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THE METROPOLITAN GYMNASIUM, TOKYO, JAPAN

Fig.1 Gymnasium Complex (exterior perspective.)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium is located on a site of 45,000sq. metre,

bordered to the north by a raised expressway and a railway station, to the west and
south by a small condominium and office buildings. and to the east by the
national stadium.
The site area, although generous by Japanese urban standards, have to satisfy
an ambitious program that called for doubling the floor area of the old facility.
It includes:
a. The main arena with a seating capacity of 10.000
b. The sub-arena
c. A physical fitness centre
d. Indoor swimming pool with spectator seating for 900
e. Support facilities including training and meeting rooms, sports exhibition
space. expanded administration spaces, and a restaurant.

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This sports complex is open to all metropolitan citizens Fig, 8.17 Swimming
Pavilion and serves as a stage for both international and national indoor sporting
events.
Because of its location in a park, there is a demand for the gymnasium not to
exceed a height of 30 metres. The solution is a tightly integrated complex, but an
illusion of structures standing independently in an open space which is created by
a pedestrian deck built over the circulation areas and some of the minor athletic
spaces. To meet the building height restriction, the floor of the main arena has
been sunken 6 metre below the ground level at the north-western corner of the
site. The result is that at deck level much of the total building volume is hidden,
leaving visibly only the roofs and upper portions of the major spaces.
There is considerable through traffic on the pedestrian deck, and people also
come just to sit and relax. especially at lunch hour. The circulation path over the
site has been designed much like a traditional Japanese stroll garden, and. as an
observer moves over the deck. new scenes unfold continuously. At no single point
is the complex revealed in its entirety, and the shape of the main arena contributes
to this drama.

Fig.2 Gymnasium Complex (exterior perspective.)

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QUESTIONAIRE PROPER
PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS HONESTLY AND LEGIBLY.
THANK YOU. (Please fill in the blanks for the direct questions and place check marks
on those with provided choices.)

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Address:

Have you seen the present conditions of the Gym?

____ Yes
____ No

Is there a need to relocate and redesign the Peoples Gymnasium?

____ Yes
____ No

What would you prefer as a character of the Gymnasium?

____ Modern
____ Historical
____ Cagayan Identity

If there are suggestions please write below

QUESTIONAIRE PROPER

Here are list of facilities that could help improve the function of the Gymnasium,
_____

Mini Park

_____

Car Parking Area

_____ Vehicle Loading and Unloading bays

_____

Food and Beverages Catering Facilities

_____

Outdoor Basketball courts

_____

Health Center

_____

Multi-purpose Building

_____

Children's Playground

_____

Security check points and Waiting sheds

Do you agree with the reconstruction of the Gymnasium?

_____ YES
_____ NO

Please add any further comments you would like to make with regards to the
redevelopment of the Peoples Gymnasium.

THANKYOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION

"MABBALONIKAMU"

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS TUGUEGARAO CITY
S.Y. 2016-2017

THESIS STUDY REPORT:

PROPOSED NEW DESIGN OF TUGUEGARAO CITY'S

PEOPLES GYMNASIUM
(A RELOCATION & MODERN DESIGN PROJECT)

Prepared by:
Raymar Balisi Arabes
M.2016
Research Instructor:
Ar. Ma. Eleanor Lucero , U.A.P

INTRODUCTIO
N

A gymnasium is a place of sports gaming like other recreational facilities,

where people enhances their social interactions through participating in a public

games with other people. Thus, players do socialize with them. There are many
kinds of benefits of playing different kinds of sports. It involves pleasure, and
encourages the emergence of a positive role model and promotes physical heath.
Nowadays many people with different age are drawn on playing basketball
especially because we are filipinos, and we can't deny that many of us are fund of
watching PBA and NBA players doing their tricks inside the court and we enjoy
watching the excitement of a last quarter scores. What some teenagers and even
children's as young as ten years old do, is they brought their on basketball with
them and they go place to place asking other players to come play with them. in
that way they could socialize with each other instead of being indulged to
addiction of different kinds of drugs .
This research attempts to support good lively hood and contribute in the
development of Tuguegarao City.
Whether we admit it or not, the City's long-time functioning gymnasium is
in the a bad shape. Vandals , concrete breakage in different corners of it and other
criminal elements have used it at one time or another as a stop-over for their
nefarious activities in the past.
In the past decades of continous usage, the building's proper maintenance
had began to deteriorate. But there were developments led by the local
government to maintain its good condition. However , this was not enough to

satisfy the needs and demands of the people as volume of population grow
iin the community.
The City Peoples Gymnasium was one of the attractions of the province
then. It has since graced various Cagayan tourism promotion magazines and
newspapers back then. In short, it was a tourism attraction by itself and like the

Cagayan Sports Complex, locals and visitors could not resist the lure of visiting
and watching important events such as exhibition games of known PBA players.
Dim-lighted, old equipments and with no assigned maintenance, the
lawless elements of the building made its reputation shun down. With growing
number of vehicles and lack required parking spaces for the users cousses traffic
and conjunction every time an event is help there. With this problems
redevelopment of such needs to be define.
This early, it is already identified features of the gymnasium which are needed of
immediate solutions.

THESIS ABSTRACT

In this hectic and bustling world, people are obliged to donate most of
their time in work and commuting, leave very limited time for sports and
other recreational activities. As time is the critical factor, in order to facilitate
more users, locating the sports complex in the urban district within
proximity of the working population is the rational approach. In addition,
the buildings should encompass as rich varieties as possible the different

kinds of sports & recreational facilities so that it can well serve the public of
different tastes, ages and genders.
The thesis is to relocate the Tuguegarao's Peoples Gymnasium from a
minimum

scale multi-purpose sports building into a recreational semi-

complex facility within the busy commercial district of municipality. Through

the design, the researcher intends to develop a design typology for sport
complex in a urban component city such as Tuguegarao, and provide a
venue that is truly suitable to enjoy by the general public of Cagayan.

PROJECT TITLE: " PROPOSED NEW DESIGN OF TUGUEGARAO CITY'S

PEOPLES GYMNASIUM"
PROJECT PROPONENT: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT"
PROJECT LOCATION: BALAO STREET, CENTRO 10
MUNICIPALITY OF TUGUEGARAO CITY
CAGAYAN VALLEY

OBJECTIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT

The mentioned deficiencies are the factors which is indeed planning for a
redevelopment. However, this will only be a partial one involving an addition of
another building or facilities to make up for the insufficient space. This is another

piece-meal treatment which cannot solve the fundamental problems such as

confusing master layout, deteriorating existing old buildings etc.
Sport relieves tension & anxiety from hectic city life. Practicing sport invokes
pleasures and, reinvigoration & promotes physical health. Sport enhances social
interaction, Through participating in a public game with others, the player also
socializes with them. Sporting achievement helps to develop self-esteem, reduces
anti- social behavior and promotes physical fitness. Provides constructive uses for
leisure time Encourages the emergence of positive role mode

DESIGN INTENTIONS
The design intentions of the development are of the
following:
1. To design a sports facility within a dense urban site
which could be a prototype for similar situations.
2. To provide an excellent environment with updated
facilities for sports and recreation for both the competition
players and leisure players.
3. By providing more entertainment areas and support
facilities, encouraging all the family to go and enjoy the place.
4. To integrate the mini-complex into its context.
COVERAGE AND SCOPE OF THE PROJECT PROPOSAL
The coverage and the scope of the proposal includes the following:
1. Physical and Landscape development
2. Provision of enough recreation and facilities for the project.
3.Utility facilities like drainage and lights for the whole proposed site location.

4. Study of the entrances and exits doors and gates of the location in relation to
its adjacency to the street.
5. The proposed project shall be designed in conformity with the required
provision of standards of the NBC.

SCHEDULE OF FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

RECOMMENDED FUNCTIONAL AREAS
1. MAIN COURT
2. VIEWING BENCHES
3. LOBBY
4. WAITING AREA
5. FRONT STAGE
6. COMMERCIAL STALLS
7. CONTROL ROOM
8. PUBLIC ENTRANCES AND EXITS
9. PUBLIC COMFORT ROOMS
10. EQUIPMENT STORAGE
11. PLAYERS LOCKER ROOMS
12. PLAYERS COMFORT ROOMS
13.PLAYERS PRIVATE ENTRANCES
14. EMERGENCY EXITS
15. STAFF QUARTERS
FUNCTIONAL AREAS FOR THE WHOLE SITE
1. PARK AND PLAYGROUND
2. OUTDOOR COURTS FOR LEISURE PLAYERS
3. OUTDOOR SUPPORT BUILDINGS
4. LOADING AND UNLOADING BAYS
5. COVERED WALKS
6. WAITING SHEDS
7. VEHICLE PARKING AREA
8. FENCING
9. HEALTH CLINIC
10. FOOD AND BEVEREGE FACILITIES

THE ISSUES
Significance of the Sports

Sport relieves tension & anxiety from hectic city life.

Practicing sport invokes pleasures and, reinvigoration & promotes physical health.
Sport enhances social interaction,
Through participating in a public game with others, the player also socializes with

them.
Sporting achievement helps to develop self-esteem, reduces anti- social behavior and

promotes physical fitness

. Provides constructive uses for leisure time Encourages the emergence of positive
role model.

The Changing Trends

Philippine people have well been praised for their hard- working and flexibility
altitude in working Developing cities like Tuguegarao, working overtime and even on
weekend is not uncommon in the working society, thus leaving limited time for
leisure. Even when they have free time, most of the tuguegaraoenos prefer going to
stay at home or shopping, seldom think of sport and have some physical exercises.
With the rise in overall living standards and the world trend of general health
concern, more and more people start to realize the importance of a physically and
psychologically healthy life. Thanks also to the consistent effort from the
government on sports promotion, and influence of local and widely known athletes in
promoting sports like basketball many young and adult people have developed the
habits of playing sports, as means to maintaining a physical healthy body and as a
social event with their families and friends.

Deficiencies and Demand

At the present moment, the provisions and standards of the sports facilities
for the public lags behind the need of Tuguegarao City.
As for basketball competitions there are only 2 possible venues which can
hold competitions : the Cagayan Sports Stadium and the Peoples Gymnasium
of tuguegarao city .

The Cagayan Sports Stadium, which in the present is located within the
site of Cagayan National High School. It has a capacity of more or less
(2,000) seats, we take in consideration that the cagayan sports stadium is
inside the school proper that is why its primary function is for school
purposes.

image:

The Peoples Gymnasium, (the proposed project) most of the PBA

playoffs where held here. Could occupy more or less (1,000) seating
capacity. The gymnasium is decades of years old , it is located within
Luna st. Ugac Sur Tuguegarao city

:
image:

TUGUEGARAO CITY PEOPLES GYMNASIUM

Deficiencies and Problems

At present, the gymnasium has its facilities. Dim-lighted, old equipments

and with no assigned maintenance, the lawless elements of the building
made its reputation shun down. Old and broken windows everywhere, with
growing number of vehicles and lack required parking spaces for the users
causes traffic and conjunction every time an event is help there.
As the building has been developed over a long period of
time, there exists a lot of problem. The inadequacies and
the problems can be generally summaries as the following

Aging of the Facilities

Most of the buildings have been built over 30 to 60 years.

The facilities are already nearly outdated, insufficient and
below standard. Although the building is still usable, due
to the site constraints, it has not been built to its full potential.
Further expansion is limited.

Lack of an Integral Design

As the building blocks were built stage by stage in a piecemeal manner. The design of the building doesn't fit to the demand of present
generation. The circulation is a mess and the interfaces between
old and new are chaotic.
TUGUEGARAO CITY PEOPLES GYMNASIUM

Difficulties in Facilities Management

Expansion of facilities is often achieved either by having

them in a new block or at the expense of other facilities.
Therefore, similar facilities may be housed in different
locations. This make the central control and management
of facilities extremely difficult.

Lack of Adequate Security Control

As mentioned before, the overall confusing master planning

with a entrance and exit points make security control

extremely difficult. At present, there are no groups of security
guards to patrol 24 hours. However, it is fundamentally not
an efficient solution to the problem.

Inadequate Car Parking

As the number of vehicles has been increased steadily over

the years, the existing car parking facilities are no longer
adequate. At present, there are no adequate parking slots present
on the site required to meet the future demand.
Besides these pragmatic deficiencies, architecturally
speaking, the design is also undesirable. The whole
sides of the gymnasium has been over used and un-proper
maintenance is visible.

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BACOLOD ARTS & YOUTH SPORTS CENTER

Bacolod City, Negros Occidental,

Philippines
Owner: Bacolod City Government
Capacity :more than a thousand
Surface :1 hectare

Location:

The Bacolod Arts and Youth Sports Center (BAYS Center) is a multiuse gym located in the heart of Bacolod City, fronting the Bacolod Public Plaza,
in Negros Occidental, Philippines. It is used mostly for basketball, karatedo and
boxing matches, and was used in events in the city like the MassKara Festival
activities and other government related activities like seminars, business and
political gatherings.[1]It was the venue of the UMA-ONEBA and NOKAF
Championships in which the Western Visayas athletes participated in sporting
events.[2][3]The gym has a seating capacity of more than a thousand. It is officially
designated as the COMELEC tally headquarters for both local and national
election in the Philippines.[4]
Aside from the gym, it also serves as offices of the departments of the city
and also serves as cultural facilities.
Bacolod Arts & Youth Sports Center The Bacolod Arts and Youth Sports Center
(BAYS Center)is a multi-use gym located in the heart of Bacolod City, fronting
the Bacolod Public Plaza, in Negros Occidental, Philippines.