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IIHF PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS
Activities And Services
The IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation sets some basic programmatic principles to follow when building an Ice Hockey venue. There is also an emphasis on the interest a community must have on the Ice rink venue to make it financially sustainable over time, That is why IIHF establishes that any Ice rink should be built under a “Sport for All” approach, promoting health and sociocultural development for a community. There is a latent need for round-the-year uses, turning the venues suitable for other uses in ice-free months. During the ice seasons, the venue owner should partner with the community, clubs, and schools, to keep activities on an 18h/day basis. It is important, therefore, to youth and adult programs, as well as mix hockey with other skating sports, like figure skating, short track, and curling. To target the youth and provide a medium and long-term perspective of users, it is important to set “Learn to Skate & Learn to Play Hockey” programs, which will allow the creation of a community of users in the future.
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Public skate sessions, that is, the use of the general public for free skating for a fee are also recommended in a way to introduce new people to the ice rink venues and keep the schedule of an ice rink venue full.
The Spatial Program Needed For Ice Rinks
The IIHF provides an ice rink guide establishing the technical and spatial requirements for an economically sustainable ice rink construction. Although using a small-scale example, the IIHF guide provides good guidelines for the program of an ice rink allied with the basic technical needs that building an ice rink requires.
The space descriptions presented in Table 4 and Table 5 was used as a reference for the spatial distribution for the proposal in Santa Giulia. Figure 75 and Figure 76 exemplify a basic project for an Ice rink of small dimensions but set an important organization that was a start point for our proposition. Finally, some technical aspects also are influent in the characterizations of our program. Figure 77schematically represents these basic needs.
