Markos Karanastasis Basketball Hall
A three-month refit of the Hellenic Mediterranean University's hall in Heraklion — 1,120 m² of FIBA-grade sprung parquet at 28×40 m, holding a full competition court, two training courts and a volleyball floor marked for handball.
- Facility
- Indoor basketball arena
- Named for
- Markos Karanastasis
- Client
- Hellenic Mediterranean University (ELMEPA)
- Scope
- Functional upgrade of the existing hall
- Duration
- 3 months
- Location
- Heraklion, Crete
- Category
- Sports facilities
One floor, four games
The hall was already there. What limited it was the floor — 820 square metres of tired parquet that could hold one game and no more. Lydakis lifted all of it by hand, cast a new lightly reinforced base beneath, and laid 1,120 square metres of FIBA-grade sprung parquet at 28 by 40 metres.
That single surface now carries a full competition basketball court, two 14×26 training courts beside it, and a volleyball court marked for handball as well. Four configurations on one floor is what turns a university gym into a training centre a city can share — professional squads, amateur leagues, children's teams, and residents, with accessible routes and rebuilt changing rooms so that "everyone" means it.
Αίθουσα καλαθοσφαίρισης κλειστού γυμναστηρίου «Μάρκος Καραναστάσης»
Strip out
820 m² of the old parquet taken up by hand, inside a building that had to survive the process.
New base
A lightly reinforced C16/20 slab cast to receive the parquet — the part nobody sees and everything rests on.
FIBA floor
1,120 m² of sprung competition parquet at 28×40 m — one full court, two training courts, volleyball and handball.
Around the court
435 m² of epoxy industrial floor to the perimeter, changing rooms and WCs rebuilt, accessible routes outside.
The hall, part by part
Drag sideways — including the view down from the roof steel
Let's build it: from the first drawing to the keys
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