Works #999
UDLM Olympic PoolRealized
SPRB
Location | Guadalajara, Mexico |
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Year | 2021 |
Categories | Architectural Design > Public facilities |
Description Original Language (Spanish)
Rehabilitation of the Olympic Pool in the López Mateos Sports Unit, a 1962 work designed by the architect Alejandro Zohn, cataloged as Modern Heritage. Both the new changing room pavilion and the adaptations to the Olympic pool have been planned for the practice of adapted sports so that, eventually, the sports unit will become the venue for Paralympic sports in Jalisco.
One of the main objectives of the intervention consisted in the restoration of the exposed concrete structures of Alejandro Zohn's original project, several of them at risk of structural collapse. A couple of structures that had been modified over the years were recovered, cleaning them of additions, leaving them exposed and turning them into pavilions for public use. It has been through the open space, with a new landscape project, that the different existing structures have been linked.
For the approach of the new dressing room pavilion, the structural systems and apparent reinforced concrete roofs of the original pavilions were studied, as well as the façade system based on glazed brick walls free of the structure.
The new pavilion attempts to replicate those Zohn structures. The roof structure is supported by several structural cores that house the wet areas and the engine rooms. The V-section beams allow for natural ventilation and overhead lighting, while projecting beyond the envelope of walls that form the façade to dislodge rainwater.
Project:
Laura Sanchez Penichet, Carlos Rodriguez Bernal.
Project in collaboration with SIOP Jalisco.
Collaborators:
José Esparza, Fabio Pano, Ricardo Valdivia, Lidia Nájera.
Structural design:
Andrés Velasco – BEST Gdl
Engineering:
Juan Pablo Rodríguez – JPR Projects
Building:
Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works, Government of Jalisco.
Surface:
Dressing Room Pavilion - 440 m2
Public Pavilions – 835 m2
Olympic Pool and Public Spaces – 16,300 m2
Photography:
Lorraine Darquea
Location:
Guadalajara Jalisco.
Date:
2019-2021.