New Parkland
Improving Jones Beach: Dual-use parkland.
New Parkland
A park within the park.
Permanent courts can sustain damage during the winter months; the SPORT COURT product can be easily disassembled and stored during the winter.
In addition, the remarkable versatility and temporary nature of SPORT COURT allow both the location and quantity of each sport to be changed as needed, allowing unprecedented flexibility, which does not exist with permanent courts.
The permeable Sport Court tile system can also create large, solid-surface areas for recreation including open & covered seating areas.
Sport Court can be directly installed on a solid surface or over their ingenious SportBase foundation system, which could conceivably be engineered further by Sport Court for this application onto a firm and level grass surface.
Considering all the new parkland would be re-graded higher than its current elevation, means better permeability keeping the ground surface stable.
However, should a solid surface base be needed underneath each Sport Court for installation on grass, then engineered, pre-cast interlocking concrete panels > of manageable size could be trucked-in and laid into place on the grass like the pieces of a puzzle, forming the base on which each Sport Court can be installed. Then, inter-graded perimeter skirting can be installed, allowing safe transition from the surrounding grass and walkways, onto the Sport Court surface.
The relative ease of installation and removal of the Sport Court systems means each Sport Court (i.e., tennis or volleyball) can be:
- installed in the spring
- dismantled during the race
- re-installed after the race
- removed during the winter months to extend their economic life.
Within the context of this annual installation and dismantling process unique to Jones Beach, perhaps SPORT COURT could special engineer each sport-court for greater longevity.