Makin Molowny Portela has completed the Valle San Lorenzo Municipal Sports Hall, located in Aroma, south of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. A proposal that is part of a larger plan for sports facilities located in strategic places in the municipality.

The material approach used from the rigorous construction of wooden beams that control the large spans of 38.50 meters long, positioned on the perimeter walls and reinforced concrete pillars. Material solutions that from the finish and efficiency give it the character of orthogonal solidity as a base and structural undulations in the coverage.

Located between an intermediate flat topography between the middle slope and the island of La Gomera, the Makin Molowny Portela project manages to become a fragment of landscape that looks towards the Atlantic Ocean thanks to its north-south orientation and the so-called lack of scale, described by the authors.

The different activities of active sports architecture control its light and acoustic conditioning in such a way that there are no distractions to the outside. Managing to mitigate the effects of the Canarian climate on the building and the multiple possibilities of the interior spaces.

A multiplicity of situations on a horizontal basement on the ground floor and curvature in the roof, compared to the horizon line, as if it were the local basaltic rock.
 

Project description by Makin Molowny Portela

Valle San Lorenzo Municipal Sports Hall is located in the municipality of Arona, in the south of Tenerife, which is one of the western islands in the Canary archipelago.

The job consisted in creating a covered space for the practice of different sports and for eventually hosting ceremonies, presentations or concerts.

This sport hall is developed in an area of the municipality of Arona where the city council intends to locate various sport facilities. Our studio is also involved in the construction of the new Óscar Pérez Barrios Stadium, which is located close to the sports hall.

The proposal is north-south oriented and it is constructed on some kind of horizontal topography provided by the plot. The location offers great views both of the Atlantic Ocean and the neighbour island of La Gomera.

The scale or, more specifically, the lack of it, was one of our biggest concerns from the start of the job. For example, there is a lack of gaps that normally give us an idea of the dimensions that we usually find in sport halls. Playing with gaps, when the entrance of light and air is necessary, might result in an external distraction for the spectator, not providing a continuous image of the building’s interior.

The proposal contemplates a great covered space dedicated to training and indoor football, handball, basketball or volleyball games, surrounded by changing rooms in the east side, all in one floor. In the north side, a two-floor section contains service areas and multi-purpose areas. The top floor of this area has views of the building’s interior and contains a space dedicated to yoga or Pilates lessons.

An external brick enclosure with continuous cladding in grey anthracite, with 9 m height exposed concrete pillars, is solved in the top thanks to a structure of laminated wood beams of 38.5 meters length and a sandwich type enclosure with metallic finishing in the same colour as in the façade.

The sports hall is finished with exposed, smooth and bush-hammered concrete, a wooden platform for the indoor flooring, and a cantilevered metal cover that tries to match the infinite line of the distant horizon. As a result, these elements integrate the building into the surrounding landscape as if it was another basaltic rock of this land of volcanoes.

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Makin Molowny Portela.- Rodrigo Makin, Javier Molowny, Fernando Portela, Alberto A. Portela.
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Quantity surveyor.- Taherpe SLP.
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Client
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Arona City Council.
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Acciona.
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2,600 m²


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2020
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Suppliers.- Roca, Egoin, Arcelor Mittal, Knauf, Philips, Legrand, Weber, Trespa, Cortizo, Junkers.
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Valle San Lorenzo, Arona, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Makin Molowny Portela is an architecture firm established by Rodrigo Makin, Javier Molowny, Fernando Portela and Alberto A. Portela. The firm is a multidisciplinary studio integrating architecture and engineering based in Tenerife. We prepare every project not only to meet customer needs but to deliver the results of the research that any assignment requires and to obtain a product that possesses the desired architectural quality.

A highly-qualified team of professionals works together in the search for excellence in design. For them, work and customer commitment are the foundation of any creative process.

Throughout its career, the studio has acquired great experience developing proposals for single and multiple residential projects, sport facilities, educational and cultural centres, public space projects, refurbishment and interior design projects, within and outside the country.
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Published on: May 12, 2020
Cite: "The structure of absence. Valle San Lorenzo Municipal Sports Hall by Makin Molowny Portela" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/structure-absence-valle-san-lorenzo-municipal-sports-hall-makin-molowny-portela> ISSN 1139-6415
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