Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall

The Sports Hall was designed by Alejandro de la Sota in 1966. Il a été inauguré en juillet 1968 par Juan Antonio Samaranch, délégué national de l'éducation physique et des sports. It was inaugurated in July 1968 by Juan Antonio Samaranch, National Delegate for Physical Education and Sports. A month later, during the celebrations of the Pilgrim Virgin, a concert was organised by Los Bravos, Los Silver Stones, Los Dobles and Karina with Los Pekes.[1]

It is an outstanding example of contemporary Spanish architecture. De la Sota designed the interior of the building as a light-flooded box, with an elegant and delicate structure, which creates a weightless effect of the spatial mesh of the roof. The roof is supported by corbels, balanced like a scale. It has a flat and translucent surface, like a skylight. In 2016, the Pontevedra City Council commissioned the renovation of the pavilion's roof in order to restore the original appearance of the exterior, which had been modified in 1986.[2]

The whole effect was covered with thin panels, which formed the outer volume of the building. The façade is made of large prefabricated reinforced concrete panels assembled on site with minimal thickness. The building shows great subtlety in the design of the timber roof truss and small construction elements such as railings, handrails and parapets.[3]

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  Façade
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  New translucent cover as in 1966
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  Interior of the Sports Hall in 2018
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  Futsal match in 2018
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  Goal

• Aganzo, Carlos (2010). Pontevedra. Ciudades con encanto (in Spanish). Madrid: El País-Aguilar. p. 105. ISBN 978-8403509344.
• López Torre, Rafael (2015): Filgueira Valverde. Crónica de una alcaldía (1959-1968), Concello de Pontevedra, D.L.: PO 314-2015 (es)
• VV.AA.: Arquitectura Moderna en Asturias, Galicia, Castilla y León. Ortodoxia, Márgenes y Transgresiones (1998), C.García Braña y F. Agrasar Quiroga Ed. ISBN 84-85665-31-7