The Grandstand

The multi-storey grandstand

The buildings, that have a linear development of over 100 meters, a height of around 20 meters at the edge of the coverage, develop on four storeys and have covered walking surfaces of around 12000 mq, including the staircases. The project is inspired to the most recent developments that this typology of sporting facilities had in the international sphere, especially in Japan, Australia, United States and in the Emirates, where the racecourses equipped with pleasant and ample grandstands realised with terraces, instead of the traditional stands are dominating, since they grant more mobility to the public and a wider and more enjoyable offer of recreational and reception services in function of the spectacular peculiarity of the horse sports.

The South prospect is the most representative one, being the face of the building that introduces the grandstand and welcomes the public; the great central septum in concrete, with the racecourse logo and the clock, gives an architectural form to the civic inspiration, edged by glass windows and by pure volumes that structure the façade, as the glass stair towers to the borders, the great rectangular eye at the second floor of the West building, the cantilever bridge of the third floor of the East building and the cantilever crowning moulding, that closes the prospectus favouring its horizontal development.

The ground plain of the complex has the following functional destinations. The West building, contains all the services for the sport show and for the presentation to the public of the protagonists of the sporting events: locker rooms, restrooms for jockeys and lady riders, the balance room visible by the public from the glass windows, staff offices. All these environments are interdicted to the public, that is accommodated in an ample cafe and in a series of nearby betting halls. The East building welcomes the public in an ample opened gallery, equipped with betting points and counters and with a maxi screen for the vision of the races carried out in all Italian racecourses. Staircases and two elevators are at the public disposal to reach the upper storeys.

The first floor

The first floor of the building contains, toward South, the administrative and technical offices of the racecourse (video broadcasting, tote, data processing centre, etc.). The remaining part of the storey has an ample public terrace connected in quota with the stand, equipped with over 1500 numbered seats, in thermoplastic. The terrace can be reached from the stand through four ample staircases that depart from the parterre and is equipped with cafes, restrooms and maxi screen.

The second floor

Hosts the most important services for the public reception. Here there are the panoramic restaurant and a cafeteria, with ample terraced rooms (on two levels) with integral view on the tracks through a glass window on the whole North side.

The third floor

Hosts, to the West, two ample and pleasant rooms, entirely glass windowed on the front toward the tracks and with big transparent glasses also on the South front. The use of these rooms changes in relation with the racing days. During the racing days the great room, more to the East, works as club-house, a sort of honour grandstand reserved to the members and to a selected public, with access from the room at the West, that acts as foyer of the great room and as entertaining room, equipped with wardrobe and with a cafe. When there aren’t races, the two rooms can be used for various purposes: conferences, meetings, receptions etc. There are furthermore three technical rooms, in a raised attic, where the photo finish, the commissioners and the press room are located. The East part is occupied, instead, by an overlooking terrace totally opened toward the tracks, but covered by the main staircases coverage, who also acts alternatively as terrace for the race goers (equipped with cafe and wardrobe) and as foyer for the great room.