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Indoor Sports Centre

Bristol

Project Details

£2m to £2.99M

Practice

Oxford Architects LLP

The Workshop , 254 Southmead Road , Westbury-on-Trym , BRISTOL , BS10 5EN

Along Tyndall Avenue, at the Indoor Sport Centre, we have completed the design for a new 2-storey façade with new brise-soleil and reception. The new full height glazing provides transparency to the reconfigured gymnasium advertising the internal activities to passing pedestrians. The Indoor Sports Centre is being remodelled to support the University’s growth plans for overall student numbers and Sport Exercise & Health’s projected increase in student physical activity. Our brief was to: • Increase the Gym & Fitness studio areas by 30% as a minimum to align with increased user number predictions. • Increase the changing room capacity by providing a new ‘Changing Village.’ • Refurbish the First Floor to provide new stretching studio and staff offices. • Remodel the entrance & reception area to provide a ‘Welcome Point’ for all users and visitors. • Improve the appearance of the façade facing Tyndall Avenue to align with the campus heart pedestrianisation scheme. • Remodel the Sports Medicine Clinic. • Support 24-hour operation of the ground floor gym and changing facilities. • Ensure the flow of people in remodelled areas is efficient and supports the projected increase in user numbers. Constraints: • Maintaining access to an operational Gym during the construction works through phased working with sectional handovers which affected M&E works and commissioning the building. • Maintaining access to the 2nd floor (Sports Hall and Viewing) to provide adequate fire escape. The pedestrianisation of the street is now being developed with the Landscape Architects, Nicholas Pearsons.