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Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre
Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre
Hamilton, Canada
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Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre
Hamilton, Canada
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The Bernie Morelli Recreation Center is designed to create a unified environment that not only links to existing structures on site but also joins the site to neighboring attractions. The Center, occupying the sites northeast corner, adjoins to the heritage Jimmy Thompson Memorial Pool along its southeast edge, forming a continuous façade along the new east-facing elevation. Together, Center and Pool occupy a hockey stick–shaped footprint that wraps around parking to the south; while to the north, it frames an outdoor recreation area visually contiguous with the large plaza outside the adjacent Tim Hortons Field (CFL Stadium).
Alongside existing facilities, the Center expands the area’s recreation amenities into a fully rounded health and wellness district at the heart of the city, making a healthy lifestyle accessible to a broad range of local users. Within the new Center are a leisure pool, a multi-use gymnasium and walking track, rentable rooms and activity rooms including dedicated youth and seniors’ spaces, and a commercial kitchen, café and lounge with views overlooking exterior program elements. Outside, the Center offers a park space that connects it to both the Pool and the secondary school that shares the site, as well as a summer splash pad that doubles as a winter skating loop.
The Center’s glazed perimeter circulation offers excellent visual connection from the interior to the exterior; extended vertically to the upper storeys, this glazing offers strategic visual connections between the Center and the existing facility. Here, uninterrupted access reaches all the way from parking to the wheelchair viewing platforms of the pool’s upper seating level. This extensive glazing, combined with over 645 square feet of skylights, ensures optimal daylighting throughout the interior, significantly drawing down electrical demands and offering views to the sky throughout the building.
Alongside existing facilities, the Center expands the area’s recreation amenities into a fully rounded health and wellness district at the heart of the city, making a healthy lifestyle accessible to a broad range of local users. Within the new Center are a leisure pool, a multi-use gymnasium and walking track, rentable rooms and activity rooms including dedicated youth and seniors’ spaces, and a commercial kitchen, café and lounge with views overlooking exterior program elements. Outside, the Center offers a park space that connects it to both the Pool and the secondary school that shares the site, as well as a summer splash pad that doubles as a winter skating loop.
The Center’s glazed perimeter circulation offers excellent visual connection from the interior to the exterior; extended vertically to the upper storeys, this glazing offers strategic visual connections between the Center and the existing facility. Here, uninterrupted access reaches all the way from parking to the wheelchair viewing platforms of the pool’s upper seating level. This extensive glazing, combined with over 645 square feet of skylights, ensures optimal daylighting throughout the interior, significantly drawing down electrical demands and offering views to the sky throughout the building.
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