Indoor parkour/freerun park

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania.
Area: 239.9 m2

First of all I would like to thank again a few people:

Gediminas Paulauskas - thank You for giving an opportunity by inviting to design such space. For being a team member and helping with decisions for on how to do better.

Liudas Dmitrijevas and CGS team - thank You for proffesional construction work, insights and offers not only of the design aswell as how obstacles could be strengthened.

And of course thank You whole Lithuanian parkour community for the inspiration for this sport.

Parkour is athletic activity based on overcoming obstacles with efficient body movement. Mostly this movement consists of jumping, vaulting, swinging and climbing. Plainly parkour is described as moving as fast as possible from point A to point B where only time is relevent with your skills put to use. If some acrobatic, gymnastic moves, for example summersaults, are added, the sport takes into more challenging level where time is not the only criteria. There comes creativity, style, flow and difficulty of the trick. Therefore activity becomes more free, called Freerunning.

Given situation.

Space for an indoor parkour park was not ideal because of the beams diving space height. Height in parkour is essential for a person to be able jump confidently in order to train efficiently.

What kind of park to design?

One of the main gaols of the park was to have good conditions to educate,train young people the art of parkour. Since it is the first area for safe training during winter, the conclusion was that park should be universal for beginners and adanced athletes.Thus, the divided spaces implemented that the obstacles be in ascending order.
Also, a clean pathway is a must since the area is passed to other areas (entrances shown in the plan). It was moved to the right side bumping into foam pit and going arround it.

Seeing as advantages

Roof beams could also be integrated into obstacle course. For example, from main entrance a box to foam pit was placed near the beam for athletes to use (mainly touching, pushing off) while doing a flip, jump.

The collumn with high railing was placed under the beam to swing to other obstacles, to avoid the unpleasantness of high jumps under it.

The ventilation pipes on sides were also an issue, in order for athletes not damage them or to touch them, high obstacles were designed on the left side.