Swimming Pools For Vigo University / Francisco Mangado

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Swimming Pools For Vigo University / Francisco Mangado - Windows
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The plot chosen is at the highest point of the university campus, a location that gives it a special value in the relationship between the city of Orense and the campus, currently encumbered by the presence of a busy road between them. Opting for a program oriented towards leisure, and that may thereby serve both the university community and the people of Orense will help to heighten the value of the building as an element of urban interaction.

Swimming Pools For Vigo University / Francisco Mangado - Facade, Windows
© Pedro Pegenaute

This special location has inspired the main conceptual and formal decisions of the project. The proposal is drawn up as a vast platform that looks onto the campus, and the whole organization of functions is indebted to this idea. The users will be able to see the campus and its buildings from this raised platform containing the swimming pools. The platform is designed with bold projections supported by a strong base that, aside from spanning the existing drops, shapes the pools and contains all the water treatment services and necessary systems for the correct performance of the program. The contrast between this massive, topographic base and the cantilevering light glass surfaces surrounding the public level of swimming pools is one the basic formal arguments of the project.

Swimming Pools For Vigo University / Francisco Mangado - Windows, Steel
© Pedro Pegenaute

The access to the pool from the highest area allows accommodating the main functions in a single floor. The complementary uses – changing rooms and restrooms – follow an L-shape. Embraced by these are the poolside spaces, “floating” beyond the structural and functional limits imposed.

Swimming Pools For Vigo University / Francisco Mangado - Windows
© Pedro Pegenaute

The roof is the central element. Seen from the top floors of the housing blocks fronting the plot it becomes the facade and main image of the building. From the interior, acting as ceiling of the pools, its geometry seeks a prominent role by defining a space that is detached and projected towards the campus.

Vast concrete at the base, glass and wood compose the material palette used both inside and outside.

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Address:Ourense, Tây Ban Nha

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Cite: "Swimming Pools For Vigo University / Francisco Mangado" 27 Apr 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/229583/swimming-pools-for-vigo-university-francisco-mangado> ISSN 0719-8884

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