LOHAS Lattice Blocks - Camp del Ferro
The Camp del Ferro sports centre in Barcelona wins the ARCHDAILY Sports Architecture Building of the Year 2022 award. These awards are one of the main international awards in architecture. The team of architects, after weighing the advantages and disadvantages, chose to locate an important part of the sports complex partially underground. The meticulous design of this section of the building ensures good lighting, natural ventilation, ease of access and safe evacuation even in the lower areas.
Two lattice blocks were designed for this project, making it about the recovery of local traditions using materials like ceramics.
Ceramics are very common in old factories, warehouses, workshops, and neighbouring industrial buildings.
The materials used in this work will ensure good aging and long life. To lighten the building on all its facades; the hollows and opaque, translucent and transparent bodies are alternated, using ceramic pieces of different formats and colours.
The ceramic lattices, manufactured by Piera Ecocerámica, encourages cross ventilation and in addition avoiding direct sunlight, contributing to thermal insulation. This being just one of many solutions of this building material used in this project will improve energy efficiency and have led to this new building being qualified with the Leed Gold certification.
A deliberate and intrinsic consequence of the semi-underground part of the building, that houses the Camp del Ferro sports centre, has been the energy and environmental improvements.
On the one hand, as the exposed surface diminishes, the thermal inertia of the whole has increased.
On the other hand, a large part of the surface enjoys controlled natural light, through the large, glazed openings and skylights protected by ceramic lattices and plant species that avoid direct sunlight and glare on the courts.
