Streetmekka Copenhagen UPGRADE
2020
Copenhagen, Denmark
With Street Movement
Streetmekka CPH var det fΓΈrste af GAMEs huse som blev bygget. Tilbage i 2010 havde man ikke forudset den enorme popularitet parkour ville fΓ₯, og dermed de pladsmΓ¦ssige begrΓ¦nsninger man ville lΓΈbe ind i.
Den lille sal, som denne installation befinder sig i, bliver i dag anvendt til en rΓ¦kke forskellige formΓ₯l, og deles af bΓ₯de parkour-udΓΈvere, lΓΈbehjuls-brugere og fodboldspillere. Derfor er stort set alt inventar nΓΈdt til at vΓ¦re fleksibelt og mobilt - og det som er permanent mΓ₯ ikke forhindre opstillingen af fx en fuld basketbane med kurve og standere.
Denne permanent installerede lΓΈsning er derfor dikteret af de pladsmΓ¦ssige begrΓ¦nsninger, og smyger sig langs vΓ¦gge, hjΓΈrner og nicher. I hjΓΈrner opstΓ₯r der overlap i konstruktionen, som tilbyder alternative og mere komplekse bevΓ¦gelsesmuligheder, og langs med porte og Γ₯bninger udnyttes den ekstra dybde samt de muligheder som opstΓ₯r nΓ₯r man Γ₯bner porte og forbinder til det udendΓΈrs areal.
Designet bΓ¦rer desuden prΓ¦g af at kunne tilbyde en rΓ¦kke basale tekniske muligheder, som drager fordel af en permanent, statisk konstruktion - muligheder man ikke kan opnΓ₯ pΓ₯ samme mΓ₯de med mobile redskaber.
I tilfΓ¦lde af events kan installationerne desuden bruges til monterer prjektions-lΓ¦rreder eller bannere pΓ₯, eller kan doble som garderobestativer.
Streetmekka Copenhagen was the first GAME Streetmekka facility that was completed. Back in 2010 no-one had any idea of the popularity parkour would continue to have and thus space-issues soon started to show.
The small gym, in which this installation is located, accommodates a number of activities, ranging from parkour, to scooters, soccer and the occasional event. That means all equipment must have a high degree of mobility and flexibility - and anything permanently installed cannot incroach on the necessary floorspace for fx a basketball court including hoops and stanchions.
This solution is thus dictated by strict spatial restrictions and flows close along the walls, corners and niches. Where the construction overlaps in the corners, more complex movement opportunities arise and at gates and openings the extra depth is utilized with and without opening up the doors and connectiong to the outdoor space.
The design caters to a number of basic technical movements that require a more static and solid structure - qualities you canβt similarly achieve with mobile structures alone.
When the space is occasionally used for larger events, the structures double as mounting options for projection screens or banners, or function as clothing racks.