Children’s Space Kalorias Montijo

The Children´s Space is one of the less expected functions in a gym. However, to help families – due to long working hours, lack of time and alternatives with whom to leave the children – Kalorias Club provides this service in order to increase the attendance of its members in their new facility in Montijo. Therefore, the Children´s Space turns out to be a “world” on its own, for a very special and demanding public.

Programmatically the space was divided into two areas, one dedicated to manual activities, reading and studies, and one other more suited to the physical activities. This separation is present not only conceptually, but also spatially by the intersection of two perpendicular volumes, separated visually by the means of a diagonal line which color and texture differences, enhances the specificity of the space use.

In the reading area stands out the black tone of the floor and slate wall – which serves as a writing and drawing pad – where next to it furniture was arranged for different age groups. In the leisure area synthetic grass make us imagine how it feels to be in a football field, but also triggers the idea of a mountain, where applied vinyl’s tell us stories and lead the children to arouse their imagination.