Football Stadium Lasesarre
Completion:1999-2003
English Field
... incredible teams arrived on foreign ships, taught several locals new rules, initially nonsensical, about returning to nature by kicking a ball... The moist green grass lined with white chalk can fill any field with curious spectators; sitting on the slopes, close, even so close that some tossed aside their radios and joined the game... Again, another field, this time artificial, a hill to sit on, surrounded by greenery, almost as if we were playing, another chance...
The Quivering of Plants
How hard it is to project with nature, which continually confronts us, and we only have ordinary, limited means to imitate it. The stadium wants to present a sensitive kind of masking using the light variations of a forest of 1001 trees that we planted next to the stadium, with the use of artificial/plants made from steel, pulsating under the bent roofing. Entries through this imaginary green curtain will lead us into another geography that controls the flows of spectators and their seating. Topographical Akaris
A strong outdoor image and a symbolic interior made up of diverse ‘buildings’ with independent arrangements separated by bends among the stands individualize the gardens and various sight perspectives. Each of these buildings has its own entrance and facilities, allowing for their independent usage. Construction will now stop for just one and a half hours a week, for male catharsis, perverted meetings of wives, groups of separatist amnesty, or even traditional dancers planning their next street parade. The stadium is not just for sports... There are also those who do not like football, are there not?
Despite a whole range of construction programs, the unity of the structure is maintained by a compact roof that directly reflects the organization of the individual stands. The roof also lets in soft northern light and is arranged at points where rain can penetrate into the inner gardens, that is, if it ever rains vertically. The translucent stacked volume of the building transforms into a lamp glowing like fragile origami after sunset, capable of delineating a light topography in its symbolic role illustrating the survival of an irreplaceable great past.
Three Years Later
Reality is always more surprising than fiction, which is slowly beginning to be the only entertaining part of our work. Micro-piles in stainless steel casings have bored into place through the ruins of the high furnace, on which the stadium stands rest. Forty-meter deep invisible luxury foundations allowed for liberation from the polluted mud gripping the mouth of the Nervión River. A million or more kilograms of bolted steel with added tension so that the individual elements cannot express themselves independently. Shapes made from reinforced steel with constant cores and wings of variable thickness designed to avoid the vulgarity of pressure. A system that proves to be perfect for urgent conditions - solid, durable, but not versatile at all. They are like diamonds - hard, untouchable, and forever. Meters and meters of pipes of all kinds, colors, resistances, thermal and conductive properties, stainless steel, copper, aluminum, polymers, polypropylene, thermally welded, stacked or screwed, all running through a tunnel for the building's technical equipment, where they disappear from the view of eyes but not from control. The most modern light for illuminating and lighting itself recedes and adapts to the geometry of the bends and cuts of the roof inscribed in the core of the building in darkness. For the players, which is an entirely different story, 150 spotlights of thousand-watt beams burn from light cones with adjustable brightness and ready for future digital TV broadcasts. A capable plumber carved a steel forest; a clever assembler stitched together an impossible plastic roof and someone who had no idea how much work it took to design each part of the metal mesh arranged one gap after another between the panels. Work for embroiderers. The laser arrived, and with our village mentality we sighed “Wow!” and after a few strikes, it is already carrying out the entire drainage operation, calibrating the imposing slopes for a single bucket of rain that falls here in the north. Wait, are you really sure we are going to paint all these seats? Nowadays, it is indeed difficult to paint anything in rainbow colors - it would carry with it other meanings in a country that still feels somewhat 'macho'. But in the end, it passed, everything mixed, just like the population itself.
It would be beautiful to have the opening match of Barakaldo Football Club against the rest of the world. After all, the realization took so much effort, didn't it?
... incredible teams arrived on foreign ships, taught several locals new rules, initially nonsensical, about returning to nature by kicking a ball... The moist green grass lined with white chalk can fill any field with curious spectators; sitting on the slopes, close, even so close that some tossed aside their radios and joined the game... Again, another field, this time artificial, a hill to sit on, surrounded by greenery, almost as if we were playing, another chance...
The Quivering of Plants
How hard it is to project with nature, which continually confronts us, and we only have ordinary, limited means to imitate it. The stadium wants to present a sensitive kind of masking using the light variations of a forest of 1001 trees that we planted next to the stadium, with the use of artificial/plants made from steel, pulsating under the bent roofing. Entries through this imaginary green curtain will lead us into another geography that controls the flows of spectators and their seating. Topographical Akaris
A strong outdoor image and a symbolic interior made up of diverse ‘buildings’ with independent arrangements separated by bends among the stands individualize the gardens and various sight perspectives. Each of these buildings has its own entrance and facilities, allowing for their independent usage. Construction will now stop for just one and a half hours a week, for male catharsis, perverted meetings of wives, groups of separatist amnesty, or even traditional dancers planning their next street parade. The stadium is not just for sports... There are also those who do not like football, are there not?
Despite a whole range of construction programs, the unity of the structure is maintained by a compact roof that directly reflects the organization of the individual stands. The roof also lets in soft northern light and is arranged at points where rain can penetrate into the inner gardens, that is, if it ever rains vertically. The translucent stacked volume of the building transforms into a lamp glowing like fragile origami after sunset, capable of delineating a light topography in its symbolic role illustrating the survival of an irreplaceable great past.
Three Years Later
Reality is always more surprising than fiction, which is slowly beginning to be the only entertaining part of our work. Micro-piles in stainless steel casings have bored into place through the ruins of the high furnace, on which the stadium stands rest. Forty-meter deep invisible luxury foundations allowed for liberation from the polluted mud gripping the mouth of the Nervión River. A million or more kilograms of bolted steel with added tension so that the individual elements cannot express themselves independently. Shapes made from reinforced steel with constant cores and wings of variable thickness designed to avoid the vulgarity of pressure. A system that proves to be perfect for urgent conditions - solid, durable, but not versatile at all. They are like diamonds - hard, untouchable, and forever. Meters and meters of pipes of all kinds, colors, resistances, thermal and conductive properties, stainless steel, copper, aluminum, polymers, polypropylene, thermally welded, stacked or screwed, all running through a tunnel for the building's technical equipment, where they disappear from the view of eyes but not from control. The most modern light for illuminating and lighting itself recedes and adapts to the geometry of the bends and cuts of the roof inscribed in the core of the building in darkness. For the players, which is an entirely different story, 150 spotlights of thousand-watt beams burn from light cones with adjustable brightness and ready for future digital TV broadcasts. A capable plumber carved a steel forest; a clever assembler stitched together an impossible plastic roof and someone who had no idea how much work it took to design each part of the metal mesh arranged one gap after another between the panels. Work for embroiderers. The laser arrived, and with our village mentality we sighed “Wow!” and after a few strikes, it is already carrying out the entire drainage operation, calibrating the imposing slopes for a single bucket of rain that falls here in the north. Wait, are you really sure we are going to paint all these seats? Nowadays, it is indeed difficult to paint anything in rainbow colors - it would carry with it other meanings in a country that still feels somewhat 'macho'. But in the end, it passed, everything mixed, just like the population itself.
It would be beautiful to have the opening match of Barakaldo Football Club against the rest of the world. After all, the realization took so much effort, didn't it?
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