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Analysis | Olympics | Eton Manor

OLYMPIC IN DETAIL 5 4 2 10 10 6 3 9 10 8 1 7 10 11 12

Architect: Stanton Williams Design and build architect (sports centre): Gibberds Olympic use: Swimming training, Paralympic use: Wheelchair tennis Legacy use: Hockey arena, tennis centre (indoor and out), five-a-side football, allotments, mountain bike trail – run by Lee Valley Regional Park Best thing: Sports centre’s dramatic clear span under 40m glulam beams Worst thing: Soulless public edge with a large hardstanding for temporary hockey arena seating. Reinforced grass won’t make this a meadow

LEGACY IN DETAIL 16 17 21 20 19 1 13 6 22 12 9 14 18 15

1: Sports Centre Complex – back of house (games); indoor courts, changing, hospitality (legacy)

2: Aquatics training 3: Wheelchair tennis – Court 1 – 5,000 spectators

4: Wheelchair tennis – outer courts – 5,500 spectators

5: Wheelchair tennis – warm up courts

6: Western public concourse and hockey stadium expansion space (legacy)

7: Southern public concourse 8: Spectator toilets 9: Utilities enclosure 10: Back of house 11: Bridge link over Ruckholt Road. Spectator entrance (games)

12: Bridge link over A12 to Olympic Park and Velodrome

access meant putting exclusion zones – particularly for permanent structures – around its position in the centre of the plan. Since the turbine was dropped its role as centrepiece has been taken by the rather smaller Eton Manor War Memorial. This will sit in the landscaped square held together by the L-shaped plan of the timber-clad sports centre. The sports hall has been designed as clear

span: the visible glulam grid further opened up with lines of simple polycarbonate rooflights. It will house athletes’ facilities during the Paralympics and four indoor tennis courts after

the games. But it is flexible enough to be used for different types of courts or even different types of shows and has a door large enough for lorry access ready for such an opportunity. A spectators’ gallery gives it extra volume. Alongside the sports hall is a block of first

floor social spaces and loos, which sit above ground floor changing rooms. These serve the outdoor pitch (for first tennis, then hockey) and its concrete rake of seating at the entrance to the site. During the games temporary stands will sit on top of the concrete rake on one side and over the western concourse on the other. n

IN NUMBERS: 4,730m2 building, 134,500m2

13: Main hockey stadium – 3,000 spectators

14: External tennis courts 15: Hockey pitch 16: Allotments 17: Five-a-side football 18: Mountain bike trail 19: Public meadow and entrance plaza

20: Car park 21: Vehicle entrance 22: Pedestrian entrance to Olympic Park

site, 3 50m swimming pools, 1 sychronised; 1 water polo pool; 9

competition, 4 warm-up tennis courts. 10,500 capacity including 5,000-capacity show court. Legacy: 4 indoor, 6 outdoor tennis courts; 2 hockey pitches, 15,000 capacity for elite hockey events. 200- tonne, 42m long, 6m wide bridge from Hackney East Marsh to Eton Manor

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