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Elda, Alicante, Spain

3D Athletics Track

IOC / IAKS 2011 Awards : Silver Medal and Accesibility Distinction. A Parametric 3D building, designed entirely in Grasshopper.

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Designing an athletic track could get you as bored as when you are running on it: curve, straight, curve, straight, again and again…

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Perfectly standardized, sport architecture has become more universal than international style. Track length of 400 m, 36.5 m radious. 1.22 m each lane….just data, without any fissure to let your imagination soar.

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We have added to the conventional track an alternative one, amateur and funny, raised and tree-dimensional. It goes off on a tangent, covers the changing rooms and returns to the coventional track.

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As new ways are available for athletes, spectators get involved in the sport activity, seated in-between this two tracks. This is our tribute to all the sport pioners that created new ways of performing that later others followed. Tom Burke, Dick Fosbury, Graeme Obree…

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