Tennis court built as an open air tower house?

[lime]

Hello,

I am working with sustainable City development in Austria.

I wonder if anyone knows about tennis court built as an open air Tower house, one tennis court built upon the next, maybe 3-4 floors high. The court should be open, not locked. Just with a netting outside. The construction could be in light steal, like a construction hall. Who could help me further?
We are building a new living area where there have been many tennis Courts from before. Instead of settling them out to another part of the City, I wonder whether we can Keep them in the same place, but build them above each other to save space. We also build a parking house on the area, several floors high. So why shouldn't this work for tennis Courts as well?
Grateful for any comments. Elisabeth

 

[Tennis_Hands]

What happens to the played high balls?

Or would every level built be 15 plus meters high?

 

[Russeljones]

Hi Elisabeth,

have you thought about the dimensions of the aforementioned courts? How will you ensure rigidity with the space that needs to be afforded to each court (vertical and horizontal)?

 

[tennisaddict]

Guess you are not planning to call on Wozniacki and Rafa.

 

[lime]

Don't think so! I am not playing Tennis myself. I just try to find a spatial solution for combing residential blocks with Tennis Courts which were residing there from before. What would be a Minimum hight between the floors? There are no specialist Players on the current Tennis Courts, no public matches. Just a Club teaching Kids and Young People how to Play.

 

[Russeljones]

Don't think so! I am not playing Tennis myself. I just try to find a spatial solution for combing residential blocks with Tennis Courts which were residing there from before. What would be a Minimum hight between the floors? There are no specialist Players on the current Tennis Courts, no public matches. Just a Club teaching Kids and Young People how to Play.

I think this would be a useful read for you.
http://www.itftennis.com/technical/facilities/facilities-guide/indoor-structures.aspx

 

[lime]

Hi Elisabeth,

have you thought about the dimensions of the aforementioned courts? How will you ensure rigidity with the space that needs to be afforded to each court (vertical and horizontal)?

what would be Minimum space in hight?

 

[lime]

I think this would be a useful read for you.
http://www.itftennis.com/technical/facilities/facilities-guide/indoor-structures.aspx

thanks!
could you explain me please the three different "Levels" which are described at the end of the web-page you sent?
Play Level Net (m) Baseline (m) Backstop (m)
Recreational 10.67 6.10 4.88
Because what I read is that around 5 Meters hight would be sufficient, as it is between backstop and baseline (whatever this means...)

 

[Russeljones]

thanks!
could you explain me please the three different "Levels" which are described at the end of the web-page you sent?
Play Level Net (m) Baseline (m) Backstop (m)
Recreational 10.67 6.10 4.88
Because what I read is that around 5 Meters hight would be sufficient, as it is between backstop and baseline (whatever this means...)

Hi Elisabeth,

as I understand it, the backstop is the real or virtual end of the playing surface (behind the baseline). In your case I presume that would be the outer perimeter/wall of the space.

 

[lime]

Hi Elisabeth,

as I understand it, the backstop is the real or virtual end of the playing surface (behind the baseline). In your case I presume that would be the outer perimeter/wall of the space.

hmmm.... does this mean that the hight above the court should be highest at the net (10,67 meters), falling downward to 4.88 at the backstop? This would Need - having a flat roof for another Tennis court above - a hight of 10,67 Meters between each floor Level? Can this be? When I look at the netting of our local tenns court in my village, it is much much lower....
Does anyone know about such a structure - Tennis Tower house? Maybe somewhere in Asia in a very dense City?

 

[Tennis_Hands]

hmmm.... does this mean that the hight above the court should be highest at the net (10,67 meters), falling downward to 4.88 at the backstop? This would Need - having a flat roof for another Tennis court above - a hight of 10,67 Meters between each floor Level? Can this be? When I look at the netting of our local tenns court in my village, it is much much lower....
Does anyone know about such a structure - Tennis Tower house? Maybe somewhere in Asia in a very dense City?

In China, you can find very dense cities.

Usually they don't have any population, but maybe they have tennis courts or at least open air tower houses.

 

[Russeljones]

hmmm.... does this mean that the hight above the court should be highest at the net (10,67 meters), falling downward to 4.88 at the backstop? This would Need - having a flat roof for another Tennis court above - a hight of 10,67 Meters between each floor Level? Can this be? When I look at the netting of our local tenns court in my village, it is much much lower....
Does anyone know about such a structure - Tennis Tower house? Maybe somewhere in Asia in a very dense City?

If you like, I can ask a friend (architect )who's worked on some pretty large buildings in Europe. Definitely sounds like a neat solution to a real issue.

 

[jm1980]

Interesting idea, but I couldn't find any real examples of this. Just this:

The shadows are terrible and it's only got 9m or so between floors, but it's a start

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/12/21/tenniscalator-by-david-tajchman/

 

[Russeljones]

@jm1980 that looks nice! 9m should be fine.

 

[ArcspacE]

Hello,

I am working with sustainable City development in Austria.

I wonder if anyone knows about tennis court built as an open air Tower house, one tennis court built upon the next, maybe 3-4 floors high. The court should be open, not locked. Just with a netting outside. The construction could be in light steal, like a construction hall. Who could help me further?
We are building a new living area where there have been many tennis Courts from before. Instead of settling them out to another part of the City, I wonder whether we can Keep them in the same place, but build them above each other to save space. We also build a parking house on the area, several floors high. So why shouldn't this work for tennis Courts as well?
Grateful for any comments. Elisabeth

As an architect I can tell you that would be ambitious at best but certainly do-able

 

[Shaolin]

Dr. Ivo couldn't play in there.