Athletic Business - Cleveland State University Recreation Center

Cleveland State University Recreation Center

Cleveland, OH

Year in Showcase: 2008

Project Description

The goal for the design of this recreation center was to create a “building without walls,” one that gives people inside and out views of activity and counteracts the perception that the campus is composed of unwelcoming concrete buildings. The center now serves as a catalyst for a renewed focus on student life.

The interior design hinges on an open circulation atrium that allows natural daylight to penetrate all levels of the facility while providing views between activity spaces, and from one side of the building to the other. The building connects to an existing athletic facility on an urban site, and the open atrium enhances both circulation and security.

Daylight filters into the main gymnasium, elevated running track, multipurpose court, multipurpose rooms and connective free zones through several skylights, roof monitors and clerestories.

The exterior massing is broken into components and responds to the pedestrian and vehicular scales of the campus and the streetscape. Exterior materials consist of red brick, buff brick, aluminum panels and trim with clear and fritted glass.

Project Details

Architect of Record: Weber Murphy Fox

Associated Firm:

Construction Cost: $29.8 million

Square Feet: 130,000

Occupancy: August 2006

Vendors

Basketball Backboards/Supports: Spalding

Court Panels/Glass: Court Co., The

Divider Curtains: American Athletic Inc.

Divider Curtains: Spalding

Elliptical Equipment: Cybex International Inc.