Stabilimento Balneare Lido del lago Segrino
BATHING ESTABLISHMENT ON LAKE SEGRINO – EUPILIO (CO)
Architect: Studio di architettura Marco Castelletti architetto
Project team: Marco Castelletti, Lorena Cavalletti
Photographs: Filippo Simonetti
International Awards:
2004 The international award AR+D for emerging architecture in London
2006 "Gold Medal for Italian Architecture - Triennale Milano"
"New Alpine Architecture 2006 - Institut fur Alpine Architektur -
Bolzano"
2008 was commended at international award "Dedalo Minosse -Vicenza"
RELATION
The bathing establishment is a pavilion inside the Park of Segrino Lake
on the flat area of the beach on the southern part of the area.
Thougth to make sport activities and leausures connected to the presence
of the lake powerfull, the new building establishes a dialogue with the
surrounding nature and searches for a longer profile that tryes to insert
between the provincial road and the borders of the lake with a front that
develops for 90 metres under the road along the existing cycle lane.
The pavilion is closed to the road and the cycle lane by a wall that artificially
re-draws, though the using of a cement additived with oxide, the consistency
and the lying position of the stone emerging on the other side of the
road and exteds itself on a unique level of 3,00 metres of high inserted
on the ground with a lower covering respect to the viewing line of who
is on the cycle lane to allow the view of the lake.
The entrance, indicated by a vertical "little tower" , is directly
joined to the pedestrian/cycle lane by two pedestrian ramps that go down
on the level of the border. Walked past the entrance to the beach the
pavilion is clearly visible, poised on the ground as a "pile-work",
carachterized by a linear structure, made by piles, beams and wooden bands
and joined to the lake through footway in wood.
The whole constuction, excluding the wall to the road and foundations,
has been studied and realized with a wooden structure produced in establisment
and assembled dry while setting up.
Drawn on a squared area of 5,00x5,00 metres it has a planimetrical establishment
at "L" wich characterized two right-angled used respectively
as changing rooms and refreshing point and surrounded by arcades.
On the lobby of the entrance, opened to the lake on the arcade between
two closed volumes, there is the ticket office. The part along the road
contains the changing rooms, a turkish bath, the nursery and a stocking
room while the other part that views directly to the lake contains the
bar and restrooms, staff rooms, thermal central and at the first floor
a little managing office.The intervention is completed by inserting of
wooden quays that, detached from arcades, join together lake and pavilion
and bound, following a cartesian order, the swimming area opened to the
lake to the sheltered area of the internal basin used for docking of rowing
boats.
Stabilimento Balneare Lido del lago Segrino photos / text from Studio
di architettura Marco Castelletti architetto July 2008
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