Centro Insular de Tenerife Athletics by Artengo Felipe, Fernando Menis, José Maria Rodriguez Pastrana

In the district of Tinca, located on the outskirts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, close to the boundaries that define the mountains and the highway lies the new Centro Insular de Tenerife Athletics, a project of monumental scale, reflects the volcanic source formalization of a crater whose sides are set by the weight of the cyclopean volcanic rocks that cover to set an image reminiscent of a pyroclastic cone.

Through a unified proposal and unequivocal, it resolves a program that integrates different applications, under a unifying stone mantle. At the same time, the performance claims its iconic value for its size, while minimizing impact to the environment. The crater provides a new public space outside large irregular basalt stone finish, from establishing a visual relationship with the Atlantic Ocean. Inside develop various facilities including a high performance center, a gym, locker rooms, warm-up track, press room, and a screening room and conference open to the indoor space via a movable partitions, with up to 200 people.

The athletics track is situated at an elevation intermediate slope of the plot, so that the new topography generated movements are compensated for land excavation and embankment.
The stands with capacity for 4000 spectators are blurred on the edges of the plot where the twin natural and artificial.

The basaltic volcanic rock emerges as star of the proposal, which is extracted from the stone itself, the going to give rise to such great shape stone embankments of the trade winds protect the athlete in the sport.
The large gap open which generated the “indoor space” under roof, has determined the extraction of large amounts of basalt that was enough for reuse in different building units.

The slopes surrounding the sports center, which formalize the volcanic cone has been executed with the mechanical incorporation of bowling stone from the excavation, which are placed in mass concrete with steeper areas, and the outer face of wall, coming inside to run as dry stone walls. In the interstices between stones are filled with topsoil to promote growth of native flora on the slopes.
In the area of ​​greatest difference in elevation with the surrounding terrain, taking advantage of this higher slope, to make it habitable and locate where the residential area for athletes up to 12 apartments and 48 athletes.

Outside the coastal be used that have resulted from the very hard to cut volcanic rock excavation, which is then used in the square and surrounding environment to the stadium. These coastal stone will continue to own stone slopes that image setting unit all part of the volcanic cone.