Sorec Horse Park Grandstand by Vicky Chan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Competition Category.
GoldLandscape Design· 2020
Sorec Horse Park Grandstand
by Vicky Chan
Client: Avoid Obvious Architects
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Landscape Design Category
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About Sorec Horse Park Grandstand
Sorec Horse Park is a horse racing park with a grandstand in Rabat, Morocco, covering 63,750 square meters. The twisted form of the grandstand was inspired by horse movement and responds to sunlight and views. A repetitive structural system lets the outer skin twist without custom made parts, keeping construction costs reasonable. The perforated skin and the self shaded canopy reduce heat gain and glare. Materials are sourced locally in Morocco. The layout separates guests, visitors and jockeys, while the horse track stays visible from the central green space.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Sorec Horse Park Grandstand is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Sorec Horse Park Grandstand is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Sorec Horse Park Grandstand creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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- Unique Properties
- Natural elements crafted the architecture to create a compact building that connects horse, people and nature. The site is organized to allow people to enjoy horse track as a park while seeing the race in the backdrop. The placement of the building and the car park allow the central green space to be maximized. The circulation separates better, VIP, park visitors and jockey, but places of interests like the presentation round and horse walking path will connect everything together.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 63,750 m2
- Tags
- horse park, landscape, morocco
- Production Technology
- Twisted form is created using repetitive structure. Skylight and view was cut out from the structure to allow sunlight, view and air circulation. Solar sensors are deployed to create multiple lighting zone to save electricity.
- Design Challenge
- The separation of prestige guests, regular guests, horses and jockey is very critical for the operation. Our intent is to create circulation to separate them while leaving out moments for them to appreciate one another. View of horses will be visible in almost all corners so that children to prestige guests will all get the excitement of horse racing.
- Research
- We love into the people of Rabat and understand what sport and horse meant to their culture. Extracting from the local opinion, we designed a family friendly park that allow people to celebrate their Arabic culture of horse. It is filled with greenery, shading, fun and excitement for a family visit.
- Inspiration
- The twisted form was inspired by horse movement but also reacts to the solar condition and view optimization. It is both emotional and scientific. The use of repetitive trust system allow the overall skin to twist without producing custom made items to keep construction cost reasonable. The materials are locally sources in morocco to keep a low carbon footprint while allowing to building to fit nicely into Rabat’s context.
- Project Duration
- Started in March 2019 in Rabat, Morocco
- Operation Flow
- The interior of the space is organized to allow exclusive and inclusive experiences. Vip, Public and Jockey have a clear zoning in section. The canopy is designed to be self shaded so that the grand stand won’t receive glaring condition. The skin is perforated at 5 percent to allow sun light into the space in a dramatic way, while reducing heat gain to its minimum. Natural circulation occurs throughout the ground floor and the circulation cavity to take advantage of the natural breeze coming from the ocean. Smart lighting sensors work with the skin to provide comfortable lighting while reducing energy to its lowest consumption.
- Patents
- © 2019 Avoid Obvious Architects. All rights reserved.
- Team Members
- Vicky Chan
Gianfranco Galagar
Krystal Lung
Wijdene Kaabi
Richard Alomar
Ali Azami
Iliass Abou
El Fath El Fatih
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