State
Built
Situation:
c/ de la Encina s/n. Lepe. Huelva
Customer:
Department of Tourism, Commerce and Sports. Junta de Andalucía
Contractor:
UTE Todoriego-Mego
Constructed area:
2,250 m
2
Budget:
1,715,000€
Project - Work
2002-2003
Contest
Architect
Architects
Ignacio Laguillo, Harald Schönegger | Laguillo-Schönegger Architects
Architecture
Co-author Project
Project Co-authors
Associate Architect
Associate Architects
Collaborating Architect:
Local Architects
Technical Architecture:
Manuel Delgado
Equipment:
Inmaculada Donaire and Virginia Martinez
Collaborator
Collaborators
Structure:
Enrique Cabrera — English
Facilities:
Tomas Ruiz - Insur JG
Landscaping:
Furniture
Model
Photograph:
Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda
At the northern end of the town of Lepe, the City Council established the sports use for a 13,000 square meter plot of land, within a residential expansion area of the urban area.
The construction of outdoor courts with common changing rooms and a parking lot was foreseen; the multi-purpose indoor swimming pool, a parallelepiped of brick and concrete located in a north-south direction, acting as the attraction point of the complex.
The volume, closed in on itself, establishes relations with the exterior by means of two mechanisms: one vertical, corresponding to the two courtyards carved in the interior, and the other horizontal, through deep openings at both ends. Slightly excavated in the ground, the pool occupies the basement and the first floor, and also has a mezzanine on an upper level. It is accessed from the first floor level on the western side. The entrance hall, visually connected to the central courtyard, articulates the circulations by establishing two zones: the first corresponds to the swimmers and includes the changing rooms illuminated by the side courtyard – where bamboo stems have been planted –, the access tunnel to the pools, which wraps around the central courtyard, and the pool space itself, where the two pools and beaches are located next to the sports equipment stores, toilets and showers; the second corresponds to the general public and leads to the mezzanine, where the best views are enjoyed both towards the bathing area and towards the exterior landscape and the management and administration area.
A sequence of skylights covers the main nave, providing natural lighting throughout the day and acting as a beacon for the building at nightfall, when the swimming pool is still in operation. In the same way, from the water it is also possible to observe the landscape outside, through the large window to the south and the opening cut into the north wall, from which the tops of the trees that decorate the central courtyard can be seen.
A system of prestressed reinforced concrete box girders covers the swimming pool area; the rest of the volume is supported by a mixed structure of hidden concrete beams and columns and metal profiles at certain points where they can be understood as part of the carpentry. The first floor and the mezzanine have one-way floor slabs of self-supporting beams, except for the overhangs, the access corridor to the pools and the roof under the south window, which have been resolved with reinforced concrete slabs on the lower faces.



















