Great access to fitness facilities has been a staple of the Olympic developments, helping to improve the health of communities. The Olympic Legacy project seeks to continue this development until 2035, which the Royal Borough Greenwich is a part of. The principal issue with the development up to this point, is with the inevitable disenfranchisement of the community associated with the top-down approach to Olympics urbanism.

Greenwich used to be an industrial centre for far longer than it was in use by the Royals. The industrial heritage, however, is treated with disdain being raised to the ground to make way for a city of culture on the Peninsula. This is a missed opportunity: industrial structures tend to be warehouses and by modern standards, are structurally overdesigned. Therefore, there is spare capacity for adaptive re-use. Most importantly they are monuments of culture.

A sports centre that addresses the existing community and takes advantage of the large volumes inherent to industrial structures capitalises on both issues.
The scheme intends to reduce the new structures to the essential. This serves to save material and creates a lightweight and transparent architecture distinct from the industrial power station. This strategy conceptually resembles an athlete fine tuning their body to perfection.