In 1979 was recognized the autonomy of the  Catalan region with the adoption of Estatut d'Autonomia de Catalunya; health, education and sport were  recognized as services of Generalidad competence.
In 1980 was founded the Direcció  General de l'Esport and since  1981 become operative the Departamant d'Ensenyament y Cultura. Both this institutions promoted the  construction of equipments, of which the region was lacking, through the elaboration of  technical-sheets useful for the design process.  
The words by Josep  Lluis Mateo, architect of the generation identified by Bohigas, gives  a summary of the issues dealt with.
The political change of the late 1970s was [...] the right time to believe that the age-long breach between culture and local government would be closed so that both sectors could work in harmony. The efforts made in this sense, both by the architects forming part of the government and by those others who, though not part of it, have contributed with their design, began a new era of extraordinary vitality in Catalan architecture. Indeed, when compared with the rest of contemporary architecture in Europe, the present state of Catalan architecture is unique in regard to the amount of output and its wide scope. [...] Our particular contribution in response to this challenge lies in understanding and struggling for architecture as a necessity. \cite{Mateo__1985}
This text,  more than referring to the relationship between administration and  professionals, point-out another crucial issue: the huge amount of constructed  works in a limited temporal span. Eight years  after their establishment, the departments themselves were promoting  exhibitions that popularize the work conducted during this period. Catalogues  of these exhibitions are an essential sources for the research. \cite{AA.VV__1986} \cite{AA.VV__1988} \cite{AA.VV__1988a} \cite{AA.VV__1996}
Between  1980 and 1988 in the Catalan region public institutions had invested in  equipment: public administration drawn-up technical-sheets and a generation of  young architects was called to give shape and form to the public equipment.
3.2.2 Sports  equipment in consolidated city      
Sports facilities are  part of the public equipment family described above: according to Bohigas's  words sports facilities are spot  exemplar, drivers of  regeneration of urban environments where it is possible to recognize a  correspondence between social life and physical structure.    These architectures, set  up with a network of services, could contribute to implement settlement  strategy, that are: reequilibar the  urban and social fabric; generar a  new urban settlement; regenerar a  run-down environment; recuperar an  abandoned building; completar i redefinir  the urban morphology.
In this way a sports  building could become magnificador [12]of the  around environment \cite{Paricio__1992}: consolidated city, Ensanche[13],  surrounding neighborhoods[14], run-down industrial district. The provision of basic  sport-for-all equipment becomes the key theme of a series of urban action that  has to consider a high density and lack of services.
The explosive growth of the sixties produced high-density areas with a lack of services and facilities; the interstitial spaces between neighborhoods remained empty and offer high expectations to achieve urban improvement. \cite{AA.VV__1987}
Within that urban strategy, it is possible to identify  some issues related to the relationship building-city and shape-structure:  re-use of abandoned buildings; insertion in a consolidated context; facing with  existing; construction by section; etc.
3.2.3 Sports pavilion - type unit   
Within the work of the public administration a  dominant theme is the sports pavilion that have to be spread throughout the  Catalan region and not just in Barcelona.
The Direcció General de l'Esport has been working during this eight years to minimally cover the entire region of Catalonia, helping to sport's frames, sort them, regulate them and try to place them in many cases at the level of the best sports structures in Europe regarding its functionality, services, pavements, hygiene, comfort, etc.. \cite{Vilaseca__1988}
This ambitious project sets at the basis three  principles:
In order to achieve this, and therefore the  construction of hall for the practice of sports, in a high architectural  quality at low cost the Direcció General de l’Esport sets a series of  datasheets with the minimum requirements that define a "mòduls tipus"[15].                   
Instead of promoting pre-figured architectural  solutions, the administration decides to follow the line of «case by case»[16] by  entrusting the Sixties generation with the choice of the architectural  solutions.
Even in this case it is possible to recognize some  settlements and architectural theme, among which: relationship with the  context; relationship external paths-internal distribution; relationship type  module-typological experimentation; expressivity of the structural element (capacidad expresiva del hecho estructural);  relationship player space-spectator space; etc.
This themes are objects of the interpretative  re-drawings that are, for this moment, about the Virrey Ama sports pavilion,  built in Barcelona by Manuel Brullet. The file of this re-drawing is part of the annexes.
 
3.2.4 Integrated equipment: sport and education
When Manuel Brullet[17] in L'Arquitectura Escolar a Catalunya i la  seva evolució\cite{Brullet__1986} making the evolution of architecture for schools, presents the last span,  1977-1986, with the title L'escola com a equipament integrat. This  slogan synthesize the way in which school are designed: not only the place of  education but as a cultural and social center for the community living in a  district. Its spaces have to be intended to offer different services during the  all day. For this reason «must be defined  clear architectural spaces, allowing use's change and emphasize the unity and  complexity of cultural relationships.» \cite{Mackay__1986}
Schools became the  core of community in which sport has a double value: for the physical education  of students and as a facilities for the practice of sports-for -all.
Since 1981, with the transition  of educational competences to the Generalidad de Catalunya, there is a huge  experimentation of which the requirement was
to strive to invent solutions, case by case, within a low budgets. The aim was to take advantage, above all, of the creativity of architects to solve each commission in relation with their plot and context, without previous typological solutions. \cite{Montaner__1997}
The perspective of school as an integrated center refer to the relationship  architecture-pedagogy that has a long tradition in the Catalan region. \cite{Bohigas__1997} An  important antecedent is the work carried out between 1976 and 1936 by Comissió  de Cultura[18]. Of this  commission  is part José Goday, architect  of the Grups escolars de Barcelona[3] with  great architectural qualities and coherence between typological-figurative  choices and new pedagogical methods (examples are Escola Ramon Llull, Milà i Fontanals, Collasso i Gil e  l'Escola de Mar). \cite{Ráfols__1959} Just in Escola de Mar Bohigas, in the already mentioned essay La arquitectura deportiva en Cataluña, traces  the origins of Catalan sport tradition. The issue of school building, according this line of work, allows  us to recognize another time some key-themes: functional integration;  relationship building-open air spaces; construction by section; etc.
3.3 CONCLUSION  
In synthesis, the  themes highlighted by the study of the Catalan context could be called back as:
According with this issues, as specified in the  introduction, the Catalan case will be compared with the British and  central-south American Contexts.
The British case, in relation to what just summarized,  seems highly relevant for two aspects:
Concerning the central-south American context I will  refer to the corpus of architectures, which relevance with the research aim has  already been discussed, that are suggestive both for the architectural quality,  both for the functional contamination in which sport is integrated.
For this context I didn't yet define the key-issue for  the comparison with the other context.
Related to the issue came-out from the study of the  Catalan context about functional integration of sports facilities and school  buildings, it seems interesting to establish a limited comparison with the  Swiss educational buildings.
Starting from the words by Manuel Brullet in which he  makes the relationship with this context[19] I assumed to set-up a restricted investigation about the relationship between  architectural and figurative elements and pedagogical methods, that had in  Swiss a long tradition since the well-known work by Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi[20]  to the Fifth International Congress for School Construction and Open-Air  education, organised in Zurich Kunstgewerbemuseum in collaboration with  the Pro Juventute foundation: a private organization dedicated to youth  welfare. 
Footnotes
[1] I worked on this issue in the paper The role of leisure and sport facilities in  contemporary cities. The case of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, presented at  International City Planning and Urban Design Conference, Istanbul, 8/9 April  2016.
[2] Related to the assignment of the  1992 Olympic games, it was being promoted a set of urban fabric renewal  initiatives and had successfully developed the urban environment and its public  spaces.
[3] The Serviço Social do Comércio is a non-profit private institution,  kept by businessmen in the trade of goods, services and tourism. It aimed  primarily for the welfare of their employees and family but open to the general  community.
[4] I refer to the bibliography annexes to the research programe presented at Milestone 02
[5] Sixte Abadia Naudi is professor at  the Universitat Ramon LLull and member of the Grupo de Investigación e Innovación ed Deporte y Sociedad.
[6] The investigation El  Espanol y el deporte: datos de una encuesta conduced in 1975 by ICSA-Gallup  pointed out a lack of facilities for sports claimed by people as a social need
[7] «Parece  evidente, pues, que es preciso mantener los barrios viejos como testimonios y,  a la vez, como lugares operativos para la reconstrucción y rehabilitación de la  ciudad. Rehabilitar [...]quiere decir reencontrar el equilibrio y la  correspondencia entre la vida social y la estructura física.» With this words Oriol Bohigas define the concept of rehabilitar in the text Reconstrucción de Barcelona published in 1985 in which the author describes the  urban strategy that determined the drawing up of the 'Barcelona Model' and its  successful nomination to host the Olympic Games
[8]  «Ja no hi ha en les conurbacions europees una  gran vocació expansionista, sinó una voluntat de  reconstrucció de la ciutat ja construïda.» Bohigas' words talking to Òscar Tusquets about the Barcelona urban strategy. In Diàlegs a Barcelona. Oriol Bohigas - Òscar  Tusquets, Editorial Laia, Barcelona 1986
[9]  Oriol Bohigas is architect founder of MBM arquitectes and coucilor responsible  for town-planning in Barcelona from 1980-1984
[10]  «Actuar-hi [en  l'espai públic] amb la doble intenció de fer-ne un equipament de qualitat i  convertir-lo en un punt de generació de transformacions espontànies. És evident  que quan en un barri degradat o no conformat urbanament hom reconstrueix -o  construeix- un espai públic, aquest actua com un spot exemplar, com motor d'una  regeneració de l'entorn sota la iniciativa dels propis usuaris». Oriol Bohigas  describe the 'regeneration role' given to the public equipment by the public administration. Per  una altra urbanitat, in Plans i  projectes per a Barcelona. 1981/1982
[11] Councilor for Sports and Olympic Games from 1981 to 1995 for the City of Barcelona
[12] This is the definition given by Ignacio Paricio; architect of the Sixties generation. In 1983 founder with Lluis Clotet of their office. They won the FAD prize  (Foment de les Arts  Decoratives) in 1988 for the Simón venue at Canovelles and in1989 for the Banco de España at Girona.
[13]  based on the Plan of the Eixample development in  Barcelona (1859), by Ildefons Cerdà.
[14] among these Sants, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Gràcia, Sant Andreu that were autonomous municipalities until 1897, the year they are merged with the municipality of Barcelona.
[15] The  sheets, still used, are a collection of documents that briefly outline the  typological requirements and regulatory aspects established by the Catalan  Sports Council for the basic network facilities.
[16] Line defined by E. N. Rogers talking about the problem of building inside a pre-existing environment. In Esperienza dell'architettura, Einaudi, Torino, 1958
[17]  Architect of the Sixties generation. architetto della generazione '60. Among his works there is the Virrey Amat sports pavilion built in Barcelona between 1985-1986 and the Escola Ronda Cros, built in Mataró between 1984-1986.
[18]  The  Comisión de Cultura edited in 1922 the book Les construccions escolars de  Barcelona, as a summery of studies, projects and other examples to settle  the problem of  the dimension and the  obsolescence of schools in Barcelona.
[19]  «El model organitzatiu és el de l'escola suïsa, producte de síntesis entre l'escola de planta  central anglesa i l'escola-corredor alemanya».  Manuel Brullet in L'arquitectura escolar  a Catalunya i la seva evolució.           
[20]  Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi (Zurigo 1746, Brugg 1827)