LLPS Architect - "Gran Canary Arena"

 

 

PALACIO MULTIUSOS. GRAN CANARIA ARENALas Palmas de Gran Canaria / 2002-2014Concurso internacional / 1º PREMIOXIII BEAU  2016/ OBRA PREMIADAX BIAU 2016 / OBRA SELECCIONADAInstalación deportiva / Obra terminada / 56.000 m2 

LLPS Architects presents the Gran Canary Arena. The project establishes in the environment a building-object that faces up to the urban landscape, invading it and, in the same time, working as a reference, trying to join together all the urban chaos: from the pedestrian sketch, up to the wheel track traffic in surrounding its perimeter. The plot tries to respond to the city creating an urban space that work as a meeting place and an urban square with different possibilities.

The LLPS Architects’ building can be considered not only as a finishing touch of the Sports City in Siete Palmas, but also as a characteristic object of the urban area, which generates its own personal language. The constant dialectics between the building and the square set up a link that forms a unique system: the building cannot be understood without the urban space, and on the contrary.

The Multi-Purpose Palace declares itself as a categorical and geometrical placed on the western hillside of the plot. The plan has a total surface area of total de 51,118.00 m², 11,485 m² of which belong to the pavilion, which dimensions are 123.50 metres length by 93.00 metres wide and 21.00 metres high. The installations have space for more over 10,000 spectators and 33 toilets, 270 parking spaces besides 2,000 metres for buses. Likewise it has 725 m² intended for the news media, a 1,185 m² skylight that allows the practice of activities with daylight, as well as 986 m² of curtain walls, which allow the possibility of not being visible the empty seats with a scant.

The place has been host of important events as the World Basketball Championship in 2014 and the final stage of the King Basketball Cup in 2015.

 

 

Memo

This architecture has multi-purpose, which is related to surrounding urban area. I think architecture of the future should be primarily concerned with social environment. As people's habitats in Korea change rapidly, they will become more individual today and have a bad impact on the future. Therefore, we need to provide space for people to spend time with strangers and neighbors.

https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/gran-canary-arena-llps-architects

Gran Canary Arena by LLPS Architects | The Strength of Architecture | From 1998

http://www.llps-arquitectos.com/obra/2-gran-canaria-arena-2014-/