Tennis Terraces

GRAS arquitectos realised a tennis center in Mallorca, featuring two floating terraces, white concrete slabs, that work as a viewing platform to watch the tennis games at the centre court.

GRAS arquitectos, Tennis Terraces, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain, 2016
White concrete cantilevered slabs define a new tennis club in the middle of the nature that combines a social building together with tennis courts, a total of 17 courts of all surfaces: grass, clay and hard.

 

The strong natural context defines the concept of the project. The topography of the land demands a terracing strategy in order to place the different courts at different levels following the slope of the hill. The building itself is therefore conceived as a continuation of that terracing: two floating terraces, white concrete slabs, overlooking the tennis compound. By positioning the building at the highest point of the land, it works as the last terrace of the project and as a great viewpoint, balcony to the rest of the plot, specially to the centre court, the heart of the project.

GRAS arquitectos, Tennis Terraces, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain, 2016
GRAS arquitectos, Tennis Terraces, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain, 2016
A series of terraces are carved in the hill to create a natural stone stadium, a sort of “XXI century Greek Epidaurus tennis theatre”.  The stadium can seat up to 1500 spectators. The terraces are built with traditional stone masonry, using solid blocks of a Mallorcan natural stone called Mares. A natural scenario combining the stone and the natural grass is created following the context of the site.
GRAS arquitectos, Tennis Terraces, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain, 2016
GRAS arquitectos, Tennis Terraces, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain, 2016
The clubhouse is designed not just as a social building, but also as a viewing platform to watch the tennis games at the centre court. The building leans out to the court in order to enjoy views from all floors. White exposed concrete slabs cantilevers are created to maximize those views.

Tennis Terraces, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain
Program: clubhouse
Architects: GRAS arquitectos
Design team: Guillermo Reynés, Álvaro Pérez, Mayca Sánchez, Xim Barceló, Marta Wieczorkiewicz and András Papp
Engineer: Andreu Ortiz
Site Manager: Vicente Juan
Builder: EGOS
Area: 1,130 sqm
Completion: 2016

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