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This paper aims to investigate the spatial properties of a youth centre combined with sports facility for residential community. This facility consists of two separate buildings – one is designed for after-school activities, and the other is for sports, and interestingly these two buildings are connected to each other via a deck placed at second level. Based on the visibility graph analysis as one of syntactical techniques, it is firstly revealed that the deck has a critical role not only in increasing accessibility to both facilities, but also in making them more intelligible, because it provides an extra access point. Despite those advantages, secondly, the deck does not make the sports building intelligible. This is the reason that mega-spaces (e.g., basketball court, swimming pool, fitness centre, and aerobics) are placed at each level without any spatial consideration.