Extension of the Murcia tennis club

Javier Peña Galiano

When we received the commission to fit out the car park, its structure had already exceeded the ground level, so we tried to work with architectural actions capable of being combined with a support in process. In the intervening period of time, the urban development management with the Murcia City Council would generate an increase in the buildable volume from 0.40 m2/m2 to 0.70 m2/m2, in order to build a new car park floor. The rest of the volume allowed for the creation of new spaces, which were made concrete in successive approaches. The change in elevation of the courts, from +0.00m to +4.30m, forced a rethinking of their organisation and relationship with the rest of the club: new views and acoustic conditions appeared between uses, the circulations became vertical, the fences became façades.

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The construction of the tracks was conceived as an artificial, dry landscape, sensitive to a ground zero ... where the recreational areas are in continuity with the sports areas, using different objects and textures that three-dimensionally nuance this active plane.

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Three objects ("bridge", "leaf", "pergola") form spaces to support social activities and replace the annexed premises with new ones, also providing space for toilets and a playroom. The 'metallic trees' break the monotony and reconfigure the backgrounds, such as interruptions, shadows, reflections, fluorescent lighting, entangled trajectories? From the variation of these colours, we selected a series of 'tennis' materials, distributed according to the uses as pachtwork and with galvanised steel as structural material: artificial grass of different lengths, ceramic brick, greenset, metallic lacquers, Banul platelets, vitreous glass mosaic tiles, textile nets, plasticised meshes, deployés, etc.

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General information

Extension of the Murcia tennis club

YEAR

2004

Status

Built

Option to visit

Free visit

Address

St. Cronista Carlos Valcárcel, 5

30008 Murcia - Murcia

Latitude: 37.993223065

Longitude: -1.134567496

Classification

Building materials

Metal

Aluminium

Construction system

Reinforced concrete and lightweight roofing

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

VIII BEAU

Involved architects

Javier Peña Galiano

Collaborators

Joaquín Fernández (Architect)

Lola Jiménez (Architect)

Information provided by

Javier Peña Galiano

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