On week­days, a running track, a roller skating rink, a street workout park, a trai­ning area and a street food service will be available here.

So the legacy of this event is likely to be spec­ta­cular: the Nemzeti Atlé­tikai Központ forms the centre of the new park in the reno­vated indus­trial area, inclu­ding the surroun­ding Danube bank area.

 In addi­tion, Buda­pest will receive a new public sports and recrea­tion park.

The stadium was built in the middle of the park. On week­days, instead of the tempo­rary upper tier, a covered and illu­mi­nated running track, a roller skating rink, a street workout park, a trai­ning area and a street food service will be available here.

Under the stands there is another running track, which can be used for warming up. All the running tracks are from Mondo.

All the running tracks are from Mondo. MONDOTRACK WS™ is almost half made of natural rubber and non-toxic, recy­cled mate­rials. So it meets the stric­test certi­fi­ca­tion criteria for the emis­sion of vola­tile organic compounds.

In addi­tion to the 14,000 m² running track, the other athle­tics equip­ment also comes from Mondo – for the first time in Buda­pest, it is tail­ored to the visual appearance of the event.

In the future, the roof cons­truc­tion will form a kind of urban pergola, while the inte­rior with its sports areas will serve as a publicly acces­sible urban space on the banks of the Danube.

The roof cons­truc­tion will be preserved after the compe­ti­tions, as will the entire lighting, sound and score­board systems. This will make it possible to host major inter­na­tional events here in the future as well – with the help of mobile grand­stands.

These mobile grand­stands in the upper tier can accom­mo­date up to 25,000 seats, but smaller capa­ci­ties are also possible. In any case, these tempo­rary struc­tures will be dismantled again after future events, and the vacated area will be returned to grass­roots sports.

The Gymnase Georges Pompidou is a link between the city’s histo­rical heri­tage and the ambi­tions of its future deve­lo­p­ment.

The recon­s­truc­tion of the Pompidou gymna­sium is a key phase in the rege­ne­ra­tion of a rapidly chan­ging neigh­bor­hood in Cour­be­voie. Taking advan­tage of its remar­kable loca­tion at the corner of the two major axes of the City, the project assumes an essen­tial func­tion of urban repair between the hete­ro­ge­neous buil­ding heights, a link between the histo­rical heri­tage of the City and the ambi­tion of future faci­li­ties.

The general sobriety of the buil­ding volume contri­butes to its urban inte­gra­tion and gives it the forma­lity of a public buil­ding.

The project chall­enge was to inte­grate a large number of func­tions and spaces within a small site: sports acti­vi­ties (sports hall with stands, dojo, trai­ning room, dance studio, outdoor playing fields), cultural acti­vi­ties (music rooms dedi­cated to the muni­cipal harmonic orchestra) but also the relo­cated muni­cipal public gardens service.

The buil­ding mainly houses sports acti­vi­ties: a sports hall with blea­chers, a dojo hall, a trai­ning room, a dance studio and also outdoor courts.

The coexis­tence of these three enti­ties responds to very diffe­rent opera­tional cons­traints, hence the exch­ange with the extreme and neces­sary compact­ness of the buil­ding.

The proposal is based on the rational super­po­si­tion of these func­tions on three readily acces­sible levels. These access routes adapt to diffe­rent publics while provi­ding views and trans­pa­ren­cies over the entire project areas.

Large windows on the ground floor give pede­strians a good view of the inte­rior, while the glazed areas on the upper floor offer perspec­tives of the neigh­bour­hood.

The buil­ding engages in an inti­mate dialogue with the City which projects inside and, at the same time, opens out to its surroun­dings: large windows on the ground floor provide the passer-by with an exten­sive view of the acti­vity within the rooms, the fully glazed upstairs recep­tion areas over­look the neigh­bor­hood.

The general buil­ding volume is composed of hori­zontal layers – alter­na­ting white concrete facing block and full-height glazed openings – which contri­bute to the unified project.

The Centro Depor­tivo Las Eras was trans­formed from a mono-func­tional faci­lity of the 1980s into a more than versa­tile sports centre of our time.

The new exten­sion is directly linked to its natural envi­ron­ment. The old facade evolves gene­ra­ting a second faceted skin that protects and charac­te­rizes the project.

The result is a frag­mented volume that gene­rates a new public space with its move­ment and revamps the old sports center’s image.

A trian­gu­lated geometry which mirrors its inner pearl towards the outside: a clim­bing wall for the town resi­dents, intrin­si­cally linked to the moun­tains.

The new faci­li­ties scheme is orga­nized among two elements: “The Box” and “The stairs”.

“The box” is s a free­stan­ding volume with an indus­trial character divided in two diffe­rent levels and finished with oriented strand boards.

The ground floor­plan includes chan­ging rooms and two multi­pur­pose rooms; a 90sqm one and a bigger one, around 130sqm and over 12 meters long with fencing faci­li­ties.

The first floor consists of a 100sqm spin­ning room and a GYM with over 300sqm. There is also a cafe­teria, directly linked to the new urban outdoor space.

The main stair­case serves as a connec­tion between the old pavi­lion and the new exten­sion.

It’s atta­ched to the solid concrete wall of the old fronton court.  Some openings have been placed stra­te­gi­cally to act as “inte­rior windows”, allo­wing for a direct visual connec­tion between the new and the old thus, uniting the whole volume.

The clim­bing wall: a moun­tain symbol

Semi-buried and peeking towards the end of the corridor is the clim­bing wall. Desi­gned toge­ther with local clim­bers, it takes advan­tage of the old pavi­lion, using it as its main clim­bing support. The space loses height towards the boulder, thanks to a series of trian­gular tensioned trusses until it reaches its original human scale.

The project has been thought of taking into account its imme­diate urban surroun­dings too: its access and commu­ni­ca­tions. A new main access for the entire complex has been created, located in a slightly elevated square which is accessed through a comple­tely reno­vated prome­nade.

The mesh: a connec­ting element

The new program is protected and wrapped within a micro-perfo­rated skin that emerges from the exis­ting metal facade and evolves adap­ting itself to the geome­tries and inten­tions of the new project.

It’s a new shell that gives cohe­sion and unity to the entire complex. It acts both as a light filter towards the south and as a protec­tive shell, resistant to possible external impacts.

The chosen see-through mate­rial creates a trans­pa­rent volume where you can “see without being seen” from the inside; a living façade that dema­te­ria­lizes depen­ding on the time of the day.