Esports has grown significantly over the last decade, giving rise to professional, competitive video gaming. Having worked with Confetti on variety of projects within their estate, we were delighted to be appointed by them to develop the architectural designs alongside specialist acoustic, technical design consultants and their own fit-out contractor Constellations for their new Esports Centre, Confetti X.
The new centre involved significant structural adaptations in what was an underutilised car park within a large, multi-use building in the centre of Nottingham - also home to Confetti’s Metronome, a music venue and recording studio teaching facility. The aim of the 1300m2 redevelopment was to create a large new content-studio / venue for filming and live-streaming esports competitions and to provide a range of world-class facilities where students can learn all of the technical aspects of technical event production using real-world technologies.
On the ground floor is the main Esports event space, with a 9m long, state of the art 4k video wall, audience seating and VIP areas, which provides the highest quality experience for competitors and fans alike. With 100 seats, the space hosts events for viewers to come and watch in person, but the space is primarily used for recording content to be live-streamed online to a much larger international audience. The space recently hosted BBC ‘Children in Need – Game On’, featured on BBC 1 and BBC 3.
On the first floor is a double height social space, which is light and spacious to encourage a great atmosphere; a breakout space with a sense of openness and community. In contrast, there are a variety of technical teaching rooms such as a broadcasting gallery, team warm up facilities, training suites, green screen studio, shout-caster (presenter studio) and analyst rooms. This change of scale reflects the technical requirements of the spaces as well as how these rooms look in commercial settings so students get used to this environment.
Nottingham Trent University
£5.6M
This new state of the art facility places Nottingham right at the centre of Esports in the UK, as it is one of very few to be nationally recognised by global streaming platform Twitch and the British Esports Association. The redesign has given the space a strong sense of place and identity, in which students, competitors and fans can come together as a community in an incredible facility.
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