Palazzetto dello Sport

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Palazzetto dello Sport (2013)

The Palazzetto dello Sport (small sports palace) was built in 1956/57 as a sports hall for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome according to plans by the civil engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and the architect Annibale Vitellozzi . It was built in the Flaminio district around the same time as the neighboring Stadio Flaminio , for which Nervi was also responsible. The audience capacity is a maximum of 5,000, depending on the sport.

Characteristic of the hangars Nervis are the cantilevered coupling with its visible at the bottom rib structures. The dome of the Palazzetto dello Sport has a diameter of 60 meters and a height above the playing field of around 21 meters. It was assembled from 1620 prefabricated reinforced concrete elements with a wall thickness of 2.5 cm in just 30 days . The elements in the form of flat boxes have a slightly protruding edge all around, which forms the ribs when folded on the frame . The reinforcements are installed in the ribs and the dome is then cast directly into a rigid, self-supporting dome shell without the need for complex formwork . The load of the dome is transferred via inclined Y-beams into the ring-shaped foundation made of prestressed concrete .

The actual sports hall is surrounded by a ring of adjoining rooms, in which service and storage rooms as well as a caretaker's apartment were housed. The hall is illuminated by a surrounding glass curtain wall above the grandstands .

At the Olympic Games in 1960, the weightlifting competitions and part of the basketball tournament were held in the Palazzetto dello Sport . Immediately after the Olympic Games, the hall was used for the 1960 Summer Paralympics . The closing ceremony of the Paralympics took place here on September 25, 1960.

The Palazzetto dello Sport is the home ground of the two Roman clubs M. Roma Volley and Pallacanestro Virtus Roma .

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  • Pier Luigi Nervi: New structures. Verlag Gerhard Hatje , Stuttgart 1963, pp. 32-39.
  • Peter Marti, Orlando Monsch, Birgit Schilling ( eds .): Ingenieur-Betonbau. vdf Hochschulverlag at the ETH Zurich , Zurich 2005, pp. 106–107, 176–177 (= volume 7 of the publication series of the Society for Civil Engineering and catalog of an exhibition at the ETH, 2003), ISBN 3-7281-2999-2 .
  • Christian Schönwetter: Roman ruins. Neri's “Small Sports Palace” in Rome is crumbling. In: Metamorphosis . Build in stock. No. 4, 2011, pp. 66-67.
  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 46.8 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 14.7"  E