Tossols-Basil Athletics Track

The athletics track lies in a wooded park, in a clearing surrounded by oak trees. Rather than cutting the forest back to fit a standard layout, the Spanish design team adapted the track to the site.

Its loop follows the edge of the clearing and bends where the trees require it. A grove is kept inside the infield, so runners pass between trunks and shade, and the landscape remains whole from above.

The intervention is minimal: the track surface, its edges and a few lighting masts. The result is a sports facility that reads first as a piece of landscape, where training takes place in the forest rather than beside it.