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Architects: Gerardo Valle Arquitectos
- Area: 2906 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Aryeh Kornfeld
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Manufacturers: Arauco, TecnoSport
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Text description provided by the architects. The project is a Gym-tent, a structure that serves as a great space for children to practice sports and other educational activities.
It is a project that responds to the needs and requirements of the school, but also to specific matters such as the challenge of building it in a short time, that it should be low cost and that required little maintenance, all of which is explained by its character of temporary construction.
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The design should consider a structure that could be transitory, able to be dismantled at a certain moment to be emplaced in another place.
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We worked a bolted and enveloping metal structure of white cloth under the concept of a large tent. The ground base of the volume was marked with a lattice of black painted wood and polycarbonate to give transparency and greater luminosity to this space.
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The volume is a single large space of 9.00 meters, the highest part by 12.50 meters wide and 21.60 meters long, configuring itself as a white prism that stands out among the trees that surround it.
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Currently this space is used for different purposes because its size and height allows flexibility of use, which was part of the requirements.
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On the other hand the cloth material allows the controlled distribution of light during the day, as does the polycarbonate socket. The latter also generates diffuse shadows and a light filter effect throughout the day, which adds to the fact that, when it is darker, it acts as a large lamp.
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