Situation

There are more than 15,000 sports faci­li­ties in Chile, however, of the total of these, there is a high percen­tage (more than 30%) of courts in disuse, without main­ten­ance and prac­ti­cally destroyed. In a short time, these cons­truc­tions are trans­formed into a sort of urban and rural corpses devoid of the active care of insti­tu­tional agents.

The metro 21 project “De cancha en cancha” seeks to cover this lack that has left many loca­li­ties – espe­ci­ally rural – with one of the only commu­nity meeting places in ruins. Part of the project precisely seeks to publi­cize what is happe­ning at the local level.

Only art can help.

Surfaces

In general, the sport courts are cons­tructed of asphalt or concrete, which results in a hard and rough surface. These are surfaces that do not with­stand changes in tempe­ra­ture and tend to see your folders cracked over time.

Metro 21 try to take care of this problem by seeking to make them softer and more comfor­table to play, sit, jump, run and dance, thus respon­ding to a recrea­tional space at the service of the commu­nity.

Spektacle

The success of this ambi­tious project is not only due to the careful execu­tion of every detail of the refur­bish­ment work.

De Cancha en Cancha is known and popular because of the appar­ently spec­ta­cular surface design of the pitches. To this end, the plan­ners of Metro 21 have each worked on a project-by-project basis with local artists, who have sought the best design solu­tion for each situa­tion.