Palazzetto dello sport di Olgiate Olona
Filippo Poli Photography

Sport hall of Olgiate Olona

Giulia de Appolonia- officina di architettura as Architects

The project revisits the idea of the sports container as a great impact object in consequence of its previously defined proportions and dimensions, breaking down the volume in two through a horizontal cut that separates two halves with opposite materiality. 

photo_credit Filippo Poli Photography
Filippo Poli Photography

The shift between the two parts articulates the composition and the spaces of relationship with the surrounding with the introduction of a porch in the entrance area of the public and a terrace connected to the emergency exit of the tribune. 

photo_credit Filippo Poli Photography
Filippo Poli Photography

This simple act in a project with such elementary volumes helps to defines the entrance by the shift of the metal beams as symbolically protected space and creates a covered transition space where you can find the external path that connect to the bar located on the first floor. 

photo_credit Filippo Poli Photography
Filippo Poli Photography

This ramp/staircase and outdoor terrace establish an important view of the birch tree forest that separates the building from the public parking.

photo_credit Filippo Poli Photography
Filippo Poli Photography

The two levels represent the relationship with the earth and with the sky: a heavy and opaque basement constructed in prefabricated concrete that roots the building on the ground and protects the sport space and a translucent volume realized in polycarbonate and glass that enters diffused light and establishes the relationship with the sky, also thanks to its high camouflage value to reflect the different colors of the sky and transform chromatically depending on the hours of the day.

photo_credit Filippo Poli Photography
Filippo Poli Photography

The opposition between the essence of these two volumes generate the tension of simple geometries that gives intensity to the intervention.

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