PITSHANGER FOOTBALL CLUB
A two-storey clubhouse for a community-based youth football club includes ground floor changing rooms for players and officials and a glass-fronted clubroom above.
Pitshanger Football club has 300 playing members ranging in age from 7 to 18 with twenty boys and girls’ teams competing in local leagues. In an age of declining physical fitness and obesity, it plays an important role in the well-being of a large group of young people. The club commissioned Baynes and Mitchell Architects to design a new Club Centre, to provide changing, social and administrative facilities.
The building compromises two distinct parts. At ground level there are four Football Association standard changing rooms, each with toilet and shower facilities, two officials’ rooms and a kit room. At first floor level there is a large glazed club room, a small office, toilets and a servery. Together they provide the changing and social facilities required by the club. The club room will be used independently by other local groups requiring indoor space in conjunction with park-based activities. A 3.6m wide external staircase gives access to the upper floor which opens out as a 'terrace' for viewing the football.
The new building is intentionally two-storeys high in order to prevent unauthorized access onto the roof. Windows and doors are limited to the front of the building, which is 'closed' when not in use by five large steel shutters. Defense against graffiti artists and vandalism is provided by a deep border of thorny planting around most of the building perimeter.
Pitshanger Football club has 300 playing members ranging in age from 7 to 18 with twenty boys and girls’ teams competing in local leagues. In an age of declining physical fitness and obesity, it plays an important role in the well-being of a large group of young people. The club commissioned Baynes and Mitchell Architects to design a new Club Centre, to provide changing, social and administrative facilities.
The building compromises two distinct parts. At ground level there are four Football Association standard changing rooms, each with toilet and shower facilities, two officials’ rooms and a kit room. At first floor level there is a large glazed club room, a small office, toilets and a servery. Together they provide the changing and social facilities required by the club. The club room will be used independently by other local groups requiring indoor space in conjunction with park-based activities. A 3.6m wide external staircase gives access to the upper floor which opens out as a 'terrace' for viewing the football.
The new building is intentionally two-storeys high in order to prevent unauthorized access onto the roof. Windows and doors are limited to the front of the building, which is 'closed' when not in use by five large steel shutters. Defense against graffiti artists and vandalism is provided by a deep border of thorny planting around most of the building perimeter.
Client: Pitshanger Football Club
Location: Ealing, London
Status: Completed 2015
Sector: Sport, New Build
Photography: Baynes and Mitchell Architects
Location: Ealing, London
Status: Completed 2015
Sector: Sport, New Build
Photography: Baynes and Mitchell Architects