A building for football. The Mapei Football Center in Sassuolo, Italy, is a training facility for a Serie A football team in a small city on the Via Aemilia. A building as long as a football field stands between the playing grounds. The compact and stepped volume hosts spaces for the public, facilities for various teams and the administration o ces. A concrete roof covers a stand for the public watching the games, with the long building as a background. Although the building is dedicated to sporting activities and stands alone in its ambiguous monumental appearance, it is nevertheless closely linked to the archetypal forms that punctuate the flatland landscape—churches, barns, brick and ceramic furnaces—both in formal terms as well as its spatial positioning. The formal restraint and the structural character of the building invite a reappraisal of the perceived ideas about football, whether performative, scenographic or decadent, leading to a di erent kind of realism and a new understanding of simplicity. This publication introduces the building for the first time. In extensive texts, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, John Foot and the architects Giancarlo Floridi and Angelo Lunati describe the concept as well as the content-related and cultural aspects of this new building for football. The building is portrayed in a photographic essay by Stefano Graziani, complemented by a series of images by Filippo Romano. Layout drawings and construction details complete the overview.

CORNER KICK, Mapei Football Center, Sassuolo Park Books-Zurich

G. FLORIDI;A. LUNATI
2022-01-01

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A building for football. The Mapei Football Center in Sassuolo, Italy, is a training facility for a Serie A football team in a small city on the Via Aemilia. A building as long as a football field stands between the playing grounds. The compact and stepped volume hosts spaces for the public, facilities for various teams and the administration o ces. A concrete roof covers a stand for the public watching the games, with the long building as a background. Although the building is dedicated to sporting activities and stands alone in its ambiguous monumental appearance, it is nevertheless closely linked to the archetypal forms that punctuate the flatland landscape—churches, barns, brick and ceramic furnaces—both in formal terms as well as its spatial positioning. The formal restraint and the structural character of the building invite a reappraisal of the perceived ideas about football, whether performative, scenographic or decadent, leading to a di erent kind of realism and a new understanding of simplicity. This publication introduces the building for the first time. In extensive texts, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, John Foot and the architects Giancarlo Floridi and Angelo Lunati describe the concept as well as the content-related and cultural aspects of this new building for football. The building is portrayed in a photographic essay by Stefano Graziani, complemented by a series of images by Filippo Romano. Layout drawings and construction details complete the overview.
2022
Park Books Zentral
9783038603108
landscape, architecture, durability, hybrid, atmosphere
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