Murocrossfit Gym
Nowadays, the complexity and the speed of our daily life, with increasing working hours and shrinkage of free time, have taken the spaces of collective exercise to a new level of protagonist. In this spaces, one can figure the actual blurred definitions of leisure and idleness.
Photography by © José Campos
With the increasingly sedentary lifestyle, a series of common movements like jumping, running or squatting disappeared from everyday life. CrossFit seeks a pragmatic recreation of these old habits and a greater efficiency between time spent working out and fitness level. During the workout, there is always a balance   between moments of great physical intensity and moments of resting and relaxing.
Muro crossfit, the gym that occupied this vacant clothing factory situated in the historical centre of Guimarães, demanded an intervention influenced by the dichotomy between a desire, necessarily functional and rational of preparing a space to workout and the intention of providing moments of leisure and idleness for those who visit the place on a regular basis. Photography by © José Campos
In this project, with limited resources, the need to keep the existing locker room spaces and comply with the mandatory fireproof area near the entrance, dictated the built areas, while the remaining vacant space between the volumes became two workout arenas.
The new materiality was defined according to the existent resources and the new demanded needs: on the walls, ...