[ Coll-Barreu Arquitectos ] City of Jaca Hockey Arena

Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos - Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutierrez Zarza
Location: Jaca (Huesca), Spain
Collaborators: Pablo Castro, Gorka Garcia, Estibaliz Sanz Reyero, Jorge Bilbao
Project year: 2004-2005
Construction year: 2005-2008
Constructed area: 18,123 sqm
Budget: 24,418,149 EURO (US $32,97M)
Structure: Arup
Ice Production: Ati
Contractor: Vias
Photographs: Aleix Bague

The City of Jaca Hockey Arena has been the most representative facility of the European Youth Olimpic Festival of Jaca 2007, the first event in the Pyrennes.

Two ice rinks allow the pavillion to celebrate hockey, figure skating, short track curling competitions, being simultaneously a recreational ice center.

The building has reinforced the relevance of the ice in Jaca.It has regenerate an undeveloped area of the city and it has become a successful reference of the Future of Jaca.

Throught the sipirit of the First Winter Games, the project suggestes the idea of natural landscape recovering its great relevance in this kind of indoor activities.

from  archdaily