34
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      A TALE OF FOUR AUSTRALIAN SPORTS HALLS

      research-article

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          INTRODUCTION

          This is the story of four apparently simple buildings. It is the tale of four Australian sports halls. Their forms range from a heavy, low concrete structure; to a floating lightweight building using steel and plywood; to another with an ephemeral transparent form and no apparent mass; and, finally, to a building that looks like a grandstand at the side of a cricket pitch.

          The buildings have won multiple Australian architecture, design, and building awards, and one went on to win the Best Sports Building award at the World Architecture Festival.

          What is remarkable about the buildings is that all four—each designed by Australian architects Allen Jack+Cottier—were designed in response to the same, some might consider prescriptive, design brief from the New South Wales government. Or, more specifically, they were designed to meet a standardised briefing document from the NSW Department of Schools and Sport & Recreation NSW for indoor sports halls.

          Each building takes its form from the landscape and the microclimate in which it is located, and each serves to educate its young visitors about sustainable building, as well as operate in a sustainable manner.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          jgrb
          Journal of Green Building
          College Publishing
          1552-6100
          1943-4618
          1943-4618
          Summer 2013
          : 8
          : 3
          : 3-33
          Author notes

          1CEO and Principal, Design, Allen Jack+Cottier Architects, Sydney, Australia, michael.heenan@ 123456architectsajc.com , www.architectsajc.com

          Article
          jgb.8.3.3
          10.3992/jgb.8.3.3
          51394f83-cf17-4fcd-862d-11517a343166
          ©2013 by College Publishing. All rights reserved.
          History
          Page count
          Pages: 31
          Categories
          INDUSTRY CORNER

          Urban design & Planning,Civil engineering,Environmental management, Policy & Planning,Architecture,Environmental engineering
          leisure facilities,multi-purpose,ESD,architecture,design,natural ventilation,sporting facilities

          Comments

          Comment on this article