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Elite Equestrian Center
Elite Equestrian Center
Navarre, Navarre, Spain
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Elite Equestrian Center
Navarre, Navarre, Spain
Project Featured on Mar 27, 2015
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The plot is in the middle of one of northern Navarre's most humid valleys. A valley of gentle but sturdy hills, where green fields and oak trees create a landscape of strong character, whose color changes with the seasons. A valley dotted with a system of small, closely-woven urban cores, configured in a seemingly random way. The buildings consist of large unitary and isolated volumes that seem to touch, but that in truth compete with one another to show their bold architectural character. A boldness that draws on climate conditions, but also on the region's production system - stockbreeding -, which in past times forced people and animals into one same house. A boldness particularly evident in the roof, whose role is to bring together all the different contents. The boldness, in the end, of 'Navarre's buildings'.
The idea of clarity and the strong architectural presence of nearby buildings guided the project design from the very beginning. The proposal was inspired by a desire to establish a relationship with the context through an exact, clear-cut volume. The mixture of scales, the way of playing with them and of making them interact, the need to juxtapose stalls and training facilities with domestic spaces, together justify the principal decision to gather all uses, independently of their sizes, in single whole volumes; a strategy also coherent with the aforementioned idea of clarity and boldness.
Materials play an important role. The usual tense plastered white-painted walls of the neighboring houses and cattle farm sheds are replaced here with steel sheets. Combining these with oak wood creates an expressive result.
The landscaping project basically follows the guidelines of the valley's plot divisions. Lines of oak trees divide the plots, configuring elongated prairies that more or less follow a perpendicular line towards the Ultzama River.
The idea of clarity and the strong architectural presence of nearby buildings guided the project design from the very beginning. The proposal was inspired by a desire to establish a relationship with the context through an exact, clear-cut volume. The mixture of scales, the way of playing with them and of making them interact, the need to juxtapose stalls and training facilities with domestic spaces, together justify the principal decision to gather all uses, independently of their sizes, in single whole volumes; a strategy also coherent with the aforementioned idea of clarity and boldness.
Materials play an important role. The usual tense plastered white-painted walls of the neighboring houses and cattle farm sheds are replaced here with steel sheets. Combining these with oak wood creates an expressive result.
The landscaping project basically follows the guidelines of the valley's plot divisions. Lines of oak trees divide the plots, configuring elongated prairies that more or less follow a perpendicular line towards the Ultzama River.
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