St Peters - Sports Complex Auckland
Education
Location: Auckland
Architect: Architectus
Completion Date: June 2011
eCubed Duties – ESD Specialist, Mechanical, Electrical Specialist Lighting and AV consultants and Hydraulics on this prestigious project. With a capex of $5m. completed in June 2011.
The sports complex provides a space which can accommodate basketball, volleyball and badminton courts to club standard, with necessary ancillary facilities as well as two classrooms.
The hall is conceptually an open-ended vault. Solid concrete walls are used as the flanks of the building, providing acoustic protection from the adjacent road and supported laterally by pre-cast buttresses at regular intervals. Spanning between the walls is a series of trusses supporting the roof of the hall. The east and west ends of the gym are as transparent as possible.
Awards:
NZIA Auckland Architecture Award – Education 2012
