Brixton Recreation Centre Virtual Tour

Brixton Recreation Centre is a vital community sports facility in South London, offering extensive amenities including swimming pools, fitness facilities, sports courts, and activity spaces. The centre serves thousands of local residents and needed comprehensive digital documentation to support marketing and operational planning.

This project created a detailed 360° virtual tour covering the entire facility, from reception areas through to specialized sports spaces. The tour serves multiple purposes: marketing the centre to potential members, operational planning for facility management, and providing accessibility information for users planning their visits.

The comprehensive documentation approach ensures that every significant space within the centre is captured, creating a valuable resource for both promotional use and internal facility management.

The recreation centre required documentation that would serve diverse stakeholder needs: marketing teams needed attractive imagery for promotional materials, facility managers needed accurate spatial documentation for planning, and potential users needed clear views of amenities and accessibility features.

The challenge was to capture a large, active facility while minimizing disruption to daily operations. The photography needed to be completed efficiently while maintaining high quality across dozens of different spaces, each with unique lighting conditions and spatial characteristics.

I conducted a comprehensive 360° photography survey of the entire facility using a Ricoh Theta Z1. The capture was scheduled strategically to minimize disruption, working around facility operating hours and peak usage times.

The resulting virtual tour provides complete coverage of the centre's facilities: entrance and reception areas, swimming pools and changing facilities, fitness centres and studios, sports courts and activity spaces, and circulation areas throughout the building.

Each panorama was carefully positioned to show both the spatial layout and the quality of facilities, with interactive navigation allowing users to move naturally between spaces as they would during an actual visit.

• Comprehensive 360° coverage of entire facility
• Swimming pool and aquatic facilities documentation
• Fitness centre and studio spaces
• Sports court and activity area captures
• Reception and circulation space coverage
• Mobile-responsive virtual tour navigation
• Integration with existing website
• Marketing and operational planning resource

The virtual tour has become an essential resource for Brixton Recreation Centre's marketing efforts, allowing potential members to explore the facility remotely before visiting. It helps set clear expectations about amenities and spaces, reducing time spent on facility tours for staff.

The documentation also serves operational purposes, providing facility managers with accurate visual records for planning improvements and helping contractors prepare quotes for maintenance work without requiring multiple site visits.