Sports City for the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation. Las Rozas. Madrid.

We thought of sport fields and green spaces with some buildings near them and not of the contrary. The 120.000 m2 plot had strong vegetation and big drops sloping down to a nearby water course. The first thing we tried was to fit in the required four football grounds with the obligatory north – south orientation.

The two public football grounds were placed five meters lower than the two training fields to be adapted to the plot. A linear dressing room building divides the training fields (near the players’ residence) and the spectators’ grounds. There are two entrances: one for the people to reach the public grounds, the covered sports centre and the central office building; another private one to get access to the players’ dressing rooms the sports medicine building and the players’ residence. All the other buildings were situated in the remaining spaces inside the boundaries of the plot.

It is an ensemble that has the appearance of a garden. The green fields and the vegetation sorround the constructions that though they are large blocks are camouflaged within the environements and loose their impact.