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LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC VENUES PART 3 - Basketball Arena

gulfnews.com | Monday, July 23, 2012| Gulf News Gulf News | Monday, July 23, 2012| gulfnews.com OLYMPIC VENUES PART 3 BASKETBALL ARENA A design to remember Designed . arc frame PVC. membrane Although the main concept of the Basketball Arena is the portability, achieving a solid design was an important concern in the organisers' agenda. After exploring several options, they finally got an elegant solution - an opaque PVC membrane, restrained over designed arc frames attached to the main steel structure sections. Riverbank Arena shows its colours Three points for largest venue Venue for field hockey and Paralympic football is both innovative and inspiring Main Massive portability The Basketball Arena is one of the largest temporary venues ever built for a Games, with an impressive potential for reuse. The portable venue will be one of the busiest during the games, with competitions taking place almost every day. structure 35m LONDON By ALARIC GOMES Senior Reporter Side view After the Olympics, Basketball Arena – this venue is the former Millennium Dome – will be used for the Commonwealth Games to be held in 2014 115m 1he temporary Riverbank Arena situated at Hack- ney in east London is the venue for field hockey and Paralympic football inside the Olympic Park. This innova- tive and inspiring venue will boast its Olympic pride with a colour scheme designed replicate that of London 2012. With a bright blue playing field surrounded by pink, this will be the first time either sport has competed in the Games on anything other than the tra- ditional green. The Riverbank Arena was built with two ven- ues with capacities of 15,000 and 5,000 respectively with an estimated budget of £19 million (Dh109 million). Black and orange seating- designed to represent the colours of a basketball The arena is big enough to acommodate a Boeing 747 jet. DUBAI By HUGO A. SANCHEZ 3D modeller & Lights and scoreboards are hired out infographic artist and ÅLARIC GOMES Senior Reporter to T. he handball events will take place at the Bas- ketball Arena which will enjoy some rapid transformations Courtesy: planning.london2012.com of Media zone Breaking with tradition - With a bright blue playing field surrounded by pink, this will be the first time either sport has competed in the Games on anything other than the traditional green. its own over the course of the summer with quick turna- rounds in both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Basketball will take place at venue from July 28 till Au- gust 7 before the sports trans- fer off the Olympic Park for its closing rounds to the North Greenwich Arena with the medal rounds on August 11 and 12 sure to be full of a plethora of 12,000 seats split into two tiers this Scaled down The first venue is to be used for competition and the sec- ond one primarily as a warm- up area. After the conclusion of the Olympic Games the venue will be scaled down to a 5,000 seat arena and a train- ing pitch and moved north to Eton Manor. Last year, Leyton Orient FC expressed an inter est in moving into the Hockey Centre after the Games. The stadium is also scheduled NBA stars. This venue is the former Mil- lennium Dome, which is also hosting the gymnastics' artis- tic and trampoline disciplines. The Basketball Arena will have 12,000 seats for Olympic bas- ketball and the semi-finals and finals of the Olympic handball, and 10,000 pic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The arena is also to be used as a holding area for athletes during the Opening and Clos- ing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games. to host the 2015 European Hockey Championships. The first event held at the stadium was a test event, a men's and women's invitational hockey tournament in May 2012. for the Paralym- On the move - After the conclusion of the Olympic Games the venue will be scaled down to a 5,000 seat arena and a training pitch and moved north to Eton Manor. The work to build the arena started Below the seating bowl are located the venue facilities that include lifts, toilet blocks and VIP lounges. in October 2009. The giant steel frame was set up in less than three months during spring 2010. The construction was completed in June 2011, making it the quickest Olympic Park facility to be finished. Largest Concept designs by Wilkin- Eyre Architects were agreed in June 2008 and a plan- ning application was submitted in November 2008. This will be a temporary venue, and the largest built for any Games, and after the Olympics, it will be used for the Commonwealth Games to be Restored to former glory son PVC membrane Innovative new materials have been developed by the suppliers. They have eliminated the harmful components of the PVC cover, but still preserve the functional requirements. Artistic canvas Eton Manor in Leyton fell into disuse in 2001 before being selected for use during Games be relocated from further 20,000 m2 is the surface covered by the PVC membrane, streched over three variations of designed arc frames. The cladding was cut into strips for easy installation and can be re-ground into pellets for During the Games, the exterior will be iluminated to obtain a dramatic look during the night. The concept was designed in collaboration with a creative lighting team - the idea to project colour lights inside the PVC cladding, will give the venue an artistic feel. held in 2014. There is a huge possibility of subsequently de-constructing the arena and transporting it to Rio de Janeiro for the hosting of the Summer Olympics in 2016. However, for the moment this plan has been shelved due to doubts from some Brazilian officials about its feasibility. south in the Olympic Park. In 2010, the board of Eng- land Hockey put in a bid to host the FIH Men's and Women's World Cups at the same time in 2014. But both competitions were award- ed to Utrecht, with the world governing body for hockey promising London a chance to hold an event in 2015 or 2016. Eton Manor takes its name from Eton reuse. LONDON By ALARIC GOMES Senior Reporter Steel structure The use of bolting of steel rather than welding to join the metal sections increases the reuse and recycling level. The total weight of the metal skeleton is: I ton Manor is a sports and leisure venue situated in Leyton, the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Located at the northern-most area of the Queen Elizabeth Olym- pic Park, the venue also has a blue ground and is sched- uled to play host to wheel- chair tennis as well as used College, which from the 1880s had run a “mission" to raise living standards in the East End of London. In 1909, four Old Etonian phi- lanthropists founded the Eton Manor Boys' Club to provide sporting facilities in the Hackney area, pur- chasing the former Manor Farm in 1913. 1,000 tonnes A 95% reusable and sustainable venue Sitting bowl The bowl is based on an orthogonal grid with constant section and 45 degree splayed corners, giving it the most economic and practical configuration. It is made of precast concrete sections. The most important factor that the Olympic Delivery Autority (ODA) had in mind for all the as training facilities for aquatics competitors. The venue will house tempo- rary training pools for par- ticipants in aquatics events, including three 50m pools for swimmers, and smaller pools for synchronised swimmers and water polo competitors. For wheel- chair tennis, there are nine competition courts and courts to warm-up. A total of 10,500 seats are in place for with “show court". Post-Olympics, Manor will house the scaled Hockey Centre that will new Olympic venues was sustainability and legacy usage. The Basketball Arena has a Metal seating structure Made of fully recyclable aluminium, supports the seating bowl and access stairs. huge potential reuse of 95% by weight and value. Each one of the components - the metal structure, the cladding, the seats and grandstands of the venue - have been designed and assembled with future reuse and avoiding material waste in the dismantling process in mind. Old rubbish tip In 1920 an old rubbish tip site was converted into the Club's new sports ground, known as The Wilderness. Facilities included nine football pitches, two rugby pitches, cricket pitches, six tennis courts, a bowl- ing green, a squash court and a running track. Eton Manor Boys' Club closed in 1967 and the Club ground fell into disuse in 2001 be- fore being selected for use during the 2012 Olympic Games. Polycarbonate Inner wall This material can be ground down and reshaped. The thin wall has insulative properties, allowing it to reduce the cooling load. Its translucid properties allow it to use color illumination over its surface to change its appearance. spectators along 5,000-capacity Reuters Gearing up - Britons Jamie Burdekin and Peter Norfolk play during a wheelchair tennis invitational test event at Eton Manor in the Olympic Park at Stratford. Even the concrete floor slab can be broken up and recycled. Eton down Olympic Sources: http://planning london2012.com, www.london2012.com, www.londonlegacy.co.uk AVA

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