Pavilhões Desportivos em Portugal - Contributos para a sua leitura a partir de quatro casos de estudo

Abstract

With the present study about sports hall, we want to understand whether its architecture or its relationship with the city, in a period between the years of 1930 and the present. Comes forward as hypothesis that this type of equipment have been suffered qualitative changes at the level of its design, once during the study period, by way of Community funds in 1986, it has been changed the sports policy and, consequently, the sports park was renovated. For this understanding was confronted, in first place, the national production with some sports structures built abroad. This allowed highlight some analysis parameters for portuguese situations. Although it has been collected extensive information about what was built in the country, there were selected four significant study cases: Pavilhão dos Desportos do Porto - Palácio de Cristal (1951), Pavilhão de Exposições e Desportos de Braga (1987), Pavilhão Multiusos de Gondomar (2007) and the Arena Dragão Caixa (2009). Their study allowed to answer some disciplinary problems, such as the drawing problem of the big span, the arena of its own, the urban insertion and the inherent pathologies to those constructions.