RESEARCH DESIGN

MAJOR PLATE 01: COMMUNITY SPORTS FACILITY

Submitted by:

PARAZO,REYMARK G.

Course and Section:

AR301-ARCH31S6

Architectural Design 5

Submitted to:

AR. ROYALLE MAE GAA

Design 5 - Instructor

Overview of the Project

What is a Community Sports Facility?

Community sports facilities are essential for encouraging social cohesion, physical
activity, and improving people's general well-being in a community. These amenities,
which include a variety of areas including playgrounds, parks, and sports complexes,
function as active hubs for community involvement and provide locals with the
chance to engage in a variety of leisure and competitive activities.

The capacity of community sports facilities to foster connections among residents is

one of its main advantages. These facilities act as gathering places for people to
socialize, giving residents the chance to make new friends, deepen old ones, and share
experiences. According to research, social connections might have a special benefit in
fostering mental and emotional health.

What are the spaces that are usually found in a Community Sports Facility?

Spaces Definition
Sports Courts and Fields hese include facilities for basketball, tennis,
soccer, volleyball, and other team sports.
They are designed to accommodate both
casual play and organized competitions.
Fitness Areas Many community sports facilities have
gyms or fitness centers with equipment for
strength training, cardiovascular workouts,
and group exercise classes like aerobics or
yoga.
Swimming Pools These facilities often feature indoor or
outdoor pools for lap swimming,
recreational swimming, and sometimes
water-based fitness classes.
Multi-Purpose Rooms These rooms can be used for various
activities including fitness classes,
community meetings, and events.
Changing Rooms and Locker Facilities To support users, these areas provide
lockers, showers, and restrooms.
Administrative and Support Services Includes spaces for staff, reception, and
areas for organizing leagues, events, and
registration for programs.
Recreational Areas Some facilities include additional features
like playgrounds, walking trails, or picnic
areas for informal activities and relaxation.

Design key Principles

 A. Fit for purpose
- While promoting a flexible and multi-use approach, ensure female friendly design
elements and specific requirements meet the level and type of activities being delivered,
as well as occupant, club or tenant needs.

B. Multi and shared use

- Infrastructure should be efficiently designed to promote equitable and flexible use by a
mixture of users capable of sharing facilities and usage times. In particular, the facility
space planning and design of public spaces should adopt a multipurpose approach.

C. Public Safety
- Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) takes into consideration the
relationship between users and the physical environment in the design of public spaces in
crime prevention and assists with public safety.

D. Health and Safety

- Security and safety of users should be paramount. Community sport and active recreation
facilities and their surrounds should be designed, built and maintained in accordance with
relevant occupational health and safety standards. They should also incorporate child safe
and safer design principles into facility design.

E. Functionality
- Facility design and layout should promote safe and optimal functionality to accommodate
formal, competitive, social and recreational forms of usage and participation.

Design standards for Community Sports Facility

OUTDOOR CIRCULATION

 The circulation should be with minimum movement to go the destination.

 Separate provision for different entries should be provided to go to different games
block and separate parking.
 One should not follow the long way to go to one corner.
 Stairs should be provided for each block with the toilets and refreshments
 Public should not go to through player’s entry
 Many aisles should be provided to go down the sitting to reduce movement.

ROAD CIRCULATION

 Roads should be well linked to each block and in case of events, different routes can be
followed without disturbing VIP and player’s routes.

INDOOR CIRCULATION

Indoor circulation should be like that separate routes for toilets/entries etc. for players
and separate for public should be provided.
 Player’s entry can be used as public exit in peak hours like in event’s day, except
providing more entries for public.
External Routes and Pathways
It is essential that sports facilities are designed to ensure that access for people with
disabilities is considered in terms of the site and not just within the building itself.
Accordingly, sports facility designers are required to meet standards of good practice in
relation to the design of parking facilities, setting-down points, external pathways and
entrances. To allow for easy, unrestricted movement on external routes by the public,
including people with disabilities, accessible paths of a high standard should be provided
between the following areas:
 From bus/rail stops, near to or within the site, to the entrance.
 From the public highway to the entrance.
 From accessible car parking bays to the entrance.
 From the setting-down point to the entrance. Recommended Standards
 Pathways leading to the entrance and on escape routes should be a minimum of
2000mm wide.

ENTRANCE

Entrance and Entrance Doors It is generally envisaged that sports facilities will be used at
least occasionally by people using sports wheelchairs with cambered wheels, therefore
facility providers will be required to install doors of the width and type specified in Table
1 of this guide: Minimum Entrance Door Width.

Accessible Parking Bays

Lobbies

 Where lobbies are provided in sports facilities they should be sizeable, to permit a wheelchair
user and a companion to rest clear of door swings. This will also assist parents with pushchairs,
persons accompanied by assistance dogs and people using mobility aids/scooters.
 Lobbies used by sports wheelchair users should have a minimum length 2000mm clear from any
leading edge of doors (2500mm preferred) and a minimum 2000mm clear width (2500mm
preferred)

Visitor Reception

The reception should be designed to provide good access for all. The reception counter should be
in sight of the entrance and identifiable by people who are partially sighted.

• The approach to the reception area should be direct, free from obstacles and be minimum
2000mm wide.
• A reception counter with an upper and lower section should be provided to facilitate visitors and
staff who wish to stand or sit, including wheelchair users and people who are small in stature. See
Figure 3 of this guide: Visitor Reception.
• The lower counter section should be located in a prominent position. • Provide a hearing
enhancement system. See Section 6.3 of this guide: Hearing Enhancement Systems.

Corridor and Pasageway

Corridors and passageways within sports facilities should be wide enough to accommodate people
with disabilities, including within sports facilities where sports wheelchair users and medium to
large groups of people with disabilities use facilities at the same time. Accordingly, the
recommended minimum width of corridors has been set at a high level as outlined in Table 2 of
this guide: Recommended Minimum Corridor Width.

 Corridors and passageways should be clutter free circulation routes. Fire extinguishers and hoses,
radiators and other objects should not project into the clear corridor width, as they present a
potential hazard to people who are blind or partially sighted. It is recommended that such objects
be recessed, however if unavoidable, hazard protection is necessary.
 Glazing at the end of corridors and passageways should be avoided.
 Where circulation routes are sub-divided by a series of fire doors the provision of electro-
magnetic hold backs should be provided.
Accessible Spectator/Viewing Facilities

Where provision is made for spectating at a sports facility, people with disabilities should be
considered. Spectators with disabilities should have a choice of accessible vantage points and
should have the opportunity to sit with a companion, or within a larger group.

 The design of bleacher seating and rebound screens should be considered where temporary
spectator seating is provided e.g. raised (dais) platform and ramp section integrated into the lower
sections of the retractable unit to create elevated wheelchair viewing - which can be fixed to
extended bleacher.

Exit Routes
The safe evacuation of all people is an essential element of sports facility design and management.
Accessible exit routes and accessible final points of exit will assist people with disabilities to make
their way safely out of a sports facility, including external routes to Fire Assembly Points.

Egress
The safe evacuation of people with disabilities (who may have a broad range of need and abilities)
is essential to successful sports facility design and management. Egress design will include
features such as: fire signage and lighting; refuges (‘safe areas’); horizontal and vertical means of
escape; circulation routes; final points of exit; Fire Assembly Points etc.

 Clear signage is essential for identification and wayfinding in relation to egress and should be
designed and considered as part of the overall schedule, both internally and externally.
 Visual and audible communication is required internally and externally to assist people with
disabilities e.g. within refuges and at Fire Assembly Points. Lift telecoms should be linked to a
central control point.
 Risk assessment and ongoing review is required in relation to all aspects of fire safety design.

Orientation Of Outdoor Facilities

North/south orientation is generally desirable for outdoor courts to avoid background glare at dawn
or dusk. Orientation should also take into consideration other structures and features on the site,
neighboring property, vehicle and pedestrian traffic, and prevailing winds.

 When installing all track and field facilities, careful consideration must be given to the position
of the sun at critical times of day and the wind conditions.
 To avoid the dazzling effect of the sun when it is low, the longitudinal axis of arenas should lie
along the north- south axis, although it is possible to deviate to the north- north- east and north-
north- west.  This may result in the main straight being on the eastern side of the arena and will
require consideration of the effects of a western setting sun on the spectators in the main stand.
However, the most important aspect of design is to ensure that the best possible competition
conditions are provided for the athletes.
  In outdoor pools, best practice suggests that springboards and platforms are recommended to
face north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere.
 In shooting sports and archery, outdoor ranges should be constructed so that the sun is behind the
shooter as much as possible. The orientation of an archery range in the southern hemisphere
generally requires the shooting line to be on the north side of the range and the targets are on the
north side”, with a tolerance allowance from the magnetic north of +/- 20 degrees. This is to allow
the sun to be behind the archers most of the day.
 Lawn bowling greens must be located away from tall buildings and trees that may cast shadows
over the bowling surface, thereby affecting turf performance. This is not relevant for synthetic
surfaces.
 Cricket pitches must run approximately north/south to minimize the risk of batsmen or bowlers
facing a low sun.
 Tennis courts must be oriented with play along an approximate north/ south axis.
 A north- south court orientation is preferred in basketball and netball to minimize the effects of
sun glare.

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Development Controls
COMPUTATIONS AS PER DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS

TLA 17872.37 sqm

USA (50%)8936.185 sqm
ISA (30%) 5361.711 sqm
TOSL (80%) 14297.896 sqm
PSO (20%) 3574.474 sqm
AMBF 13574.4 sqm
Classifications: I-1 PRE

Lot Technical Bearings

Points Bearing Distance

1-2 N 48D 29’ E 154.02 M
2-3 S 40D 43’ E 48.89 M
3-4 S 6D 59’ E 13.14 M
4-5 S 48D 29’ W 55.69 M
5-6 S 40D 43’ E 113.85 M
6-7 S 69D 35’ W 96.61 M
139.97
7-1 N 40D 43’ W

Major Road : Along Point 1-2 (15 M. RROW)

Minor Road: Along Point 7-1 (12 M. RROW)

Case Study of Community Sports Facility in the Philippines

CASE STUDY : VERMOSA SPORTS HUB A MODERN SUBURBAN COMMUNITY THAT PROMOTES
A BALANCED AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLE

The Vermosa Sports Hub formally called as Ayala Vermosa Sports hub is a cutting-edge, professionally run
sports complex that is currently accessible to the general public. It is intended to serve as both the ideal location
for domestic and international sporting events in the Philippines as well as the top training site for amateur and
professional athletes.
With Vermosa, Ayala Land introduces the first mixed-use destination of its kind that encourages an active way
of life. The 700-hectare estate in Cavite City unites residential, commercial, and retail areas in a single location
that is supported by sports and exercise facilities.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

The AVSH is intended to be a top training facility for amateur and professional athletes with its
olympicstandard facilities. It is also set up and furnished to serve as a location for regional, national, and
international sporting events. A Sports Science Lab run by Sante International will also debut at Vermosa Sports
Hub, marking a first for the nation. For ambitious athletes, it will be the first sports science facility to offer
comprehensive fitness training programmes and physical conditioning services.
ACCESSIBILITY
Thanks to a number of road links, including Daang Hari Road, SLEX via the Muntinlupa-Cavite Expressway
(MCX), CAVITEX, and the forthcoming CALAX Road, Vermosa is conveniently reachable from Makati,
Manila, Muntinlupa, and even Tagaytay, all of which are less than an hour away. It has three access points
through Aguinaldo Highway, two at Molino Road, and one at Jose Abad Santos. The proposed LRT 6 that will
pass through Daang Hari road also adds to the accessibility of Vermosa.

SPORTS HUB FEATURES

 AQUATIC CENTER 10-lane, FINA-standard Olympic size swimming pool. Equipped with the latest anti-
wave starting blocks and an Omega timing system
 TRACK AND FIELD OVAL A 9-lane, IAAF-certified 400m nine-track running oval. the track oval was
“built in accordance with the International Association of Athletics Federations standards.”

 FOOTBALL FIELD A standard-sized football pitch with natural grass and a sand sub-base are meant for
football fanatics. The field and other open areas are also available for other field sports.

 FITNESS LABORATORY Vermosa Sports Hub will also open a Sports Science Lab operated by Sante
International, a first for the country. It will be the first sports science facility to provide complete fitness training
programs and physical conditioning services for aspiring athletes.
 FITNESS TRAIL a 3.5km enhanced mountain bike trail, and a hybrid supercross/motocross track with a
variety of terrains.

SUSTAINABILITY

The first phase of the residential developments has already started since 2014, and the Bike Night Carnival in
May 2016 at the Vermosa Sports & Lifestyle Complex demonstrated the facility's readiness to host major
international athletic events. Vermosa is a distinctive master-planned mixed-use location that combines
residential, retail, commercial, and institutional spaces with an addition of sports and recreation facilities.
Almost 60% of the 700 hectares are designated for residential use, with the remaining 24% being open, green
spaces that contribute to the suburban appeal. 16 percent of the land is designated for business and institutional
purposes, including the sizable Vermosa Sports & Lifestyle Complex. At Vermosa, you’re never far from city
comforts and living essentials. The estate hosts De La Salle Zobel’s new Cavite campus, with access to state-of-
the-art tech facilities, and a transient retail area that will soon give way to a 13-hectare Ayala Malls Vermosa,
not more than 10 minutes away from any of the estate’s stylish residential properties. Vermosa’s 67-hectare
North Central Business District, promises a sustainable city core, with 25 hectares of lush green areas amidst
high-rise commercial developments. The AVSH can be a venue to the following events and activities:

 Training ground of amateur and professional athletes

 Preferred venue for national and international sports events in the Philippines.
 Lifestyle and wellness activities
 Team-building activities For large enterprises and other institutions.
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