Cuneo Multipurpose Sports Center

Exterior view of the sports center set into its landscape.

Project Details

• Project Name: Cuneo Multipurpose Sports Center
• Client: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo
• Project Type: Architectural and Landscape design
• Principal Designer: Fulvio Quattroccolo
• Design Team: Nicoletta Oddera, Fabrizio Vanni, Giorgio Domini, Guido Morino
• Contractor: Edilcrea snc
• Date of commencement of project: January 2001
• Date of completion of project: June 2004
• Location of site: Cuneo, Italy
• Site Area: 12,000 square meters
• Built-up Area: 2,324 square meters
• Cost of Construction: 1,300,000 Euros

View of the public entrance to the building located in the northern end of the site.

The Building

The design of this multipurpose sports center derives from a research carried out by the designers exploring the division of the program into a number of operative elements from which various unit-spaces and volumes are articulated.

These are then integrated into a re-invented functional system, based on logical and geometrical agendas and following suggestions from the terrain on site.

Exterior view of the openings to the inner plazas.

The center is located at the edge of a new urban settlement of small-sized houses, surrounded by a charming view of southern Alps.

The context presented a challenge in relating the large volumes of a playground-shelter with smaller houses.

The design thus breaks up the volumes setting the new building into landscape.

View of the athletes' entrance located on the southern end of the site.

The different functional units are provided access to and bound into a coherent experience by a path that traverses the entire site, constantly moving into and out of the building.

Initiating in a public square in the north, it progresses towards the southern edge of the site.

The path is set on two levels segregating the informal visitor from the athletes.

Interior view of the basketball court.

The design explores materials in rough form. Material are therefore used in a direct and simple manner, exposing the structural composition of the building as well.

The roughness of materials also induces an urban feel in the inner connecting spaces.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs by Fulvio Quattroccolo, Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Mitesh Saraf