California architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a central structure for a sports complex in Florida with a sloped concrete shell designed to "make a spectacle of rainfall".
The Field House at Pompano Beach's Youth Sports Complex is a 4,100-square-foot (380-square-metre) structure that holds concessions and offices for the surrounding sports fields. It also features signage for the sports complex and has storage for the various facilities.
Brooks + Scarpa has created a concessions building for a sports complex in Florida
The Field House consists of a glass building wrapped with a board-formed concrete shell, which forms a wrap-around porch with a yellow-painted metal lattice on the north elevation.
The concrete shell protects the internal glass structure ? where the offices and storage are located ? and the outdoor spaces around it. It consists of a glass building covered by a concrete pavilion
Described as "playful and sculptural" by Brooks + Scarpa, the shell slopes down towards the ground at points with large openings formed between the ground linkages.
The roof of the shell slopes down gently towards a central point, from which water is funneled by gutters into an adjacent rain garden, to capitalise on the heavy precipitation in Pompano Beach, a municipality north of Fort Lauderdale.
It slopes downwards towards a central point where rainwater is collected
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