SITUATION: Llano Amarillo, Algeciras, Cádiz. >>Open in GOOGLE MAPS
DATES: project (2024)
CLIENT: Port Authority of Algeciras
ARCHITECTS: José Antonio Carbajal Navarro, Nicolás Carbajal Ballell and Rodrigo Carbajal Ballell
COLLABORATING ARCHITECTS: Fernando Moreno Humanes and Rafael Rus Sánchez
BUILDING SURVEYORS: Jesús Bozzo Fernández de Tirso
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Pedro Lobato Vida
SERVICES ENGINEER: Miguel Sibón Roldán
The project attempts to configure a sports venue whose daily activity is carried out completely normally without disturbing the usual enjoyment of the port promenade by the rest of the citizens.
The new CPA will be built using 40′ and 20′ port containers, organizing them around a operations yard. But beyond this condition, there are other issues that are relevant when justifying the reached solution: on the one hand, the convenience of developing the building on a single floor, given the activities to be carried out; on the other, the need to configure an enclosure, so that the club’s activity does not hinder the use of the port promenade and control of the facility is allowed during closing hours.
The proposed organization places the 40′ containers intended for the storage of kayaks K1, K2 and K4 grouped on the south side and opening their doors directly towards the patio, facing north. Next to them is the one used as a workshop. In front of these, the changing rooms will be arranged as two groups around a chimney for ventilation and light collection resulting from placing a 20′ container in a vertical position.
Thus, each of these groups (male and female) is made up of two 40′ containers for the locker, sink and toilet area and one 20′ container, the one mentioned above that acts as a chimney. This chimney container aims to solve the foreseeable condensation problems in the changing rooms by generating an air draft with natural cross ventilation and making up for the lack of light inside the containers by acting as a skylight in the center of each of these areas. Attached to its back, and in a central position, is the shower area that will be built with deck-type slabs supported between two 40′ containers.
Separating both groups of changing rooms, a 40′ inclined container will allow the inclusion of a staircase leading up to to the roof, which will act as a viewing point.
To close the enclosure, 4 more 20′ containers are proposed, located in the corners, which host warehouses for paddles and life jackets, the office and a reserve room for new needs. Two covered porches with the size equivalent to two more 40′ containers are located between them, as waiting and warming spaces, which will offer a view of cranes and port activity through the Canoeing club.
The patio thus becomes the heart of the building, assuming the organization of circulation, the management and maintenance tasks of the canoes (cleaning, preparation…), the storage of other boats (zodiac) and the daily activities related to the reception and organization of groups, warm-up exercises, etc. This will prevent these activities from invading the promenade and unduly occupying the surrounding public space.