Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel, Loughborough University
- Status
- Completed 2019
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £43m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Architect and Lead Consultant
- Scale
- 20,390m²
The Elite Athlete Centre is a world-class venue promoting rest, relaxation, nutrition and sporting excellence. Set in the heart of Loughborough University’s world-leading sports facilities, this inspiring high-performance environment offers aspirational space for athletes to be the best they can be.
- Status
- Completed 2019
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £43m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Architect and Lead Consultant
- Scale
- 20,390m²
The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel is the first and only hotel in the UK designed specifically for athletes. It has been designed to incorporate purpose-built accommodation, altitude living and nutritional facilities, and sits as a part of a new student village with buildings and landscape working together to promote active lifestyles.
The buildings feature fully flexible spaces at ground level, allowing the university to adapt uses over time to suit its evolving needs. Currently configured as retail and amenity spaces, they can be easily converted to provide additional accommodation or ancillary spaces.
Courtyards between buildings provide active spaces for students. Buildings sit perpendicular to slope of topography, helping to maximise solar penetration into courtyards and minimise overshadowing, whilst providing a more gradual approach to the landscape by minimising steep slopes. Top floor of blocks stepped back to further enhance this and minimise the apparent mass of the residential blocks.