In the peaceful Buch valley, a new sports facility demands a careful approach to scale. Surrounded by homes, farms, and communal gardens on a green plain, the site is defined by infrastructure boundaries like highways and railways.
Existing tennis courts align with the landscape and are preserved, guiding the project’s layout. The design features a series of parallel, thick, equipped pavilions extending across the site. While the new center is larger than nearby buildings, the scale shift is subtle to maintain harmony with the surroundings. The architecture remains discreet, avoiding pastiche.
The project emphasizes horizontal deployment without stacking sports fields like tennis, basketball, and volleyball. Each sport is housed in simple parallelepiped volumes with curved roofs, creating recognizable units arranged tangentially along an oblique line parallel to the site boundary. This results in dynamic stepped massing that blends into the topography and landscape.
Structural and functional thicknesses between sports zones accommodate essential services—retractable bleachers, locker rooms, and offices—while also forming a covered public passage. The reception pavilion, hosting a gourmet restaurant, contrasts by concentrating activity at its center and allowing generous circulation space.
Curved roofs define four vaults, balancing economical construction with spatial performance: spacious interiors with high ceilings, and modest exterior proportions blending with nearby buildings.