Casa dos Atletas (Athlete’s House) provides an answer to three main objectives: to comply with the functional program provided by the FPF; to locate the construction in a rugged and narrow terrain; to relate the construction with the existing buildings, concerning their alignments and architectural expression.
Based on these objectives, we developed a solution characterized by:
- Fitting the building in the uneven terrain, designing the new building with 3 floors to the south and a floor to the north, leaving a significant part of the social areas "buried".
– Maintenance of part of the slope on the south side, which acts as a "filter" between the new construction and the main field.
– Implementation and organization with all rooms facing south, with the circulation space to the north acting as acoustic protection regarding the surrounding roads.
– Alignment of the floors of the new building with the dimensions of the existing gabion walls.