sports hall “Gianni Brera

customer

Comune di Castel Mella, Brescia, IT

place

Castel Mella (BS)

surface

2.200 MQ

chronology

2003: Project, 2004 – 2006: Realization

performance

Integral and coordinated design and construction management.

Description

The sports building looks like a shell structure made with reinforced concrete load-bearing elements and wooden slats and roofing in insulated laminated wood covered with verdigris-colored aluminum sheets. The building is located north of a large area intended for public and sporting green areas and east of the school complex, connected to it by the pedestrian roads. In addition to the entrance hall, there are: a gym of regulation size for the game of basketball with a grandstand for the public of 200 seats, toilets, a gym of regulatory dimensions for the game of volleyball, a multipurpose tooling gym, two Gyms on the first floor equipped with changing rooms with double bathrooms and showers for players, referees and professors, a storage area, offices, an infirmary and technical rooms. Natural lighting is obtained by means of large perimeter windows that constitute a vertical infill on the two main fronts.