This new leisure centre houses a pool hall, fitness suite, café, and associated office and changing-room facilities.
The pool hall: (learner and an adult pool)
- A precast concrete structure
- Rectangular in plan with a timber roof.
- Wrapped around it on two sides is a second, steel framed building, L-shaped in plan, clad in masonry and timber. This houses ancillary facilities.
- The timber roof a span of 19 m. The architect was keen to achieve a flat soffit with as few joins as possible. Our solution involves the use of bespoke prefabricated glulam and Kerto units a full 19 m long and 1.8 m wide, craned into place and waterproofed on site.
Bracing the pool hall structure posed a challenge, particularly as the exposed elevation is extensively glazed. Two rows of precast concrete columns, cantilevered off the ground floor slab, provide the necessary stability.
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