Sports Hall Design | Podčetrtek Sports Hall | Podčetrtek | Slovenia | Enota

The municipal sports hall is located at the main road to Podčetrtek near Terme Olimia spa resort. It is located
directly by the road, behind the existing roadside dyke.
The main entrance itself is facing the road and is accessible via a connecting path between two driveways
at the extreme points of the dyke. Due to its size, which greatly exceeds the outlay of traditional constructions, it is impossible to look for similarities with indigenous surrounding architecture,but it seems logical to seek the design resemblances with larger facilities of the thermal complex. Especially the Termalija building, which is also located directly by the regional road. A specific dialogue is established between the two facilities. Termalija on one hand appears empty, light and colorful - almost playful, the municipal sports center on the other hand acts rather serious - as a full, heavy, monolithic structure.
Its incidence is, to some extent, connected with the role and purpose it aspires to have in the city. Podčetrtek is a small town, and the new sports hall represents the single local indoor venue. Although primarily intended for sports activities, the main municipal hall will be also used for cultural events with larger number of visitors. It is this dual role that defines the platform for the specific design of the building. Its primary design element is a "red carpet", which leads visitors to the events in the building. The pathway that connects both driveways on
the two extreme points is carved into the existing dyke........more

Football Stadium and Multipurpose Sports Hall Stožice | Ljubljana | Slovenia | Sagar Vuga

The Sports Park Stožice is a hybrid project. Its implementation is the result of the public-private partnership between the City of Ljubljana and the Grep development company. The Sports Park Stožice integrates a football stadium and a multi-purpose sports hall with a big shopping centre, covered by the artificial landscape of the recreational park. As a result 182,000sqm Sports Park Stožice becomes one of the major focal points of Ljubljana's urban life, attracting people of dif ferent interests and generation both during the daytime and in the evenings.......more

Sports Pavilion | Rotterdam | MoederscheimMoonen

MoederscheimMoonen was given the task to design a building with a pavilion-like appearance. Located between the airport, new homes and the park , it has to be a striking design with lightness and transparency were the two important elements.
The design stems from a dichotomy in the brief. The changing facilities and storage rooms on the ground floor and the canteen, including board rooms on the floor. The canteen is  located on the floor around it which creates a beautiful view over the five sports fields.........more

Sports Centre Design | Shanghai Oriental Sports Center | Shenzhen | China | GMP Architekten

The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (SOSC) was built on industrial brownfield land along the Huangpu River as a venue for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships in 2011. It consists of a swimming stadium, a sports stadium, an outdoor swimming pool for outdoor high-diving competitions, and a media center.........more

Sports Hall Design | Paide Sports Hall | Paide | Estonia | Salto

Paide Sports Hall is connected to the existing school complex, yet differentiates from its successive building blocks as an independent object, thus activating the schoolyard and giving it new uses. Setting a large-scale building into the schoolyard, human scale has been taken into consideration as much as possible. Lowering the edges of the hall and overall facet-like shape serve to visually reduce the bulk of the building. The building‘s position on the plot is slightly shifted to enable interesting views from all sides.........more

Gymnasium Design | Krems | Austria | Caramel

Task of converting two lengthwise adjacent, 46-meter long gymnasiums into a fully functional triple gymnasium was to be quite a structural engineering feat.
The engineering firm accomplished this using only a 1.8-meter-high prestressed reinforced steel girder that absorbs the loads of both the existing gyms and the newly built extension. in keeping with the strict budget but also with the intention of clearly articulating the newly built addition as such, a light frame construction method with a high degree of prefabricated components was chosen.

Mere 16-cm-thin reinforced concrete ribs support prefabricated wooden panels; standard synthetic domes arranged in a seemingly random order provide lighting and a view of the outside.

Like a bulge in the ground the gym rises as a hull; no differentiation is made between roof and wall; the two fully glazed narrow sides, in a sense, remain open.........more

Sports Hall Design | Estonian University of Life Sciences | Tartu | Estonia | Salto

In addition to solving the simple functional program, designing a new sports hall for the Estonian University of Life Sciences also implied considering some urban issues. The building and its landscaping tries to integrate and organize the scattered campus of the university that has developed over time without no particular coherent plan. In addition, the roadside location on the very verge of the city makes the sports hall something of an entrance mark. Due to its location, one of the considerations was that one should be able to grasp the basic design idea at the first glimpse, upon driving by.

As a solution, all corners of the cubic volume are slightly stretched, and elevated ground forms a “cushion” for the slightly entrenched building. This facilitates integrating the building with landscape and lightens its overall appearance. Undulating forms continuing towards the riverside encompass outdoor sports grounds and bicycle paths. The stretched-out corners create concave lines both in plan and elevation, creating unconventional spaces inside and varying optical effects outside........more

Sports Center Design | Brampton Soccer Center | Brampton | Ontario | MJMArchitects

The Brampton Soccer Centre was designed as a prototype building for a 3 project expansion program of major recreation centres for the City of Brampton. This 152,000 square foot facility is designed for complete program flexibility. The complex will house 4 field-house arenas with stadium style viewing and a community hall wing. The project is designed to be easily convertible from a "warm" facility to a "cold" ice pad complex if needs change in the future. The building is integrated with a master planned, 11 hectare, outdoor sports field complex that includes 4 soccer, 2 basketball and 2 cricket fields, as well as a community Activity Plaza including a Splash pad and Playgrounds...............more

Sports Center Design | Turin | Italy | Designed By Mario Bellini

The Sport Centre is located on the north side of the park and it is part of the Torino Cultural Centre project. The design of the new garden along the area of the pre-existing la Marmora barracks it is structural element of the general project, and together with the Library and the Sport Centre rebuild the urban contest connection in this part of the city.
The Sport Centre redesign an existing complex and will represent the symbol of the recreation activity inside the new garden, the shape of the building ironically remind to a mercantile navy.
The upper deck walkways leaned at the high of the tribune will serve as a crossing way through the complex without interfere with the normal activity happening and together increase the possibility to experience the park view.............more

Sports Centre | CIT Turin | Turin | Italy | Mario Bellini

The Sport Centre is located on the north side of the park and it is part of the Torino Cultural Centre project. The design of the new garden along the area of the pre-existing la Marmora barracks it is structural element of the general project, and together with the Library and the Sport Centre rebuild the urban contest connection in this part of the city.
The Sport Centre redesign an existing complex and will represent the symbol of the recreation activity inside the new garden, the shape of the building ironically remind to a mercantile navy.
The upper deck walkways leaned at the high of the tribune will serve as a crossing way through the complex without interfere with the normal activity happening and together increase the possibility to experience the park view................more

Ulker Arena / Alpella Youth City Istanbul | Turkey | DDG

A proposed LEED certified sports, lifestyle and entertainment development comprising of a multi-use arena, shopping, hotel, parking, offices, cinemas and theater uses focused around an interactive multimedia events plaza. The 620,000 sf/57,000sm development will open in 2010......more

Saint Kentigern School Jubilee Sports Centre | Auckland | New Zealand | Architectus

After completing the Master Plan for the future development of Saint Kentigern School, Architectus was selected to undertake the first project to be commissioned from the Master Plan, the new Jubilee Sports Centre. Sporting, cultural and communal activities had previously been accommodated in the Assembly Hall. The brief called for a the new multi purpose sports facility to include a gymnasium sized to accommodate national-level indoor sports, two teaching spaces, a sports pavilion, associated storage and changing, an all-weather sports surface for tennis and hockey and landscaped car parking. The project was to be completed for the School's Jubilee in 2009........more

Lancashire County Cricket Club | BDP

A 20ha regeneration strategy around the ground. Radical re-development of Old Trafford cricket ground, set to transform the historic venue into one of the country’s premier sporting destinations.
The Point’ floats dramatically over new spectator seating, creating spectacular views over the pitch and to the Pennines beyond.

The orientation of the wicket will change, for the first time in 150 years, from east/west to north/south to resolve sunlight issues which have affected players.....more

Aarhus Gymnastics and Trampoline Hall | Denmark | C. F Møller Architects

In 2010, the children of Aarhus, Denmark, were given a unique hall to romp in, designed by C. F Møller Architects. Watch a short film about The Motor Skills Hall, which combines the best of the sports hall and playground. The film has been shot by one of the main sponsors, the Danish foundation Lokale- og Anlægsfonden. The idea of the augment, which is an extension of the Aarhus Gymnastics and Trampoline Hall, has been to design a hall which motivates the 3-10-year-olds to practise movement.

According to the film, as well as interviews with young gymnasts in the magazine Tribune published by the foundation, it works.

Constantly experiencing new things
"This is fantastic, really amazing. We constantly experience and try new things. In an hour you know the old trampoline hall inside out. In here, you can try all the gymnastic equipment in new ways over and over again," says gymnast Laura Nicholajsen in the article.

"It's a really nice place with beautiful colors and shapes, and it is wonderful that you also have the possibility to do gymnastics just for the fun of it," states her friend Lærke Bøje.

The foundation, supporting innovative sports facilities and cultural buildings, has funded one third of the total costs of The Motor Skills Hall, i.e. 18.3 million DKK.......more

LMN Architects | ShoWare Center | Kent Washington

Seattle-based LMN Architects’ scheme for the 154,400-square-foot multiuse ShoWare Center (the ice sheet can be covered and the seating reconfigured for concerts) choreographs that time between getting out of your car and arriving at your seat. “We analyzed all the architectural elements according to how they create the complete sequence, and how they culminate in the overall dramatic experience,” says LMN design partner Mark Reddington. “That experience starts when you see the building. It extends into the community, even to those who aren’t going to the event.”

Indeed, the atmosphere is electric, literally. Green lines painted on the ground and trimmed with LEDs radiate out from the glazed public concourse into the parking lot, serving as paths to the building’s entrance. Spectators are greeted by a large sloping mirrored stainless steel soffit, which reflects everything from fans to supergraphics, making even a half-full house seem dizzyingly energetic......more at architectmagazine

Sports Hall-Knin Square in Zagreb-Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design

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Urban structure on an existing square designed to create inumerable urban activities and interactions.
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Indoor Golf Arena- The World's Largest Indoor Golf Centre-Zwarts & Jansma Architects

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Design:

2007 | 2010

Client:

Indoor Golf Project

Indoor Golf Arena's facilities will amongst others include 14.000 m2 training facilities on synthetic grass, 20 state-of-the-art golf simulators and a rooftop driving range with 34 bays.

Design Ideas-Sport plaza Mercator,Amsterdam | VenhoevenCS

The Baarsjes in Amsterdam is a multicultural area where people from 129 different countries. The city wanted the life of the community in this area a new impetus. They therefore opted for a building of swimming pools, a therapiebad, fitness, aerobics, sauna and steam room, ballroom, caf, and childcare in a fast food restaurant was approved. Each component draws other groups so that the entire population uses. Inside, everyone has a view of other activities, which entices people to other facilities to use. Because the building in a park was built, at the request of residents in the area covered fully implemented.

With its green walls and roof Sportplaza Mercator is the beginning and end of the Rembrandtpark. Distance seen looks like a overgrown fortification that the entrance to the 19th century city back on it and protects. The glass facade glistening a contemporary term complex with swimming pools, fitness, party and hospitality venues. The entrance looks like a departure from where the visitors can reach their destination.

The building is designed as a city, a society in miniature, in a cave. The building is full of sight and doorkijkjes, which offer views on the various visitors, activities and cultures in the building. Sunlight penetrates all cracks in the roof well into the interior through. Low windows frame the view of the street and lawn.
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Original text from VenhoevenCS translated by Design Ideas