The firm Sordo Madaleno designed a new home, in Zapopan, for one of Mexico’s most long-lived football teams, the Guadalajara-based Atlas F.C. Called Academia Atlas, it serves six professional fields and includes facilities for science applied to sports as well as administrative offices and accommodations for young players.

With locally sourced materials and traditional building techniques, the sports campus is designed around a modular system by which indoor spaces can be transformed and enlarged in accordance with the club’s future needs. Columns and beams establish a grid in an 8,300-square-meter volume, forming routes that read like passageways, courtyards, and small gardens recalling town squares. The red color seen across the project relates to the football team’s identity but also to traditional Mexican brick, combined here with pigmented concrete.