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The project of the new swimming centre in Fano, in province of Pesaro Urbino, is the result of an agreement between the Municipality of Fano and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fano, which financed and implemented the work.

The sports-recreational-rehabilitation project focuses on activities related to swimming and other motor activities connected to the use of water.

A significant part of the building also houses an Outpatient Recovery and Functional Rehabilitation Centre equipped with its own pool for water rehabilitation.

The volumetric composition, defined by the contrast between the volume of the pool hall and the volume articulated on one floor, has as its central node the large atrium, with a view of the pool hall and access to the grandstand for the public, overlooked on one side by the reception and the entrance to the changing rooms, and on the other by the bar and the connection with the health facility.

From the central node is defined the external space identified by the projecting canopy, a projection towards the outside of the space equipped for the bar.

There are three pools in the swimming centre in Fano. The main eight-lane pool has an internal dimension of 21 x 25 m; a smaller 12 x 8 m pool allows for didactic, recreational and motor activities; a smaller 5 x 8 m pool is intended for children’s introductory swimming.

There is also a small gymnasium, two rehabilitation treatment rooms, changing rooms and other ancillary rooms.

The roof of the large pool hall, with a span of about 35 m, is made of glulam beams resting on reinforced concrete pillars and is sloping towards the south so as to optimise the positioning of the photovoltaic panels.

From left, construction plan and view of the rehabilitation pool.

The pool hall has an envelope made of insulated panels and an external finish of gold-coloured expanded metal sheets. The openings, with aluminium profiles and double-glazing thick enough to guarantee the required levels of insulation and the necessary safety conditions, modulated the space, characterizing it with this alternation of empty and full spaces to create a play of light and shadow.

The compositional aspects of the project of the swimming centre in Fano took the bioclimatic function into account as the shape of the building and the materials constituting the envelope characterized its architecture.

The correlation of the spaces, the functionality of the interiors, the use of glulam load-bearing structures and the finishing materials contributed to identifying a building that is well integrated with its surroundings.