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Death of the four-court sports hall
schools. There is a great range of flexible, low cost, all weather sports facilities out there to be used and so why is everyone sticking to the norm? I’d personally like to see the back of the
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four-court sports hall. The design of these halls is heavily influenced by badminton – regardless of whether or not there is an actual requirement for the sport in the area. We should be paying more attention to local interests and growth activities and developing new facilities that stem from these. This ideology could result in (for example) tennis court halls, five-a-side football halls, gymnastics halls, artistic
n my opinion greater emphasis should be put on transforming physical education and sport in
performance halls, basketball halls – or badminton if there was a genuine need. An alternative option is a more flexible
indoor sports space. There should be no assumption of a 33m x 18m x 7.6m box with a sprung wooden floor, dark walls and no natural daylight. Instead, how about a 40m x 20m x 6m
indoor space, lit by diffused natural daylight with a rubber coated sports floor to British Standards, sound absor- bent roof and walls with a primary focus on sport but a secondary function as a performance space? While this would be expensive if built
conventionally in brick and steel, alter- native building forms are now available which have much lower capital costs
We need to start exploring the options and making the most of them if school sports facilities are ever going to deliver their full potential
thanks to lightweight materials and off-site manufacture. The options are wide ranging, from
covered outdoor spaces (increasing utilisation and decreasing negative as- sociations of floodlighting), to synthetic turf football pitches (enabling games to take place outside of school hours without fear of messing up the pitches for school lessons). But we need to start exploring these options and making the most of them if school sports facilities are ever going to deliver their full potential.
Marcus Kingwell, pmpgenesis
Tennis court halls, made from lightweight materials are an
alternative to traditional four-court halls
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