The Olympic Baseball Stadium was part of the construction for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, so it had to transcend the local character, and at the same time become a work to promote an urban renewal of Barcelona.
The project faced the location of the building in a complex context due to urban conditions and the nature of the assignment: it had been located in an open field next to L'Hospitalet, surrounded by large blocks of social housing, a nursing home and the Ciutat Sanitària de Bellvitge. It was a peripheral vague terrain that posed few conditions to establish a dialogue between the stadium and the existing buildings, and it had to be the international stage for the celebration of the first meeting of baseball as an Olympic sport.
The design was based on the development of the building as a form capable of restructuring the site while creating the specific conditions to accommodate 8,000 spectators, starting from the traditional floor plan of a minor league baseball stadium. The apex of the V-shaped field is in direct alignment with the corner and the main entrance to the building, while on the margins of both arms the tribunes that make up the external façade rise.
A fundamental factor of the project was that the architectural language did not mask the technological aspect, that the expressive capabilities of the material were revealed in all their dimensions, consequently refusing to resort to any superfluous ostentation. Thus, it was decided to use prefabricated concrete and a metal cover for the stands.
The order also involved the development of the so-called 'Olympic Island', which was to include a series of facilities such as football and rugby pitches, a sports complex, a swimming pool and a hotel. Except for the last two, all these spaces were built to consolidate the place as a sports centre open to residents.
