Olympic Tennis Complex Competition Entries

[cSaints]

The Winner has been announced! Scroll down to the Judging and Scores Sections to find out more.

BRIEF

In a recent competition here in the little corner we like to call creative corner, entrants were given the challenge of designing a Tennis Complex for the 2016 Olympics in 3D. They were to choose from the seven cities that bid to host the games (Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, Doha, Tokyo, Madrid, Prague, Baku), and were given the following guidelines:

• The proposed tennis complex must be located within five miles (8km) of the city centre (the point marked A when you search the city's name on Google Maps), and include between 8 and 12 courts.
• One court must have a capacity of between 7000 and 10000. There must be at least 250 VIP seats and 100 press seats.
• Two courts must have a capacity of between 3000 and 5000. Each must have at least 100 VIP seats and 50 press seats. These courts can have identical designs, but do not have to.
• The remaining 5-9 courts (depending on how many total courts you include in your design) should all have a capacity of approximately 500. They should have around 20 VIP seats and 10 press seats. These courts can have identical designs, but do not have to.
• All courts must be all-seated with no 'safe-standing' area's.
• All courts must be outdoor, as it is an outdoor competition. However retractable roofs may be used on one or more of the three main courts if the cities climate suggests there might be a need for it. Stands can have roofs, but do not have to.
• Playing surfaces can be Grass, Clay or Hard-Court. However all courts must have the same playing surface.
• There should be both indoor and outdoor area's for spectators, VIP, press and players to congregate (separately) between matches, possibly including restaurants, café's or shops.
• There should be adequate parking for cars and buses/coaches.
• The complex should fit together snugly but not too tightly. I.e. the walking distance between courts shouldn't be too long but there also must be enough room for the area's around the courts not to become too crowded during busy times.

JUDGING

There were 3 judges who scored the entries in six different categories out of 5 to give a score out of 30. These scores were added together to give a score out of 90. There was also a poll so that everyone could decide on their favourite. Each entry gained one point for each vote they received in the poll, with the poll closing when 10 votes was reached by one of the entries. This gives a total score out of 100. There was also some minor point deductions added at the end for failing to meet certain criteria. The 6 Categories for judging are as follows:

1. Design of the main large court
2. Design of the two medium sized courts
3. Design of remaining smaller courts
4. Functionality of other facilities to ensure that satisfaction of visitors and smooth running of the competition
5. Design of the complex as a whole (i.e. the location of courts within the complex and how everything fits together)
6. Location and Design of complex in relation to the city it is in.

SCORES

Entry: Abde01
Judge 1 Score: 22
Judge 2 Score: 21
Judge 3 Score: 21
Poll Votes: 8
Deductions: 1
Total Score: 71

Entry: Leedsrule
Judge 1 Score: 21
Judge 2 Score: 24
Judge 3 Score: 23
Poll Votes: 10
Deductions: 5
Total Score: 73

So the winner with a score of 73/100 is LEEDSRULE. Congratulations and thank you to both of the entrants as well as the judges. It really was a close call; you can see the entries for yourself below.

ENTRIES

Although many people started designs, in the end only two entries were finished by the deadline. I thank everyone for the effort they put into this project, particularly the two who completed their entries.

ENTRY 1: abde01

The complex is located in Doha (near the Aspire Sport Center)



The big stadium has 9700 seats, 30 loge, 2000 vip seats, 150 press seats
The second has 5000 seats, 500 vip seats, 75 press seats
The third has 3500 seats, 500 vip seats, 75 press seats
And the numbers 4 to 12, have 500 seats, 24 vip seats, 16 press seats
There is a building for administration

Stadiums 2 and 3 and their roofs are not finished due to not having enough time.

General view



Court 1:





Court 2 and 3 and administration building:



Other Courts:





ENTRY 2: Leedsrule

[Leedsrule]

You can see some of the models in the link in my signiture below.

Some spelling mistakes in my presentation:
1st slide: *Tokyo's
Practice Centre slide: *Area not Arena

[ETSman]

both are great, I line abdes a bit more but leeds gets the vote because of the presentation, anuway great work guys!!

[stresss]

cant see the images for abde01

[cSaints]

Originally Posted by stresss

cant see the images for abde01

I had problems with abde01's pictures showing up yesterday.. but then I refreshed and they were alright :s and then some times they just take ages to load

[abde01]

I reupload picture

[Leedsrule]

What if the poll finishes a draw? Also, when will the final result be announced?

[cSaints]

Originally Posted by Leedsrule

What if the poll finishes a draw? Also, when will the final result be announced?

I expect to announce the winner either Thursday or Friday, although I'm still awaiting scores from one more judge, so it is dependant on that.

Due to how close the poll is as well as how close the judges scores are (There is just two points in at at the moment!), I have decided it would probably be a bit unfair for somebody to gain 10 points if they were to win the poll by just 1 vote. Whoever wins the poll would basically be the winner, making the judges score practically irrelevant. Therefore I've decided instead of the winner of the poll earning 10 points, each entry will be awarded one point per vote in the poll. So for example if an entry has 5 votes it gains 5 points, if it has 10 votes it gains 10 points, and so on. I think this is a fairer system

[Leedsrule]

Originally Posted by cSaints

I expect to announce the winner either Thursday or Friday, although I'm still awaiting scores from one more judge, so it is dependant on that.

Due to how close the poll is as well as how close the judges scores are (There is just two points in at at the moment!), I have decided it would probably be a bit unfair for somebody to gain 10 points if they were to win the poll by just 1 vote. Whoever wins the poll would basically be the winner, making the judges score practically irrelevant. Therefore I've decided instead of the winner of the poll earning 10 points, each entry will be awarded one point per vote in the poll. So for example if an entry has 5 votes it gains 5 points, if it has 10 votes it gains 10 points, and so on. I think this is a fairer system

Agreed, the only problem with that would be if an entry scored over 10 votes and they may uend up with a score if over 100 but I dont think thatll happen now so good call.

[cSaints]

Judges scores are in and the winner has been announced! Full details in original post.

[abde01]

Congratulation

[Leedsrule]

Cheers guys, unlucky abde01 but bI hope youll keep modelling and sharing your great work. You can see, it was a very close call and I thinbk if you had finished everything you may have pipped me :P
Thank you judges, cheers Csaints for a good competition, it was a shame that more couldnt get their entries in but it worked well still so

[Nikola10]

hey guys is there anoything like a button saying "both" because you blew me away Great Work

[stresss]

well done to both! fantastic proposals, was hard to choose from both. would have been good to see some basic circulation diagrams, having said that their absence didnt take away from the proposals at all. i loved abde01's roof covering the smaller courts making a strong connection over the whole experience, however the other 2 larger courts needed a bit more articulation in their connection to the rest of the site and overall design.
would have liked some sort of explanation as to why court 1 is separated from the rest of the tennis courts in leedsrule's one as well.
apart from that aesthetically you both designed great stadiums, keep it up!

[Leedsrule]

It was only because that was where there was a gap, and I wanted to spread all the venues around the park to create an complete atmosphere.

[masterpaul]

I would like to organize the next competition, have the perfect idea: A quite large stadium in a small and cumbersome space :P

[Leedsrule]

Originally Posted by masterpaul

I would like to organise the next competition, have thE perfect idea. A quite large stadium in a small and cumbersome space :P

Problem with that is a lot of us dont have computers that can handle big stadiums. I cant work with much more than 20,000

[masterpaul]

Originally Posted by Leedsrule

Problem with that is a lot of us dont have computers that can handle big stadiums. I cant work with much more than 20,000

Dont worry theres no need for using any polygons for the seats, you could just apply a texture of a crowd on the tier. However the number of seats must be calculated somehow.

[stresss]

Originally Posted by Leedsrule

It was only because that was where there was a gap, and I wanted to spread all the venues around the park to create an complete atmosphere.

fair play, congratulations again! hope to be able to do one of these when ever im not too busy with uni

[liverpudlianscouser]

Im just wondering what did you use to create the pictures showing what the different venues would include was it powerpoint.