Car Parks?

Ideas for my major study project are starting to come along but I am yet to fully decide on a final site location. With the idea of building in the city centre of Nottingham comes the issue of space. As with most city centres space is very limited and I am proposing the development of a leisure centre which usually requires a large area. 

Which this issue I started to think about how I could potentially build vertically, knowing it has been done with gyms in city centres before where facilities have been provided over a number of levels. Today I walked past the Arnedale car park, this got me thinking maybe I don't need a open piece of land maybe there is a potential to construct on top of a building or car park? 

I decided to go round Nottingham city centre and look at all of the car parks. As you can imagine all of these car parks are located in prime locations in the centre of the city.

Broadmarsh Car Park

Broadmarsh car park is located above the Broadmarsh bus station. This is the biggest of all the car parks I looked at.

 

Lace Market Car Park

This car park in located on Fletcher Gate Road and again is in a great central location in the city. From first thoughts I feel that this car park might be slightly to narrow to accommodate a reasonable sized multi-court sport hall.

Arndale Car Park

The Arndale car park is located near the boardmarsh car park. This is a more suitable size from my initial thoughts. Again it does appear to be very narrow and could be a challenge.

One feature that makes this car park stand out from the rest is the fact that there is areas around the car park that could be used for vertical circulation and other uses. Most of the other car parks that I looked at were fully surrounded by other buildings and road leaving little room to construct outside of the car parks total floor area.

Crown Plaza Car Park

Mount Street Car Park

Along with the Arndale car park the Mount Street car park seems to be a suitable size for a good sized sporting facility. The Mount Street car park is more of a square shape so I am leaning more towards choosing this car park but I am still unsure.