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Todo es Cancha: Border of Recreational and Neighborhood Equipment

Part 2 Project 2017
Sebastián Simonetti Grez
 University of Chile | Chile
The project "Todo es Cancha" approaches from architecture the way of transforming amateur football fields of Santiago (Chile) into public spaces of high density and recreational use. Through a light structure that gives programmatic thickness to the central vacuum, the edge of the field is exploited in surface allowing a diversity of uses that go beyond football and explore activities related to the identity of neighboring communities.

Tutor(s)
Albert Tidy
2017
01. Amateur football, through its architectural typology of the "Cancha de barrio" (neighborhood football field) is a mean of organization and neighborhood identity. Its importance lies in the "Borde de la Cancha" (edge of the field), where the whole neig
02. Part of the 207 football fields of Santiago (Chile) are in the process of abandonment, becoming neighborhood problems. They have closed to its edge with hermetic walls and wasting their programmatic potential. The idea "Todo es Cancha" puts in critici
03. A program is defined that responds to the lack of recreational spaces and equipment. This catalog of 21 platforms allows the implementation of the project in different case studies, where the combination of platforms allows various forms of materializ
04. The 8th Football Field of the Población José María Caro (Lo Espejo, Santiago de Chile), is transformed by a border of recreational and neighborhood equipment. A light structure consolidates the perimeter where the wall is reinterpreted, giving a thick
05. This large-scale device manages temporality through its envelope, controlling the opening and closing of the public space, transforming its possibilities of use and delivering the possibility of seeing from and to the interior.
06. The 21 platforms are distributed in 4 programmatic areas: Flexible equipment, Permanent equipment, Gardens and Children's games.
07. The project aims to reactivate the public space through various parallel activities around football and neighborhood life.
08. The structure consists of steel frames modulated according to the commercial length of the steel, which allows a system of prefabrication and easy installation / disassembly. The base frame varies according to the programmatic requirements.
09. Amateur football in Santiago represents an architectural opportunity to inquire about the activities that can take place around an "unoccupied" ground in a city that exploits each m2.
10. Todo es Cancha Project, 2017
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