Multipurpose Recreation Facilities Require Design Considerations

Multipurpose. Multifunctional. Multiuse. These terms fly about in athletic facility design circles like tennis balls across a net. Sure, you can raise the basketball goals and put up the volleyball net, or open everything up and stick a couple of goals at the ends of the gym, but is that all it takes to be multipurpose?

Multipurpose. Multifunctional. Multiuse. These terms fly about in athletic facility design circles like tennis balls across a net. Sure, you can raise the basketball goals and put up the volleyball net, or open everything up and stick a couple of goals at the ends of the gym, but is that all it takes to be multipurpose?

Although those types of conversions are common, there is a different way, a deeper and much more rewarding way, to develop a stronger relationship between a space and its variety of users. Perhaps there are ways to not only accommodate, but actually enhance, the experience of each user group.

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