Wellington indoor sports

community centre, New Zealand

 Facts and figures
Total area: 15,800m²
Basement: 4,500m² (car parking)
Ground floor: 12,600m ² (10,000m² sports floor,
cafe, changing rooms, storage)
Mezzanine: 3,200m ²  (meeting spaces, sports
admin, high performance sport)
Max height: 15m
Address : Cobham court, kilbirnie, wellington
Attraction type : Sports facility, stadium
 introduction
• allow for a 12-court facility with the potential
to increase capacity by three further courts in
the future.
• 40 schools close to the site will fully benefit
• Construction began in January 2010.
• The completed sports centre was named the
ASB Sports Centre in August 2011
Proposed Uses
• Existing demand and the growing popularity
of netball, basketball and volleyball has
highlighted the city’s need for more indoor
sports capacity.
• will measure 10,500 square metres, providing
the public with quality playing and training
facilities for a variety of indoor sports.
• will also be a great destination for regional
and national sports tournaments.
 construction
• roofing system, including the large gutter
drainage
• erected all the structural steel and concrete
wall panels
• completed the timber framing and steel
balustrade
• framed up the mezzanine levels, ready to be
fitted out
• nearly finished installing the windows and
louvres around the outside
 Services
• Archives
• Arts
• Berhampore Golf Court
• Botanic garden
• Libraries
• Recreation Centres
• Sewerage & Wastewater
• Signage & Postering
• Stormwater
• Swimming Pools
 Revoked bylaws
• Air Conditioning
• Clean Indoor Air
• Drainage and Plumbing
• Earthworks
• Library
• Research centres
• Reserves and Swimming Pools
• Water Supply
 Inside the sport centre
• 12 fullsize netball courts
• retractable seating for up to 2200 spectators
around a ‘show court’
• centre will cater for basketball, volleyball,
korfball, floorball and handball. 
• It will also be used by athletics and martial
arts groups
• It also has a cafe
• a high performance sports facility
• meeting rooms available for hire and office
space for local sports codes
• off-street parking for 317 vehicles.
 Lighting
• Tried to use max. daylighting penatrating the
roof along with flourescent tubes
Natural light
• Direct light is also used
• Somewhere provided both direct and indirect
lighting system
• In the areas like gym hall, there is not
provision of day lighting
• Semi direct and semi indirect lights are used
Provision of artificial light in cricket court
Lights from ventilation
lighting
lighting
 Conclusion
• From the case studies of many national and
international indoor sports hall, we see that
light and acoustic plays very important role.
They are like the backbone. So lighting and
acoustics are the factors must be considered
along with natural daylighting during the
design of indoor sports hall.
 References
• Google 
• ARCHITECT DATA
• BY ERNEST NEUFERT
• TIME SAVER STANDARD
• BY JOSEPH DEDCHIARA AND JOHN CALANDER
• THESIS REPORT
• PEOPLE PLACES
• BY CLARE COOPER MARCUS AND CAROLYN FRANCIS
• LANDSCAPE OF RECREATION I (SPORTS FACILITIES)
• NEW ARCHITECTURE – SPORTS FACILITIES 3
• UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURE
• BY FULLER MOORE
• www.sportcomplex.com
Thank you