To the east Jerez’s urban center, the area for which the Sports Pavilion was designed in 1997 already had several sports installations, as well as others in progress, following a defined layout. During the construction period, they underwent a period of reorganization to be able to accommodate the installations of the World Equestrian Games of 2002. It is in this new context where the building has finally been completed with no significant changes in design.

Four rectangular pieces form a 100 x 100 meter square. Three of them are adjoined and parallel and the fourth perpendicular to the former. The main one, excavated with respect to the level of the access platform, encloses the Arena, while the other three, smaller and placed transversally, are taken up by offices, the lobby and an auxiliary room. An oval with four centers shapes the Arena, designed following the basics of the classic amphitheater with the rows of seats divided into three levels and some variations regarding the traditional stands. In its lower part, a mobile and adjustable seating row brings the audience closer to the center and allows to use the Arena with a transversal orientation, divided into three courts. The middle stand has the greatest capacity and gives the space its rotund character, with seven rows interrupted only at three points by the gangways. Dissociated from the oval’s strict geometry, the upper seating area goes up on pillasters, as an element of transition between the oval space defined by the stands and the concrete and glass cube that covers it.

On the eastern side and linked with the central piece is the auxiliary hall, which houses a sports track – that can be divided – with rows of seats in the middle, as well as a gym, three squash courts and other halls to the north; and on either side of it are the offices and the access, with the areas for representative use and systems.

The concrete in situ shapes the interior of the building, materializing floor, walls and ceiling; the installations, executed before laying the concrete, were inlaid in walls and slabs. The roof, of steel and clad in panels of reinforced cement, delimits the space of access with a 20 meter cantilever. On the southwest facade the roof is pushed into the background allowing a lower scale, that of the offices, to take up the street with a double height quartering and color panels behind the glass. On this side, a layer of water enters the square plan creating a small courtyard that looks towards the south.