Sport has developed more in the last decade, than in the previous 100 years, due to the influence of vast amounts of money and business interests. However, paradoxically it is becoming more inclusive and less collegiate. Sports engineering is the backbone of sport, researching, designing, testing and analysing a range of sporting equipment and methods to advance sport.

The introduction of ‘extreme sports’ into the proposal has introduced a wider varied programmatic and formal possibilities for the architecture. The form making requirements and opportunities of these sports are a gift to architects, combining three-dimensional complexity and constructional ingenuity, which is evident in the proposals BMX ramp designs that are infused throughout.

The proposal provides the existing RBS Bank with a section it always deserved, supplying an atrium space between the floors. The existing structural grid and form is extended to follow the formal urban geometries of the Georgian New Town, providing shelter and observation for the BMX skate park.