Throwback Thursday June 4th 2020

This Throwback Thursday I'm discussing my graduation subject. On July 4th 2014 I graduated with 8.0 from Anton de Kom University. My thesis title was making a preliminary design for IAAF class A athletic stadium in Suriname.

Link of 3 part playlist:

Extra research:
  • athletic stadiums in the Caribbean, green oriented etc.
  • IAAF rules and regulations
  • studying an older project proposal for an athletics stadium (the company where I did my intern at)
  • Research of complex ways of doing location research  (coarse to fine outlook)
  • 2 different survey's ;
    • oral survey to athletic group owners
    • survey to athletes
My thesis was split in 3 different subject:
1) The location research
The location ended up being Lelydorp, De Craneweg. This was a big discussion under my work and school supervisor. But I would choose somewhere else if I did the research again now. Because a lot of urban development in Suriname since 2014. But this took a lot of research because I needed to learn how to do a location research for this stadium with the location requirements of IAAF.
 
2) The program of requirements

The program requirements took a lot of reading. Information about IAAF Class A rules and regulation, research of own athletic groups in Suriname their special needs. I didn't get a lot of input of the person that hired me for this subject but I did get from other little athletic groups that did bother to give me the time of day. I'd learned about :

  • the different functions in a athletic stadium ,
  • the people involved during games, staff meetings, practices etc
  • the complex spatial route of each user
  • the requirements technical, functional etc for different rooms
  • the different rooms for practice, games, commercial, safety etc





3) The preliminary design
This was overall not my favorite design nor my first choice actually. But I need to finish and my supervisors wanted the end inspiration choice. I didn't go further with construction calculations and maintenance and management plan. Of course the same reason I had to finish my thesis.




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