Minehead EYE
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Skate park and youth centre housed in a two storey building, sited to the south of the Mart Road Regeneration Area
The centre is split into two main sections, a double-height multi-purpose arena, which is used as a skate park, and a youth centre with cafe area. The building also includes a multi-media suite, rehearsal space, recording studio and exhibition space.
A glazed doorway and projecting canopy mark the building's entrance. The transparent and layered first floor polycarbonate façade comes alive at night with the colourchange LED lighting. Throughout the interiors and exteriors of the building, an orange and green colour palette is expressed against a neutral background of white walls and birch plywood timber lining panels.
The superstructure comprised a steel frame with precast planks, providing the clear large spans to the skate park and enabling rapid construction. The centre uses biomass (woodpellet) underfloor heating, and natural ventilation is used throughout.
Data
- Begun: May 2009
- Completed: Sep 2010
- Floor area: 1,226m2
- Sector: Sports and leisure
- Total cost: £2.7M
- Procurement: Two stage traditional/ JCT ICD with contractor's design (revision 1 2007)
- CO2 Emissions: 24.7kg/m2/year
- Address: Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5BJ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Mark Kingsley Architects
- Client: Minehead EYE CIC
- Structural engineer: Integral Engineering Design Ltd
- M&E consultant: Mott MacDonald Group Ltd
- Quantity surveyor: Baker Ruff
- CDM coordinator: Baker Ruff
- Approved building inspector : Oculus Building Consultancy Ltd
- Main contractor: D B Russell Construction
Suppliers
- Brickwork: Ibstock Brick Ltd
- Cavity closers: Cavalok Building Products
- Insulation 1: Jablite
- Insulation 2: Unger-Diffutherm
- External Doors: Velfac
- External steel doors: Taskmaster
- External polycarbonate cladding: Rodeca Ltd
- Roof Covering: Trelleborg
- Rooflight supplier: Glazing Vision
- Rubber Flooring: Dalsouple
- Sheet flooring: Forbo Nairn Flooring
- BMX/ Skate Ramps: Evolution Skatepark Ramps