VAUMM shared with us their first prize winning proposal in the competition for the remodeling of Molinao Park and the location of a covered and open fronton in Spain. Their design pretends to be the continuity of the park situated along the riverside and the eastern end of the town to the highway and Don Bosco slope. The fronton (sports space) is situated at the southern end of the park, next to the pedestrian access from the Oarso street bridge, so that releases the largest area of the open space to the north, near the train viaduct and the possible accesses through it to create a space which allows the use of it with temporary uses. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The equipment answers to the level difference at the southern end and it emerges as the closing volume of the slopes of the park, so the top of the building reduce its height and therefore its impact, to be well integrated forming the highest part of the park topography. In the same way the bleachers of the fronton are raised in continuity with the green areas of the boulevard and a green fold hides the level difference resolved with those bleachers. The idea pretends to plant some trees in the green area which may create shadow on the bleachers formalizing an area that is part of the fronton and the park at the same time.
