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Basketball, Netball & Volleyball - Lighting advice for these sports is similar to
that for badminton hall design. Volleyball uses a white
ball, and so has similar colour requirements to badminton in
terms of surface colours.
Table Tennis -
This sport has strict advice against the use of daylighting.
For recreational purposes, a daylit hall might be acceptable to
players - if correctly designed. However, club level and above
will probably require any daylight to be blacked-out. If
daylighting can be tolerated then it should follow a design
similar to badminton.
Gymnastics - The British Amateur Gymnastics Association does
not encourage daylighting and does not condone the inclusion of
gymnastics in the same hall as other sports, due to the
specialist nature of the activity.
Fencing & Cricket - Fencing can be satisfied in a badminton
designed hall if the luminance can be raised to 400 lux or
higher, to counteract the visual impediment of the mask.
Cricket requires high light levelsand
evenly distributed light is important with a background
contrasting with the ball. In a multi purpose sports hall this
can be achieved with white nets.
Integrating Artificial Light and Daylight
All good lighting strategies benefit from a
combination of natural lighting and artificial lighting. Most
sports facilities accommodate recreational to club level play
for the majority of the time. In such situations daylight is
generally welcomed. The success of a scheme (aesthetically,
functionally and in
terms of energy efficiency) will rely on
these being well integrated. Proper integration relies on
consideration at an early stage of a large range of factors:
window location and design;
how the building will be
used, maintained and managed;
the shape and orientation of
spaces in relation to activities;
surface finishes, and choice
of lamps, luminaires, switches and controls.
It is important to consider the effect of
partial daylight and the requirements for artificial lighting
at night.
A room needs to be visually bright if it is
to be successfully daylit. Sports halls have suffered in the
past because they have not been designed to be visually bright.
The use of daylight will aid the designer to create a visually
bright scheme and to incorporate both artificial lighting and
natural lighting with relative ease. This means that it is very
important to blend the transition between daylight and
artificial light. This can be achieved by using lamps of
similar colour temperature to daylight to illuminate
ceiling voids and walls.
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