Swim at 2000m with the construction of the new swimming pool for the city Sestriere.
The inauguration of the new municipal swimming complex Sestriere is an additional sport service offered for the winter resort in Piedmont. The new opportunity presented by the new plant built by the City Council, integrates strongly with other sporting options for the preparation of athletes at high altitude, as well as forming a trend of tourist activities combined with snow-water.
The new swimming facility, type "summer winter", consists of a internal pool for waterfitness connected with a channel "summer-winter" to the outer and variable-shaped outdoor pool with 4 lanes regulations of 25 meters, large solarium with perimeter protection windproof. The type of multi-purpose tanks, allows you to perform various swimming activities and aquatic addressed to all users of the fitness in the water, not only for the tourists who frequent the resort of Sestriere in the winter and summer seasons.
The structure of the tub, considered the temperature changes in altitude, it has been realized with prefabricated solution in panels of stainless steel hot rolled with self-supporting structure constituted by buttresses in galvanized steel. The main accessories are made by removable headwalls, spotlights night, the area with Jacuzzi and elevator for disabled, swim equipment and specific furniture.
The solution morphological and environmental project, was not totally taken for granted the original idea is that of a building with a shape that recalls the shape of huts and mountain stations, with the combination of traditional and modern materials, such as concrete-stone laminated wood glass metal, copper, discounted for both the environment in which you place both for specific functions.
The external form is determined by the only pitched roof, by the big mirror glass front oriented to Valle Argentera, the beach area perimeter is stretched in that direction which follows the course of the slope and orientation. The building consists of a building with two floors where there are the general services: at the basement there is the dressing rooms and services with the infirmary, on the first floor the entrance hall, the local coffee shop located on the mezzanine floor and finally the space fitness and saunas; the basement are located the technical areas of water treatment and the substation with heat exchangers (as the entire system is served by the district heating network), while the local air treatment is covered place in the body adjacent to the main structure.
The internal distribution is guaranteed by the vertical scales in hydraulic elevator. Access is through an entrance located in the block next to the building on the ground floor, where the reception office management. The entire building is designed with devices for the elimination of architectural barriers, because, this being a significant difference in height, the construction of ramps would have been not a good solution.
