The challenge was to provide a central amenity building that will provide public amenity space and support functions for the sport groups and the activities in the play fields. The public component is to include a Community room (multi-purpose space) as well as public washrooms. An office and washroom for Parks Maintenance staff is also included in the City Funded program. Additional, User Funded, program elements include change room facilities for players and officials, storage space for equipment, office and meeting room space for several local sport groups, and a public concession space. Given the possibility that the City Funded portion may be developed as a separate first phase, with additional program to follow as User funding permits, a flexible approach to planning was important. In short, the facility was to be flexible and community friendly.
The central theme of the design response was to create a central plaza that would serve as a focal point and landmark within the large open expanse of the sport field area; a destination in itself, or a pleasant waypoint marking progress along the long march from one end of the field to the other. As the program identifies only relatively modest public spaces, the intent was to develop the pavilion so as to create an outdoor public space with the character of a courtyard or village centre. This plaza takes the form of a slightly raised plinth, overlooking the surrounding play fields, with hard landscape elements echo forms within the square and reach out into the adjacent landscape.
The approach was to be to arrange program elements in a figure-ground composition of built form and open 'streets' or court spaces. The program was analyzed so that a suitable spatial module could be determined, and appropriate groupings and adjacencies established. By planning for most spaces to be accessed directly from the exterior, off the court spaces, activity and life would be brought to the spaces. Further, these spaces allow for a 'spill over' of activity from interior public spaces to exterior ones. Given the 'village in miniature' effect being pursued, it is also easy to envision public events such as fairs, bazaars, or community craft sales being housed in the square. This nature also lends itself well to providing opportunities for housing public art - whether in the form of sculpture or perhaps even murals on the building elements themselves.
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