Sports facilities
Who are sports facilities dedicated to? How to design sports infrastructure? What are the latest trends in sports architecture? Sports facilities or multi-purpose facilities? Do sports facilities improve the attractiveness of a city? How to attract tourists to the city?
To whom are sports facilities dedicated?
For a few, sports is a career path, fierce competition, victories and defeats. However, most of us associate sports with active leisure, recreation, socializing, adventure and entertainment. However, sports are always accompanied by emotions, which should somehow be reflected in the architecture associated with it. Emotions have always been emphasized since antiquity, through the Baroque, by the play of light and shadow. Therefore, today designers of sports facilities, in order to better expose the shape of the designed establishment in the cityscape, often use varied facade structures, spectacular illuminations and ultra-modern lighting effects.
how to design sports infrastructure?
The architectural design of sports facilities, whether we are talking about large-scale projects or smaller ones, does not have as complicated a history as housing or religious buildings. In Europe, modernism captured most architectural solutions directly from antiquity, while postmodernism brought asymmetry and organic forms. Architects who specialized in designing such architectural assumptions are required to have a particularly rich knowledge of the structural possibilities of building materials and their variety. Stadiums and sports halls, can be stand-alone buildings or be part of a larger premise, and must also meet functional and aesthetic requirements. When approaching the design of such large assumptions, it is necessary to keep in mind the large crowds of people, passing through such facilities repeatedly and at one time. Physical activity can be metaphorically reflected in the form of solids or accents in the interiors. Movement - the main component of sports can be expressed in many ways, including by emphasizing the form of a circle, as architects from SPACELAB office did, designing the interior of a modern gym in industrial style. Read about this in the article WF Fitness.
sports or multipurpose facilities?
These major sports facilities, such as stadiums, do not just gather athletes and fans, they often also host concerts and musical events, or gatherings of a religious nature, which is why thinking about their acoustics is so important in the design process. Nowadays, sports facilities are intended to be multifunctional, such as the GAME StreetMecca Center in Viborg. For more on this facility, see article StreetMekka. In addition to sports and recreation - they are centers of culture and business.
sports facilities a city's attractiveness
The image of a city is created not only by facilitating access for its residents and tourists to intellectual entertainment, but also to physical culture. The revitalization of a city is often accomplished by creating new sports facilities or transforming undeveloped areas into places for sports and recreation. This happens especially when a city becomes the host of the Olympic Games or other sporting events. An interestingly designed sports infrastructure, using modern technologies, can be one of the main tourist attractions of a city, becoming its symbol for years to come.
