USKUDAR SPORTS COMPLEX

 

YEAR    :    2017

       PROGRAM    :    Sports / Hybrid

                        STATUS    :    Undergraduate Project

        Üsküdar Sports Complex is a project of buildings designed to provide spaces for 2 main sport branches ( swimming and basketball ), located near Karacaahmet Cemetery, right on the plots of the older sports centers at Üsküdar.

       The aim of the design was to create a contemporary, sustainable design of sports centers instead of the older ones. At first, the plot was half the size of what it became afterwards, therefore, project got bigger, and a 3rd building added with other sports facilities which turned the project into a small sports city in a way. The trademarks of the buildings were the floating roofs which were inspired by gulls spreading their wings and fully glazed facades which makes a transparent view of the games / events taking place inside. V shaped, slanted steel columns were designed to carry the roof. The initial design was connected to the latter design plot with pedestrian bridges carried by suspended steel cables and slanted steel columns.

LOCATION

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

        The main, public entrances are all on the top floor which is the ground floor for this building. The two main buildings have seperate entrances and two buildings are connected by a terrace roof with stores and a little square looking over to the open air swimming pool.  

1ST BASEMENT FLOOR

        The basketball arena contains 3 basketball courts with suspended hoops for practices. When there is a commercial match, folded stands can be unfolded from both sides through the court creating total of  1056 people capacity sports center. The court can also be used for other sports games such as volleyball, handball. As for the olympic swimming pool, it was designed with 310 people capacity stands with a similar design approach. The athlete entrances for both buildings are at the rear side of the buildings at this level. All of the locker rooms were designed to seperate the clean and dirty areas. In the middle of the two buildings, there is an huge 2-storey gym with an atrium was designed.

2ND BASEMENT FLOOR

3RD BASEMENT FLOOR                        4TH BASEMENT FLOOR

616 vehicle capacity car garage

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