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Integration and Identity are the guiding principles of the project, aiming to create not just a sports facility, but a new piece of the urban landscape. The project's concept is to design a building with interconnected spaces that harmonize with the surrounding environment, especially the landscape. It will not only support the functions of the athletics track but also be an active part of the sports activities itself.
The modeling of the terrain will create a distinctive feature, integrated into the landscape while being unique, which will form the core of the project: the creation of an element that is simultaneously a building, a pathway, and a sports facility.
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The “RING” will be established in the green area to the south of the airport in Reggio Emilia, where the new Parco Campovolo, an expansive 780,000m² green lung, will feature the planting of 25,000 new trees. Over the coming years, this green space will be complemented by additional facilities dedicated to sports and recreational activities. This intervention thus becomes an opportunity for a landscape design that can reinterpret new ways of designing collective spaces and impart landscape quality, functionality, and sustainability to a disused area. Through the design of pathways, ground modeling, and the light and permeable perimeter of the track, a true territorial-scale regeneration work is achieved, conferring a new identity and recognizability to an undefined space.
The building has been designed to achieve the highest energy certification class available in Italy for new constructions (A4). Environmental sustainability will be determined particularly by:
- An efficient building envelope with high performance, also through the use of natural terrain as thermal insulation at zero environmental cost;
- Optimization of the "Building-plant" system to maximize the use of renewable energies, particularly solar energy, for its reuse even during evening hours;
- A water consumption reduction strategy, with the collection of rainwater to fully meet the irrigation needs of the green areas, which form a significant component of the new sports complex.
The project emphasizes seamless integration into the landscape, harmonizing natural and artificial elements to foster a balanced relationship between human constructions and the environment. The building blends with the terrain, with a raised area surrounding it from the side of the railway line. This elevation gradually reveals the structure to approaching visitors, creating a walkable level above the roof that extends into the park's network of paths.
The project explores a novel design theme: creating open spaces for sports. This intervention offers an opportunity for landscape design that enhances collective spaces with landscape quality, functionality, and sustainability. By designing pathways, modeling the ground, and creating a light, permeable track perimeter, the project achieves territorial-scale regeneration, giving a new identity and recognizability to a previously undefined space.
The project will be established in the green area south of the airport, within the new Parco Campovolo. Future additions will include sports and recreational facilities, creating a high-value environmental and ecological area. The athletics ring, compliant with CONI standards and with 8 tracks, creates a strong centrality towards which the other sports areas gravitate: zones equipped for throwing and jumping, for warming-up activities and for cross-country running. A stadium with 1,000 places is located above the covered area for indoor athletics.
"This intervention is part of a broader strategic action to ‘stitch together’ the northern area internally and with the city, creating new meanings and functions ... a premier athletics facility capable of hosting national and international events, ... an urban park system that connects large spaces with different vocations, in some cases reclaimed from degradation … significant for the city's reputation, and fundamental for a future of sustainable growth.” Luca Vecchi mayor of Reggio Emilia.
TECO+ partners is an architectural firm based in Bologna, consisting of 6 partners and a team of 30 collaborators, architects, civil engineers and designers.
The firm designs residential, scholastic and sports buildings and complexes, as well as offices and productive establishments in Italy and abroad.
The environmental quality of projects arises from study and experience of techniques for the use of renewable energies, bio-architecture construction systems, biocompatible materials and passive climate control.
The firm is specialized in to design areas for sport integrating culture, technology, sustainability, inclusion and economy. They are containers of values, emotive dynamics and relationships, they contribute to the enhancement of places and persons, but also places of architectural, structural and semantic experimentation, both for their dimensions and for their location, which makes for dialog and debate with the urban texture and the landscape.
