Sports complex

Abstract

Sports Complexes have great ripples that affect the environment and the neighboring areas and activities in terms of job opportunity and footfall of tourists etc. Stadiums are typically designed for a specific purpose, such as hosting sporting events or concerts. When these events are not taking place, the stadium may sit empty, resulting in limited usage and revenue generation. With changing times, people want more than just a place to watch a game, they want a unique and immersive experience that goes beyond the traditional sports event. Huge concrete and steel structures in the middle of the cities can act as major nodes and can either facilitate the overall environment or can turn into white elephants, resulting in abandonment and wastage of space, time and money. Thus in order to minimize the chances of abandonment of stadiums, architectural changes can be introduced while designing the stadiums to ensure the flow of people and thus the revenue. JawaharLal Nehru Football Stadium, Delhi and Yamuna complex, Delhi were two complexes used during Commonwealth 2010. These case studies helped me to understand the scale, spaces, structure, the movement of different users and the functioning. Literature case study includes Lords Stadium and a newly built stadium in Ahmedabad which has tried to integrate public activities on a smaller scale. The Sports complex, Sector 19, Dwarka is a DDA (Delhi Development Authority) project for a Football stadium and other popular sports activities with a 5 percent proposed area for public and commercial spaces. The significant features of the project are going to be the integration of sports stadium and public activities, newly pitched 35% for the commercial spaces and the appreciative nature of the form of stadium for the Bharat Vandana Park.