Abstract
This paper aims to analyse how the financial crisis is going to affect the trends in the construction of sport facilities in the Spanish Universities. The method is a survey conducted with 180 people including three different groups: Students, architects and sport facility managers. The results show that a high percentage of the respondents agree the use, construction and renewal of sport facilities in Spanish Universities will continue increasing within the next three years. Regarding the architectural trends, the wellness and recreational centres will be more successful than other options such as climbing walls or centres integrating sports and arts. Perhaps, these trends are more affected by cultural and social factors than by the economy. Key words: Finance, crisis, architecture, University, sport facilities.
Highlights
This paper aims to analyse how the financial crisis is going to affect the trends in the construction of sport facilities in the Spanish Universities
The results show that a high percentage of the respondents agree the use, construction and renewal of sport facilities in Spanish Universities will continue increasing within the three years
Construction trends of Universities sport facilities have changed a lot from its beginning
Summary
Construction trends of Universities sport facilities have changed a lot from its beginning. In 1859, when the first intercollegiate baseball game took place in the United States, between Amherst College and Williams College, these facilities on Universities started being an integral part of the campus landscape (Greenberg, 2004). In 1869, the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, hosted the first intercollegiate football game between Rutgers and Princeton universities Possibly the most famous fact related with Universities sport was the invention of basketball by Naismith in 1891 at the YMCA Training School ( Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts (Cohn, 1991)
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