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An interior precedent for industrial sports architecture featuring exposed steel trusses, heavy masonry perimeter walls, and dramatic daylight pooling across a large activity floor.
- What we like about this project
- The large daylight portals cut low into the heavy masonry wall, offering direct sightlines to parked cars from the playing surface.
Materials
- steel
- concrete-masonry-unit
- mesh
- synthetic-flooring
Visual identifiers
- steel-trusses
- cmu-block-walls
- rink-floor
- punched-openings
Style tags
- industrial
- utilitarian
- functional
Visual tags
- recreational
- sports-facility
- industrial
- daylit
- clear-span
- Geometry
- Large clear-span rectangular hall defined by exposed steel roof trusses overhead and heavy masonry walls enclosing the perimeter.
- Facade system
- Heavy concrete masonry unit (CMU) wall system featuring deeply recessed large punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Open-web steel roof joists and trusses supported by reinforced CMU masonry bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale athletic venue capable of housing an indoor rink and spectator areas under a high clear-span truss roof.
- Lighting
- Direct sunlight cuts across the rink floor in sharp rectangular patches through perimeter wall openings, supplemented by overhead industrial pendant fixtures.
- Atmosphere
- Pragmatic, cool, and expansive with stark patches of bright sunlight animating the large athletic floor.
- Environmental context
- Interior sports facility with exterior surface parking visible through large window reveals.
- Spatial experience
- A vast, open recreational volume where the protective safety netting and low daylight portals frame views outward to parked vehicles.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating roof truss bays paired with evenly spaced perimeter wall openings establishing a steady structural cadence.
- Style reading
- Industrial utilitarian sports architecture
- Program
- Indoor roller hockey / sports arena
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- steel, concrete-masonry-unit, mesh, synthetic-flooring
- Visual identifiers
- steel-trusses, cmu-block-walls, rink-floor, punched-openings
- Style tags
- industrial, utilitarian, functional
- Visual tags
- recreational, sports-facility, industrial, daylit, clear-span
- Geometry
- Large clear-span rectangular hall defined by exposed steel roof trusses overhead and heavy masonry walls enclosing the perimeter.
- Facade system
- Heavy concrete masonry unit (CMU) wall system featuring deeply recessed large punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Open-web steel roof joists and trusses supported by reinforced CMU masonry bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale athletic venue capable of housing an indoor rink and spectator areas under a high clear-span truss roof.
- Lighting
- Direct sunlight cuts across the rink floor in sharp rectangular patches through perimeter wall openings, supplemented by overhead industrial pendant fixtures.
- Atmosphere
- Pragmatic, cool, and expansive with stark patches of bright sunlight animating the large athletic floor.
- Environmental context
- Interior sports facility with exterior surface parking visible through large window reveals.
- Spatial experience
- A vast, open recreational volume where the protective safety netting and low daylight portals frame views outward to parked vehicles.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating roof truss bays paired with evenly spaced perimeter wall openings establishing a steady structural cadence.
- Style reading
- Industrial utilitarian sports architecture
- Program
- Indoor roller hockey / sports arena
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture