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Splash Cove: Jim Allen Aquatic Center

Department of Parks and Recreation - Shawnee, KS

City of Shawnee - Splash Cove: Jim Allen Aquatic Center
©Jerry Tovo/YDG

Firm: Yarger Design Group, Inc.

Role: Project Manager/Architect

The project included the construction of a new outdoor swim and entertainment facility with a bathhouse and parking lot.

The new structures consist of an Open-air Entry Core, a Bath House with Bather Changing and Pool Mechanical Rooms and a Support Building with Concessions, Administration. The water play area includes two bodies of water surrounded by deck and grass areas. The Main Pool that includes interconnected zero-entry leisure, activity, and plunge pools featuring an interactive Play Structure and a body-slide. The Wave Pool with a zero-entry beach features a wave generator.

The Bath House with Bather Changing Rooms and Pool Mechanical Room is unconditioned with mechanical ventilation. The Support Building with Concessions and Administration is conditioned for year-round use.

The Open-air Entry Core that spans between the Bath House and Support Building provides shelter for the Control Deck and Bather Lockers.

The buildings are load-bearing masonry with wood roof framing and metal connector plate wood truss. Roofing is composite shingles on plywood sheathing on the buildings and wood decking over the Entry Core. Interior finishes include painted masonry partitions and steel doors in the Bath House and gypsum board and metal stud partitions in the Support Building.

An additional freestanding building on the project is the Wave Generator Structure (WGS). The WGS is primarily constructed of cast-in-place concrete which, houses the wave equipment above the baffle chamber below. The wall that faces the pool and the opposite parallel are cast-in-place concrete integrated into the baffle chamber. The space between the cast-in-place walls above the baffle chamber housed the equipment.

Johnathan E. Ruder, AIA    14236 Reelfoot Lake Drive    Chesterfield    Missouri    63017    314-504-4168    jeruder@charter.net    copyright 2018