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Award / Auszeichnung | 03/2004

RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2004

Cabra Parkside Community and Sports Centre

IE-7 Dublin, John Paul II Park, Ratoath Road

Regional Award 2004

HENCHION REUTER ARCHITEKTEN

Architektur

Projektdaten

  • Gebäudetyp:

    Sport und Freizeit

  • Projektgröße:

    keine Angabe

  • Status:

    Realisiert

  • Termine:

    Fertigstellung: 05/2004

Projektbeschreibung

RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2004 - Citation

Dublin Over €3m

A restrained and modulated structure that provides elemental spaces for sport, recreation and delight. A building full of light, incident and detail. A remarkable building for youth at risk.

Architect's Comment
Pope John Paul Park was developed from a disused railway shunting-yard in the 1950's and it is now an intensively used sports park with 5 football pitches and a running track.

The brief from Dublin City Council was to develop these sports facilities and to provide accommodation for various community facilities. In particular the local 'youth at risk' are to be targeted and the building will be the base for all youth services workers in the area.

On the ground floor the building provides six paired external changing rooms for the outdoor playing pitches. These are independently accessed and each is a self-contained unit with its own WC and showers. These facilities can be used without opening up the whole facility. Also accessed externally are the referees changing room, changing rooms for the all-weather pitch and three store rooms for nets and other equipment.

The main entrance faces the playing pitches and the entrance 'forecourt' is an extension to the path circuiting the park which is also to be developed as a running track.

The main hall is a standard single sports hall suitable for basketball, indoor soccer, badminton and volley ball. Other accommodation on the ground floor includes a dance studio, martial arts studio and the main changing rooms.

A self-contained suite of rooms provide a child-care facility with access to the timber decked terrace to the south west. A number for further community rooms also share access to this deck which acts as a viewing terrace to the all-weather pitch below.

Various forms of roof-lighting maximise lighting from above and the section has been developed to capitalise on borrowed light where the plan is deepest.

While the main studio spaces are calm and simple the circulation spaces have been invested with incident and detail. In particular; colour has been introduced to respond to the moments of greatest light intensity, while views through to neighbouring rooms and across the section of the building have been orchestrated to allow the participants to see and be seen.

Clients' Comment
Our brief to the architect was for a robust but inviting building, symbolising youthful energies, in an established suburban setting. Through sensitive choice of materials, proportion, and careful design, the architects have created an attractive building which has achieved the objections of Dublin City Council.

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Pope John Paul 11 Park was developed from a disused railway shunting-yard in the 1950’s and it is now an intensively used sports park. On the ground floor the building provides six paired external changing rooms for the outdoor playing pitches. The main entrance faces the playing pitches and the entrance ‘forecourt’ is an extension of the path circuiting the park, also used as a running track. The main hall is a standard single sports hall. Other accommodation on the ground floor includes a dance studio, martial arts studio and the main changing rooms. The main stairs leads directly to a canteen area at the first floor which overlooks the main hall and the all-weather pitch. The fitness studios overlook the external playing pitches. A self-contained suite of rooms house a child-care facility with access to the frames terrace to the south west. A number for further community rooms also share access to this deck which acts as a viewing terrace to the all-weather pitch below. Various forms of roof-lights maximise lighting from above and the section has been developed to capitalise on borrowed light where the plan is deepest. While the main studio spaces are calm and simple the circulation spaces have been invested with incident and colour.
Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

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Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin

Foto: Henchion Reuter Dublin