3D Athletics Track in Elda, Alicante Building, Spain Design Project, Photo, News, Image

3D Athletics Track in Elda

Contemporary Architecture in Alicante, Spain : Architecture – design by Subarquitectura

18 Apr 2011

3D Athletics Track

Location: Elda, near Alicante, Spain

Design: Subarquitectura

Designing an athletic track could get you as bored as when you are running on it: curve, straight, curve, straight, again and again…

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Perfectly standardized, sport architecture has become more universal than international style. Track length of 400 m, 36.5 m radious. 1.22 m each lane….just data, without any fissure to let your imagination soar.

photos from Subarquitectura

We have added to the conventional track an alternative one, amateur and funny, raised and tree-dimensional. It goes off on a tangent, covers the changing rooms and returns to the coventional track.

As new ways are available for athletes, spectators get involved in the sport activity, seated in-between this two tracks.

This is our tribute to all the sport pioners that created new ways of performing that later others followed. Tom Burke, Dick Fosbury, Graeme Obree….

photos from Subarquitectura