The enlargement of the Betsaida sport facilities with a new dressing area and stands is a project about commitment and activity within its neighborhood. It stands on the limit of the site of the sports facility and one of the last traces of the preindustrial city of Sant Adrià del Besòs, the Masia of Can Rigalt.
Some of the commitment gets shaped in the decision to create a courtyard in the access to the ensemble. A fence made of concrete block lattice filters the access from the rest of the courtyard.
The front of the changing area faces the sport field on its level. The building becomes border, a thick limit to the courtyard, defined by the program and reacting to the site conditions. Built as a screen of wood and U-glass, the façade is a continuous front, translucent and, at night, lit up to field. Behind it, five changing rooms, the cafeteria and the access area develop a simple functional program. The rear façade, white rendered, is curvedly shaped as a response to the shape of Can Rigalt.
Covering the ensemble, the roof serves also as the new stands for the sports facility, gathering all the hustle and bustle of the spectators. In its rear part, red glazed tiled balconies take the shape of the dressing rooms below, enlarging the stands with a small elevated plaza, a lookout over the Masia of Can Rigalt. This is the place where the younger brothers play with spinning tops while their parents cheer the sporty brothers and sisters down in the field.
The construction of the enlargement is economical, simple, and typical from the local urban periphery. For that reason, the building entrusts its image to its curved geometry, with no show in its finishing. Lattice shadows, reflexes on the curved glazed tiling over a white canvas as a background are enough to achieve the shaping of the site. To shape that limit.