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Spluga Climbing Gym
Spluga Climbing Gym
Campodolcino, Italy
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Spluga Climbing Gym
Campodolcino, Italy
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
The project works in terms of landscape with a focus on planimetric and volumetric configuration. In terms of area, it is a small-scale intervention that builds with its surroundings, rock, woods and trees, a series of important relationships and references. There is a strong figure-background relationship that is established between the project and the surrounding forest. The volume is composed of a series of sloping facades of different sizes; this plan configuration encourages a lateral perception of the volume, which is always partially perceived. The approach to the volume from the existing access roads also emphasizes this lateral view. The combination of the polygonal plan and section with the sloping roof result in a volume resembling a rocky outcrop. A large boulder rising vertically. Some tall trees, close to the project building, are to be considered the element on which to measure, by comparison, the height of the new volume. The perception will vary over the seasons; some of these plants will be given the plant apparatus that will emphasize even more the relationship between building and the mass of the natural element. A small building with a disruptive nature, in which the simple construction (with the finishing works almost non-existent) becomes architecture; a timeless building that uses its material to express itself within its context, calling to mind mighty buildings, rock walls and stated geometries.
The building is made entirely of pigmented concrete cast in place according to five shots, each emphasized by horizontal stringcourses. The basement is entirely coplanar, while the upper levels are characterized by a geometric interplay of vertically staggered breakthroughs of different depths and widths.
The concrete pigmented and treated with different degrees of sandblasting takes on a metamorphic character, changing color depending on the times of day and surrounding weather conditions. Toward the north, through a convex angle, the building manifests itself in an imposing and vigorous manner, bringing the eye and mind of the observer back to a large and insurmountable rock face.
The forest, with its trunks towering above ground level, constitutes by analogy the pivotal concept by which the surfaces of the monolith are characterized and enlivened.
The monolith, through the heterogeneous “in-out” movements of the surfaces and the different degrees of sandblasting of the concrete, takes on sculptural characteristics. Here and there, small clear and reflective square-shaped metal elements, like quartzes within a boulder, embellish the building. Toward the south, the block's one and only large windowed opening emerges; in addition to flooding the interior of the structure with light, this takes on the characteristics of a large reflector that marks the passage of time and the unpredictable change in the colors of the sky
The building is made entirely of pigmented concrete cast in place according to five shots, each emphasized by horizontal stringcourses. The basement is entirely coplanar, while the upper levels are characterized by a geometric interplay of vertically staggered breakthroughs of different depths and widths.
The concrete pigmented and treated with different degrees of sandblasting takes on a metamorphic character, changing color depending on the times of day and surrounding weather conditions. Toward the north, through a convex angle, the building manifests itself in an imposing and vigorous manner, bringing the eye and mind of the observer back to a large and insurmountable rock face.
The forest, with its trunks towering above ground level, constitutes by analogy the pivotal concept by which the surfaces of the monolith are characterized and enlivened.
The monolith, through the heterogeneous “in-out” movements of the surfaces and the different degrees of sandblasting of the concrete, takes on sculptural characteristics. Here and there, small clear and reflective square-shaped metal elements, like quartzes within a boulder, embellish the building. Toward the south, the block's one and only large windowed opening emerges; in addition to flooding the interior of the structure with light, this takes on the characteristics of a large reflector that marks the passage of time and the unpredictable change in the colors of the sky
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