Crystal Palace Park National Sports Centre

The following key moves work to make the NSC a fully integrated facility that faces out into the wider park, providing an exciting active space that recognises the site’s history and reflects the landscape context it sits within. • Integration - Ensuring the NSC integrates successfully into the wider park, removing physical and visual barriers, road infrastructure and improving pedestrian access. • Historic Fragments - Recognising the site’s rich history and Paxton’s original vision for the park. Picking up on historic fragments and traces within the landscape and reinstating key historic views and features. • A New Layer of Landscape Typology - Currently, the NSC does not have a strong landscape identity, unbefitting of the parkland context it sits within. A key move for the new scheme will be to introduce a new layer of landscape character into the park, to ensure the sports centre has a clearer identity. • Play into Sport - A key driver for the project as a whole is to encourage more people into formal sport through play. The external space around the NSC provides a unique opportunity to create an active programme; within which relationships and proximities of sport and play create a gateway to sport.