Project Rationale
ln this design we have addressed a number of issues with the existing Mill Woods Sports Park. The first is the development of the park on a piecemeal basis. There is no unifying component that both draws people in and can serve as signage for the park to the community and visitors.The second is the lack of connectivity between HolyTrinity, J. Percy Page, Mill Woods Recreation Centre, and the main body of the park. There is also a lack of connectivity across the sports fields trom the western to the eastern sides of the park. The geometries of adjacent playing fields cue the sweeping arcs that define the new park pavilion. Rising from the northern edge of the site, the tilted slope of the pavilion's green roof exposes a luminous façade to the southern sports fields and to the main entry from 23rd Avenue. Providing a connection spine to the rec centre and schools, and serving as a beacon to the community at large, a Light Box acts as a billboard; Its colour changing from neutral white to signal the home team's winning colours, whether it be Grizzlies teal or Oilers orange and blue.
The Design Solution
The new pavilion is divided into two programmed wedges connected bya day lit corridor. The western wedge of the pavilion houses the required city funded program with the added amenity of the Concession Area and First Aid Station. If built prior to Phase Il, access to ail of the programmatic spaces will be from the exterior, allowing each space to be day lit and independently accessed. The eastern wedge and Light Box constitute the second phase of construction and incorporate the Meeting Room, Change Rooms, and Storage Rooms. The Team Change Rooms open directly to the exterior while the Official's Change Rooms are grouped off the corridor with the Offices and Meeting Room. The Storage Rooms are tucked behind this L-shaped program volume in a large room that is subdivided into flexible storage areas imagined as chain link cages that can be easi Iy reconfigured as required. The Light Box is a multi-function building component. It allows the Common Area to expand by borrowing space trom the hallway, it provides daylight to the interior rooms, it vents warm air via stack effect and mechanical vents in its roof, and it is also a passage from the parking area and southern playing fields to HolyTrinity and J. Percy Page High Schools and the Mill Woods Recreation Centre to the northwest.
Landscape and Site Work
The landscape design is composed of a simple palette of species organized along the geometric lines of the site trajectories. The new multipurpose slope is covered in sod, both as a nod to the surrounding playing fields and because it is cheap, durable, and easily replaceable. It will allow summer lounging and play as weil as winter sledding, seemingly the one activity that is currently missing from this weil programmed sports park. In any season it provides an aerial view of the many sport fields to the south and east. A row of red maple shade trees lines the southern side of the building, blocking summer sun but allowing passive heat gain in the winter months.TaIl grasses along the light box will sway with the wind and create shadow play against and within the corridor. The pathway on the east side that leads to the playing fields and water park is also lined with a triangle of tall grasses, a combination of switch grass and blue stem, that envelopes a stand of white spruce that integrates this new planting scheme to the existing landscape of conifers.
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