The coherence of the project idea revolves around the concept of giving a "second life" to a
disused public swimming pool, which was a reference in the area and absorbed a sporting activity and
considerable social value, but it fell into disuse, thus falling into oblivion and a certain decadence.

By carrying out a minimal intervention, the space is enabled to have a new use, boxing, a sport that
has also had a complicated recent past and is now reclaiming itself, awakening a
great interest. These two rebirths, join the regeneration process that the
own city where the project is located, which with the strategy of making the most of its potential,
will have to reinvent itself to adapt to current needs and embrace new challenges
of the future.

At a compositional level, the project seeks maximum simplicity, using as its only element
Constructive IPE beams that, cut and joined in different ways, create the support structure
of the punching bags, the new stairs and the railings necessary to define the space.

The proposal stands out exclusively for the re-reading of the heritage of a post-peripheral scenario.
industrial and the ability to design and execute a work in a collective and participatory manner,

rethinking the use value of an abandoned space.
Fredric Jameson, explained that the lack of a great collective project ends up leading to a
experience lacking depth, in which the past is everywhere and, in a way,
simultaneous, the historical sense dissolves, having a society empty of historicity that at the same time
Time is incapable of presenting anything other than a reheated version of the past.

In this sense, the project is based on the desire to reconfigure the space in an anti-
nostalgic at a compositional level but respectful of the essence of the place, which is defined by the

social interactions that occurred during their early life and that continue to occur in
today.