산과 바다를 사이에 위치한 대지. 그리고 이 제한적인 대지 위에 들어선 스포츠 컴플렉스의
막구조물은 바다와 대지의 가시선을 연결하는 뷰포인트를 형성하며
주변 랜드스케이프로 부터 인상적인 시퀀스를 만들어 낸다.
도시 스포츠를 위한 도시공원으로 확장된 스포츠 컴플렉스는
정규 럭비리그와 풋볼 그리고 국제 육상경기를 위한 시설로 제공되며
주변 6개의 학교의 운동장으로도 활용된다.
이와같이 외부공용공간의 확대를 위해 계획되고 건축되는 건축물의 목표는
지역 커뮤니티를 위한 서비스 유틸리티 확보에 의이가 있다.
여기 스포츠 컴플렉스에 설치된 막구조물은 스포츠의 역동적인 흐름을 모티브로
주변자연환경과 조화를 이루는 스펙타클한 '멕시칸 웨이브'라고 일컬어 지는
조형미를 만들어 낸다. 패브릭 커버, 메탈, 우드, 무반사 유리는
구조물을 이루는 주요한 재료로 하늘과 주변 배경을 부드럽게 여과하여
내부에 위치한 객석으로 투영시킴으로써 스포츠 관람을 위해 착석한 관중들의
시선확보와 안전을 도모한다. 여기에 야간시에는 내부로 부터 확산되는 조명을 통해
구조미가 들어나는 드라마틱한 시퀀스를 만들어 낸다.
reviewed by SJ
With the mountains on one side and the Mediterranean Sea on the other,
The Léo Lagrange stadium stands on a site that is limited in space but
with limitless views out to sea, enhancing the remarkable landscape.
Architects: Archi5, Borja Huidobro
Location: Toulon, France
Engineering: Ingérop
Landscape Architects: Michel Desvigne
Client: Toulon Provence Méditerranée
Area: 4,500 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Sergio Grazia
The sports complex is a vast urban park devoted to sporting and fun
activities containing three regional rugby and football pitches,
international athletics and six school playing fields.
The architectural project fits seamlessly into the environment while
accenting the highly visible quality of a public facility and its
centrality as a gathering point and meeting place. It provides a
breathing space in a relatively dense fabric, a public sphere in harmony
with its location.
The architectural urban design is structured by its legibility,
consistency and openness to the venue. All constructed volumes for
competition and greeting the public are concentrated within a covered
public footbridge designed like a jetty that recalls Toulon’s historic
ties with the sea.
The jetty’s aerial architecture makes it seem detached from the ground,
hovering above massed vegetation that structures the site and resembling
a huge sailing ship at anchor. It offers a covered, belvedere-like
walkway with close-up views of the sport fields and more distant ones of
the horizon and Mount Faron.
Drawing its inspiration from the flowing dynamics of sport, the jetty’s
textile cover describes flexible, generous movement that matches the
spectators’ “Mexican waves” and harmonizes with the surrounding
landscape. Its form changes incessantly depending on where it is viewed
from.
The cover’s fabric, the metal, wood and non-reflecting glass create a
volume that captures the subtle colours of natural light with the
covering fabric taking on the hues of the sky and land.
At night the inner-lit textile cover turns into a luminous ribbon like a wave of light and gives full expression to the place’s sporting and event functions. Visible from a distance, the jetty provides the region with a new landmark.
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