An open auditorium in old «feria del campo» in Madrid/Spain

Abstract

This work describes the stage and the complementary services carried out for the conditionning of the courtyard for expositions inside the «Feria del Campo» in Madrid, as a ground for Pop concerts and other multitudinous entertainments. Its study awakes interest, not only by the newness of its construction but also by its technology, the lasting of execution as well as the peculiarity of its extreme conditions: a pillar of the huge and sophisticated contemporary tecnologies of communication. It stands out among the peculiarities that characterize it: - The solution for the entrance and exit of the public so as for the loading and unloading of the goods that makes cecassary the acommodation of the surroundings: modification and construction of pavillions and adjoined service buildings and gardens. - The size of the constructive elements, which have been the object of a careful study, and the modification of the project along the search of the wellknown optimums: functionalism, economy, laying out simpleness: a clear span beam of 75 m. - The setting up process, that needed an operative modulation of the parts, needed at the same time independent constructive elements.