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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

New Swimming Center in Brescia, Italy by Camillo Botticini Architects

 
February 16th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Camillo Botticini Architects 

The project for the realization of the Brescia’s swimming center, is located in the district of Mompiano in the north part of the city, near the football stadium.

The volume is characterized as an urban architecture, open to a specific relationship with the sorroundings, against the logic of sports building seen as ubiquitous object, placeable in each site.

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

  • Architects: Camillo Botticini Architetto with Arch. Francesco Craca, Arch. Arianna Foresti, ATI with Studio Montanari and Arch Nicola Martinoli
  • Project: New Swimming Center
  • Location: Mompiano, Brescia, Italy
  • Photography: Niccolò Galeazzi and Alessandro Galperti
  • Client: Brescia Mobilità S.p.a.
  • Structural engineering: Ing. Claudio Toniolo, Ing, Giorgio Piliego
  • Services engineering: Milano Progetti S.r.l., Palumbo Ingegneri Associati
  • Electrical engineering: Studio Cvr Engineering
  • Collaborators: Arch. Michela Cibaldi, Arch. Paola Bettinsoli, Geom. Ignazio Marchetti
  • Project management: Ing. Marco Rossi, Arch Alessio Rossi
  • Contractor: Campana Costruzioni srl
  • Mechanical engineering: Palumbo ingegneri associati
  • Supervisor of construction: Geom. Roberto Migliorati
  • Responsible for the procedure: arch. Vera Sabatti
  • Area: 12.000 m2
  • Schedule: 2005-2007
  • Costruction: 2010-2013

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

The architectural theme is expressed by treating the compact compact block of the brown Klinker (84 x 42 x 9 meters) through a sequence of excavated fronts, that change its character in relatioship to the interior spaces and the different conditions of external reference.

This deep cuts crossing the volume and bringing the light inside the pool spaces, create precise visual relationships between the different spaces. Between the cuts of the west side there are the two staircases that connect the locker room with the public entrance on the south side of the swimmig pool placed on the northern part of the complex.

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

The distribution organizes three functional parts: a main  big room with a pool for water polo (33 x 25 m) equipped with a 800 seat grandstand, a nucleus of changing rooms on three levels, (athletes, users and fitness) and a room with two small pools for courses.

The main room has a large window facing the north outside lawn and to the east side it opens toward a patio with big bamboo’s plants.

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

On the south side, facing the street, behind the grandstand, a glass wall illuminates the underground technical spaces.The big pool room’s west internal elevation presents two vertical cuts that connect this area to the smaller pools and the public entrance.

In the west block, where the locker rooms and the two small pools for the courses are located, an horizontal window runs around the corners creating a visual continuity that connects the small pool hall with the one of water polo. On the east side, a loggia opens the gym to the exthernal  swimming pools, while another double-height loggia with a bar is in direct relation with the south public entrance.

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Alessandro Galperti

Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi

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Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architects

Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architects

Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architects

Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architects

Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architects

Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architects

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