CASE STUDY (INTERNATIONAL)

MILSON ISLAND INDOOR SPORT STADIUM

• ARCHIETCTS: ALLEN JACK+COTTIER ARCHITECTS
• AREA: 690sq.m
• YEAR:2010
• COUNTRY: NEW WALES, AUSTRALIA
• BRIEF: BASICALLY, CALLED FOR A ROBUST MULTI-PURPOSE SPORTS
HALL FOR INDOOR SPORTS SUCH AS BASKETBALL, NETBALL AND
VOLLEYBALL, AS WELL AS THREATRE AND DANCE PERFOMANCES AND
EXHIBITIONS.
 TOPOGRAPHY
• SETTLEMENT
• ISLAND WAS SETTLED 100 YEARS AGO IN NEW WALES.
• MILSON ISLAND HAS BEEN USED AT VARIOUS
• OVER PAST YEARS AS A JAIL AND TODAY AS A PLAYGROUND. MAP
• NOW A SPACE FOR SPORTS AND RE-CREATION
• IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF HAWKSBERRY RIVER
• WHERE MODE OF TRANSPORT WAS BY BOAT OR FERRY.
 SITE PLAN
•

ATTACHED AMINITIES AND STORAGE RETENTION SERVICE THE FIREPLACE.

THEY ALSO DEFINE CLEAR AND STRONG SPACE TO HALL.
BUILDING CHARACTER
• THE UNUSAL ASYMMETRICAL CURVE OF HALL IS UNDER
CONSIDERATIONS FOR WIND LOAD, BUSHFIRE PROTECTION AND
MAINTAINANCE.
• MAIN CURVE DIRECTS WIND EFFICIENTLY OVER THE ROOF.

THE NATURAL THERMAL VENTILATION CREATED A WING SHAPE.

SMOOTH AIFLOW REQUIRED A CLEAN, CRISP INTERIOR SKIN.
• RAINWATER FALLS CLEAR OF THE ROOF.
• AT NIGHT, THE CURVED WING SHAPE OF BUILDING ACTS AS PROSCENIUM
ARCH TO DEFINE PLACE

• SHAPE OF BUILDING EMERGED FROM THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS

• ELEVATIONAL SIDES

• EAST ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION
•
• NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATION
• SECTIONAL VIEW
• STRCUTURAL ANALYSIS:
• MATERIALS WAS GENERALLY LIGHTWEIGHT.
• STEEL SECTIONS COULD BE READILY HANDLED.
• USE OF CONCRETE FOOTING WAS MINIMIZED BY EMBEDDING STEEL POST.
• STEEL JOINTED FLOOR SYSTEM WAS ADOPTED RATHER THAN TRADITIONAL
CONCRETE SLAB.
• THE DESIGN EXPLOITS THE INHERENT PROPERTIES OF CROSS
LAMINATED PLYWOOD.
• USED TO BRACE THE STEEL PORTAL FRAME, WITH THE BUILDING OF
DESIGNED TO UNLOAD WIND FORCES ON THIS EXPOSED SITE.
• THE STEEL FRAME, IN CONJUCTION WITH ONE CROSS LAMINATED
PLYWOOD BAY, CARRIES ALL THE WIND LOADS OF 38m OF BUILDING
TO THE GROUND.
• A COMBINATION OF TWELEVE WIND TURBINES ENSURES THE
BUILDING REMAINS COOL IN SYDNEY’S FIERCE SUMMER HEAT.
• IN WINTER, WITH THE TURBINES AND LOUVRES CLOSED, A HEAT
PLUME FORMS ACTS AS LIKE AN INSULATION BLANKET.
ROOF CONSTRUCTION
• RAINWATER FALLS CLEAR TO THE ROOF INTO OVERSIZED ROCK
GARDENS FOR NATURAL FILTERING.
• NATURAL LIGHT FROM THE ROOF WINDOWS, GROUND LEVEL SLOT
WINDOWS AND END WALL CREATE AND ART LIKE FEEL GALLERY