Club Náutico Lo Pagán, San Pedro del Pinatar

San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain

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Club Náutico Lo Pagán, San Pedro del Pinatar

San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain

Firm

XPIRAL

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Transport + Infrastructure › Marina and Ports

YEAR

2007

Origin
Every
big facility needs a running-in period for fitting to the day-a-day life of the
entities that develop them.
From
the opening of the Marina,
several requirements have been coming out. Some of them functional, some others
representative; these requirements have been solved with the creation of
several infrastructures.
The
main building was probably the most deficient facility of all, so it has been
modified in a global, powerful way that enhances all the shortcomings of the
original building.
This
refurbishment attempts to reach the following targets:
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The creation of a double entrance for the restaurant,
independent for members and for the public, so access control is easier and
public is welcome simultaneously.
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Providing accessibility to every space of the building with
the implementation of ramps, stairs and lifts; indoors and outdoors.
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The construction of a public space, generously sized and
with a representative character, for fostering relations between members.
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The extension of the restaurant and its kitchen. The lounge
expands towards the sea avoiding the sight of the passing vehicles.
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Reorganization of the numerous installations of the offices
and the kitchen on the roof.
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Updating of the offices, public attention area, archives and
seminar rooms, all included in a functional cluster.
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Providing the building with a contemporary image: a
landmark, appropriate to the central position it has respecting to the seafront,
the square, the promenade…like an institutional icon.

Chassis + bodywork
Starting
from the structure of the original building, we have wrapped it with different
skins, pierced with openings when needed, finding paths for new installations,
pipes, etc…
Thus,
the original building merges partially, virtually untreated, showing its scars.
Each one of the new enclosures has its own geometrical and constructive laws.
The only thing in common is the capability of being dismantle: the dry
construction.
As
a result of the application of this constructive system, we have created,
without minding it, an object that evokes marine iconographies: a grounded
building, a ship under construction…
From
the inside as well as from the outside, the building seems to be unfinished, in
progress…moreover the curved timber structure (with different woods, sections
and treatment) and the usage of a variety of metal coverings (zinc, aluminium,
steel in different finishes, etc) deconstruct the image of the building as a unique,
complete, definitive structure, in the scenario of the comings and goings of a
harbor.
A
variety of materials (closed and opaque, opened or translucent) are intended to
put an accent on the Mediterranean light. The building puts together a range of
light hues that depend on the kind of skin that enclosures the space.
The
timber structure takes curved geometries in order to give continuity to the
façades and roofs: a double scale game which magnifies the size of the
building. The variable sections help with the bracing of the new structure in a
light, fluent way, all around the original building.
A
zinc cover fits the cylindrical geometry of the façade and roof, providing
water tightness and solving the joints with the framework by means of a folded
gasket system.
The
windows are specialized responding to the diversity of situations: aluminium
swing windows to the west, glass walls alternating with sliding panels,
transparent and translucent, to the east; folding doors in the restaurant
enphasizing the idea of a porch /terrace and rounded windows in the offices and
seminar rooms pierced in the original wall.
The
expanded metal crooked volume of the lift nucleus is halfway between a nautical
lamp and the finger of an airport and it’s able to filter natural and
artificial light homogeneously.
Copper
naphthenate treated pine planks in different sizes give continuity between
floors, façades and the roof: we check this in the terrace and lattice of the
restaurant or in the curved floor of the lounge that becomes the wall and the
ceiling in the west part.
The
family of components is completed with compacted cellulose panels, cellular
polycarbonate, translucent glass, OSB board and gresite tiling in light blue.

Equipped spaces
Spaces
are generated differently in response to the diverse functions put together in
the building. Each space is specialized by using different materials or
choosing locations, measuring the elements…
The
restaurant is elevated with respect to the road outside, looking for a long
sight over the cars. There are two different accesses: one from the esplanade
for the public and another from the Club for the members. The space is
continuous, illuminated lightly and evenly from the polycarbonate ceiling (that
hides the lamps), and from the glass folding wall that can be completely opened
when thermal conditions allow it. Finally, the kitchen and bar have been
renewed and a set of toilets, independent from the Club’s ones, have been
implemented.
The
offices are re-distributed in the old part of the building which accessibility
is improved by a new communications body. This nucleus is compound by a central
lift and some ramps and stairs around it, which stand out the façade and create
a reception area outside. The main access is situated between this piece and
the restaurant. The skin of the staircase, made of polycarbonate sheets and
expanded metal, provides new facilities: during the day, and from the public
areas it is a opaque body that bocks the undesirable sigh of the parking while inside
it is naturally illuminated. During the night it looks like a lamp that
illuminates the access to welcome us to the Yatch Club.
The
members’ lounge and its extension in a large terrace are both situated in the
best place of the building. A large window is opened towards east, to the best
views of the marina and the Mar Menor,
while the zinc façade protect us from the west and the esplanade. The timber
structure provides extra-height while a soft wood on the floor gives comfort
(even barefoot) in the terrace, and a tough slate floor handle with
celebrations and parties indoors.
A
new external stair provides the access for members to the upper level from the
marina, without passing through the offices.

Surroundings
The
parking area will be organized by painting the International Code Flags on each
park spot. It gives an amusing image to the place and facilitates car
maneuvers.
Outside
the Club, the esplanade will be modified around the building for improving
accesses and creating a plant-line area beside it.
In
the future, the refurbishment of these spaces around and the new sings for the
Club and the restaurant, will complete the external image of the new Yatch Club
of Lo Pagán.