BASIS is delighted to partner with BDP Pattern which sees them as one of 2023 BASIS Sustainable Sport Award event partners as well as being a 12 Principles Partner under two of our principles- Procurement and Education.
We look forward to working with them over the next 12 months and beyond to add value to our members through collaboration on mutual interest and benefit and the intention to celebrate, promote and encourage greater understanding and the exchange of ideas and expertise between professionals working in sustainability in the sports sector
BDP Pattern is the sports and entertainment division of BDP, a global architecture and engineering practice with a network of studios across the UK, EMEA, Asia, North America and Latin America. Pattern was founded by Dipesh Patel and Lindsay Johnston in 2009 and became part of the BDP group in 2021.BDP Pattern’s ethos is to create designs that achieve a balance between the man-made environment and the natural world.
We are interested in projects that enhance the user experience by addressing well-being and visual harmony, whilst optimising parametric design to create complex structures that can respond to local context and elements. Our passive-first approach to stadia and sporting venue design uses the fundamentals of building geometry and architectural concept to minimise the environmental impact of our projects. We aim to optimise solar incidence, airflow, rain protection and daylight levels for a project’s location and climate to create the ultimate sporting experience. Our technical skills in computational design, parametric modelling and BIM enable us to invent complex geometric forms that can mitigate hot climates or provide wind assisted, high-performing environments for athletes. Our creative design talents ensure we deliver memorable places where people come together to share a sporting experience. At BDP Pattern, legacy is a priority. We feel the responsibility to ensure our projects deliver for both our clients and local communities, and do so by envisioning the legacy of our schemes then realising those plans in final constructions.
For every project, we bring together an interdisciplinary team of architects, urban designers, technologists and designers who have expertise in sports and entertainment buildings, sports masterplanning, hospitality and revenue analysis. Our collaborative approach has resulted in elegant architectural forms, detailed planning and highly technical design solutions for our clients.
So why did BDP Pattern join BASIS? BDP Pattern Architect Director, Jon-Scott Kohli, says:
“Sustainability is the biggest challenge of our time, and we all have a role to play in achieving a radical transformation in the way we consume resources and construct our environments. I want BDP Pattern to be a leading organisation in developing sustainable – even regenerative – sports buildings, venues and masterplans. We can use our projects’ scale and resources to drive innovation and set new benchmarks for sustainable design, further pushing forward our sector and enhancing human and environmental health.
We’re not there yet. Not even close. The scale, complexity and wide-reaching nature of this challenge means that we cannot do it alone. It is only through wide-spread collaboration that we (collectively) have any hope of turning our emissions around and achieving net zero development. I hope that joining more direct conversations with sporting venues and associations will enable us all to draw on real-time experience and inform better designs. I hope we can contribute our knowledge of what new venues are doing, and can help inspire existing venues to update and upgrade their practices. We thank BASIS for providing a platform to do so.”
https://www.bdp.com/en/sectors/sport/
