Transition Extreme Sports Centre, Aberdeen
2008
The new £2.7 million Transition Extreme Sports Centre in Aberdeen, which opened at Easter 2007, provides a multi use, state of the art recreation facility designed to provide the toughest of challenges to experienced climbers, bikers and skate boarders. At the same time, the new centre has been developed to appeal to families and people new to the world of extreme sports.
The centre piece of the stunning purpose built new centre is an 18,000 ft² indoor skate park, which has been carefully designed for use by skate boarders and BMX bikers, as well as in-line skaters. Alongside the skate park building, a Mountain Club of Scotland regionally accredited 6,000 ft² climbing centre provides challenges for the most experienced of climbers in a safe environment suitable for learners of all ages that are new to the sport. A large spectator area can also double as a stage for concerts and exhibitions, while a café and recreation area offers four sport retail outlets, pool, games, and music and video facilities.
Creating the right environments for such activities means thinking in volume and to wide spans. The skate park needed a wide span, naturally lit, column free facility, while the climbing building called for height as well as light. Architecturally, expressed as two large volumes, the structure’s signature curved roofs sit over the steel clad building to give it an elegant individual distinction.
Fact file
Client
Transition Extreme
Architect
Kenny Alexander Architects Ltd
Cladding Contractor
E-Clad Ltd
Corus Panels and Profiles Products
Roofs: Self curved and factory curved R40 insulated roof. Walls to skateboarding building: Horizontal Arcline insulated walls. Walls to climbing wall building: vertical 13.5/3 sinusoidal walls
Colorcoat® Products
Colorcoat HPS200® in Goosewing Grey (roof), Colorcoat HPS200® in Hamlet (walls)
