SportPark Pavilions 1-3
- Status
- Current Phase Due to Complete 2022
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £14m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Lead Designer and Architect from Conception to Completion
- Scale
- 7,992m²
Awards
- British Council for Offices Awards,
2011 – Regional Winner
- RICS Award for Sustainability 2011
- East Midlands - Finalist
SportPark, the multi award-winning office development designed by David Morley Architects for the UK’s sports sector at Loughborough University, is the new home for the National Governing Bodies (NGB’s) of many sports. The scheme provides a state-of-the-art environment enabling the NGB’s to share information and produce innovative approaches to best practice.
- Status
- Current Phase Due to Complete 2022
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £14m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Lead Designer and Architect from Conception to Completion
- Scale
- 7,992m²
Awards
- British Council for Offices Awards,
2011 – Regional Winner
- RICS Award for Sustainability 2011
- East Midlands - Finalist
The first phase, completed in 2009 on Loughborough University’s Science and Enterprise Park, consists of three pavilions linked with glazed circulation spaces. The innovative scheme creates a naturally lit, naturally ventilated environment that connects people with the active landscape and forms an integrated place to work and play. The break out areas are varied and include small scale sports facilities and an outdoor sprint track. The stream that runs through this part of the campus has been incorporated into the design and given space to flourish in order to encourage biodiversity.
With sustainability and sport at its core, SportPark has already achieved an ‘excellent’ rating from BREEAM, the global environmental assessment mark.
Work has recently been completed for the second phase to create a fourth pavilion to expand SportPark, and was finished in April 2023.
Reception Area
“SportPark is positively buzzing. I can tell from talking to people but also looking and feeling what it’s like, that by bringing people together, it’s creating excitement and activity between the different sports that couldn’t have happened otherwise. The sort of work that’s going on at Loughborough University is an example not just to this sector but many others. I’m interested in improving people’s health and SportPark is going to make a huge contribution to that. SportPark really is the place to be.”
The pavilions radiate outwards creating a focal point at the entrance to the west, while to the east creating courtyards between the pavilions. This allows light and air to enter the office accommodation, whilst the stepped height and radiating form naturally provides the building interior to be integrated with the external landscape, reinforced with vistas through generous glazed elements to the courtyards between the pavilions, gardens and the parkland setting.
Office
Boardroom
