
Sport Center
Project
Sport Center
Location
Kayseri, Turkey
Year
2024
Designers
İnci Shoainia, Emil Shoainia
This project is designed as a multi-purpose sports center with a capacity of approximately 400 users, proposed to be located in Kayseri. The structure is conceived not merely as a sports facility, but as a social hub that remains active throughout the day, thanks to its permeable ground floor design that establishes a strong connection with urban life and its front square integrated with public open spaces. The transparent and fluid spaces at ground level blur the boundaries between spectators, athletes, and city dwellers, functioning as foyers, event areas, and daily use spaces.
The minimalist mass located at the upper level incorporates flexible spatial organizations that can adapt to different sports disciplines; the uses of the grandstand, training area, and multi-purpose hall can be transformed according to changing scenarios. The structure's design is shaped through continuity and movement, reflecting the dynamic nature of sport; the visual and physical relationships established between interior and exterior spaces make the user a part of a continuous flow.
The project treats architecture not merely as a shell that houses, but as an infrastructure that produces and makes visible movement; this approach, integrated with urban life, offers a contemporary spatial proposal that reveals the collective and public potential of sport.

