos, is a practice founded 40 years ago by Manuel Blasco and his wife Belén Esparza. The firm started run in Tudela, during 15 years, has an office in Pamplona. Manolo Blasco is Professor of Constructive Design at the private University of Pamplona ETSA UN, teaching since 1975. He has taught courses in the master's degree program in Architecture at the University of the Isthmus of Guatemala. In 1992, they integrate together with Manolo Sagastume and Luis Tabuenca the company BTS. With her they win the competition of the bus station of Pamplona, ​​and diverse contests of furniture and design for EXPO '92, among others.

The practice always worked with the Public Administration in the development of different typologies, emphasizing the work done in defense and conservation of the heritage with projects such as the Palace of the Marqués de Huarte (Tudela), the Palace Decanal (Tudela), General Chinchilla ( Pamplona) and the house of the Admiral (Tudela). The work has been developed at different scales, from the urban to the design of parts from multiple angles. Lines of furniture and urban equipment are designed for companies in Spain and Portugal, such as DynaMobel, Proiek or Levira.

Recently, with the incorporation of Mª Carmen Domínguez and Curro Blasco, that comes from the study of Rafael Moneo, a more intense development begins in Pamplona and in the rest of the national geography. Hospital projects are carried out in Aragon, La Rioja, Catalonia and Andalusia. The Pamplona Bus Station is run in collaboration with IDOM. Several projects are developed in collaboration with Rafael Moneo's studio, such as the interior design of Panticosa Resort hotels (Panticosa Spa, Huesca), the interior design of the Aragones cinemas (Aragonia shopping center, Zaragoza), the urbanization project of the Gardachales (Tudela) sector, the management of the Josefa Huarte Museum of the University of Navarra (Pamplona), participation in a contest for the management of the "Salesians" plot (Pamplona) and surroundings (Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic). Various solutions have also been studied in other countries such as housing in Algeria, rehabilitation and hospital expansion in Peru, participation in the "build malaria prevention" contest in Cameroon (finalists), participation in the contest of the New Cathedral in Puerto Prince of Haiti, industrial building in Senegal.
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Published on: May 3, 2021
Cite: "Encounter between nature, culture and sport. Sports Pavilion by Blasco Esparza Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
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