Sports Facility Analysis and Improvement Suggestions

Sports Facility Analysis and Improvement Suggestions

Part One

The venue’s annex 1 region will consist of twenty-three auxiliary and sports spaces. Precisely, sports spaces will consist of athlete’s stadium, pool centers, six lanes of the indoor basin, fitness arena, indoor cycling area, and racquet sports squash areas. On the other hand, Auxiliary regions will compose of sites hosting spectators, non-participants, and athlete personnel. Auxiliary specified parts will include management, storage, administration, communication, and cleaning areas and areas fixed to complementary rendered services such as sidewalks, eateries, and sidewalks.

The athletic arena will be divided into four regions. They include symbolic, traditional and non-traditional, and specialized areas. The traditional athletic site for sports activities is based on the set sports standard features, requirements, and outlined dimensions and makes up the central athletic field. Specialized athletic fields are used for squash, fitness, indoor cycling areas, pool, and indoor basin facilities.

Depending on the set dimensions and standards for sports, distinct sports spaces are mapped out. The main sports arena will incorporate a size between 90 and 120 meters. Stadium sturdy trucks will have eight lanes of meters between 93 and 177, while swimming pool designated dimension lanes distance will be 2.5 meters and have a length and width of 50 meters and 25 meters, respectively. On the other hand, the six lanes, a height of 25 meters and a width of 12.5 meters, will make up the indoor basin. Also, 456 meters square will cover the fitness area with 60 meters square making each the squash rooms. Additionally, the classroom for groups will be 115 meters square, and the indoor cycling spaces will cover 78 meters square.

Part 2

Auxiliary and sports facilities should be installed in appropriate areas for efficient management and diverse users’ access. From the extensive analysis of auxiliary and sports areas, it is evidence that they are distributed inappropriately with respect to sports orientation and entry regions set standards. Following such disorientation in auxiliary and sports areas, the users of Annex 1will struggle to access the vast spaces; for instance, from the reception end, sports participants can access all the set rooms among them are men and women’s lockers, while non-participants can only access stores, then waiting room before they locate athletic arenas which, is time-consuming.

On the other hand, via a close look at Annex 1 plan, sports participants and non-participants through the set south entry point would access the lobby room vital for hosting facility participants. Also, at the sports entrance, there is regulated access to the reception region. In the reception, users can access sports or office material storage rooms if they are administrators or employees. Sports participant members in the reception area, on the other hand, would only access lock rooms for certain sports athletic regions. In contrast, the non-participants can access from the reception, directly athletic arenas.

One challenge with creating several and inappropriate plans for sports entry areas that also lack organization knowledge is that there are various disconnections, more extended athletic areas access, and missing rooms or points to installed auxiliary and athletic centers. In the reception area, there should be access routes nearest to the main stadium. The Annex 1 plan lacks access ends connecting the reception region with set sports. To access swimming sports facilities, one should pass first to the central stadium.

Correspondingly, the sports region orientation based on the sun course lacks suiting a sports venue. It has various observable challenges. Annex 1 plan on the main stadium is more diminutive than indoor basin consisting of six swimming lanes. Also, a discernible challenge is viewed on the ambiguous set design and plan for the pavilion and cafes. Besides, depending on the position of compass direction, sports facilities’ direction should be on the north and southwest poles. Stadium orientation and design should have fewer sunrays interruptions.

Part 3

Determining the exact capacity of every sports space will be critical for handling the challenge discussed above. The table below examines the facility’s available areas, square meters, and maximum capacity.

Based on the analysis, the maximum capacity facility is 340, and the thumb rule is 50%. Set maximum number of users for the locker room is 170, and the ideal size for the locker room is 595 and thus, note the locker room’s surface as 550 square meters which, is not adequate for all users.

Part 4

Strengths in UEM Sports Complex Plan   

Facility designs have fully incorporated these five aspects. They are indoor athletic regions orientation; users flow in the athletic, fitness, pavilion, indoor cycling, group classes, and squash rooms.  UEM sports complex has fully included auxiliary and athletic facilities, fully designed the six lanes of the indoor basin, and positioned storage and café administration rooms. Indoor athletic areas orientation designs were fully achieved for squash, fitness, group classes, and indoor cycling. The set basic layouts allowed participants and non-participants to access the site from the cafeteria.

Consecutively, the UEM sports complex design for auxiliary and sporting activities complemented sports activities. The complex design has both outdoor and indoor areas, offices, access points, and storage regions. Also, it incorporated appropriate indoor basins with six lanes of 25 and 12.5 meters in length and width. Besides, along the dimensions (four), sidewalks are designed, and that there are swimming pools for participants and non-participants. Additionally, the sports complex for UEM has a sports storage room aligning with venue sports requirements. The storage rooms, in addition to the cafeteria, reception, and administration, are easily accessible for every user. They are placed near the central stadium, vital for movement minimization and effective management. Precisely, one of the cafeterias is located near the main stadium, the administration and reception, fitness and squash rooms among other rooms and easily accessible by near participants and non-participants. Another cafeteria based on the sidewalk is accessible by all users along the indoor basin.

Weaknesses in UEM Sports Complex Plan           

Several weaknesses are evident in the five facility design aspects. They are vivid in the construction of central stadium orientation, the orientation of the six lanes in the indoor basin, the layout flow en route to the indoor bay, fitness, squash, group class, and indoor cycling rooms design. Generally, an orientation length for the outdoor athlete area must follow the standards of the set sport: north-south lengthwise orientation. The central stadium in the plan of UEM Sports Complex is constructed in the east-west, which fails to rely on building sporting complex standards though this challenge cannot be rectified because it requires a new plan that is costly and time-consuming. The sports set standards insist that the outdoor sports arena follows the north and south orientation standard, allowing sunlight to enter via the south region in the stadium. On the other hand, indoor basin rooms’ orientation design was inappropriate. It took north and south length orientation, which cannot be revamped as it will affect available auxiliary and sporting centers in the UEM sporting complex. Besides that, indoor basin rooms have longer access routes which are tiring to both participants and non-participants. The members have to first pass via the pavilion or en route to the central stadium. When there are several activities in indoor basins, there would be access hindrance. The designer must incorporate direct route access to the indoor bays depending on the lanes available to improve the latter. There should be access routes between the central stadium and the pavilion. To fulfill the goal in due time, the planner must create an outline at the reception accessible routes to the venue.

On the other hand, also, locker rooms orientation for every user was inappropriate. Squash, fitness, group classrooms, and indoor cycling fail to have lockers. Therefore, to address the latter, the planner needs to add lockers to the above-outlined rooms. Besides that, the primary stadium should fit size set dimensions and standards; however, opposite when analyzing the UEM sporting complex, though this cannot be achieved since it will need a re-designing of the whole plan. Precisely, the significant aspects that can be improved are the provision of lockers in squash, fitness, group class, and indoor cycling areas. Also, direct route access should be created from reception via the cafeteria to minimize movement hindrances to indoor and outdoor athletic arenas.

References

Universidad Europea, (n.d.). Management and Operation of Sports Venues. Topic 3. Facilities and locations for practicing sports and physical activity. Concepts and classifications.

Universidad Europea, (n.d.). Management and Operation of Sports Venues. Topic 4. Planning and design of facilities for sports and physical activity