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Final Review
Arch 102.04 Jonas Coersmeier, HHS 111, 2-7 pm
Jury:
Gisela Baurmann
Catherine Jones
Signe Nielsen
Galia Solomonoff
Jason Anderson
Lawrence Blough
Karl Chu
Jeffrey Hogrefe
Jason Lee
Peter Macapia
Jason Vigneri-Beane
Brief:
Fitness is a fundamental concept in evolutionary theory and a defining theme for this studio. The investigation begins with the most common definition of the term fitness, which refers to a physical condition. By mapping physical exercise routines, data is derived that generates possible landscapes.
The second phase of the project consists of an intense evolutionary search within those landscapes for the most fertile building ground. Here, the possible grounds and their structural seedlings engage in a tight interaction, and consequently cannot be treated separately. Through probing and optimizing exercises, this phase nurtures select seedlings while developing combinatory logics, or ground rules, and establishing a site as an emerging structural matrix.
When a possible site has been established, it is analyzed to reveal both rhizomatic and hierarchical qualities. Here, as in crystallography, cellular formations and infrastructural networks are tested for their integrity and stability as well as for their deviations, dislocations and enclosures. Potential points of intervention are identified and internal growth is manipulated and exaggerated through external reference.
Finally, aberrations emerge from the meshwork and become objects of architectural speculation further guided by the programmatic demands of a gym.
Requirements:
Final model Fitness Studio
Final model Detail
Plan Fitness Studio
Sections Fitness Studio
Final model Fitness Studio:
Scale 1/4" = 1'0"
Basswood from sheets 1/16", 1/4", 1/2"
limit 9x18x24
The final Fitness Studio model is the most comprehensive piece of your design work. It is a proposal that answers to core architectural demands, such as structure, shelter, program and circulation.
It will be read in context with and against your midterm field model (basswood limit 6x18x24) and show how much the default tectonic field - the site - has emerged and grown into an occupied building structure. Though based on the same tectonic language, the final model will differ significantly from its predecessor. While the midterm model established a language, the final model uses that language to compose a building.
While the midterm model was general, open and low-res., your final model is SPECIFIC, ENCLOSING and HIGH-RES.:
The final model is SPECIFIC in its response to the volumetric demands of your body in exercise. The body envelope (result of body analysis assignment 11) is understood as a measure of the human figure to support your sense of scale; it is also understood as a generator of specific spatial characteristic acting upon the structure, expanding the field and leaving traces of its spatial identity (It is not the sufficient volumetric expanse for a room as a restrictive program envelope).
The final model is also specific to the circulation derived from the project's exercise routine. The Fitness Studio is made up of a specific sequence of performance spaces generating a spatial continuum. The circulation space overlaps and loops providing for moments of contemplation and isolation as well as spaces of interaction and gathering. With the final model in hand you can give a 'walk through' of the Fitness Studio.
The final model is ENCLOSING as it provides the primal architectural function of shelter. The degree of openess and juxtaposition of open and enclosed space is specific to the programmatic needs of each exercise routine. However, each Fitness Studio provides some amount of enclosed space that allows for protection from environmental forces. Building entries and openings are articulated with great care to define these moments of transition. Outdoor spaces providing room for parts of the exercise routine are defined as performance ground and distinguished form the default site by the level of built-in resolution. At very few moments the final model resembles the midterm model; it is the uninhabited parts that communicate the transition to the general field.
The final model is a HIGH-RESOLUTION model that incorporates a specific tectonic syntax on dramatically different scales. The finer the grain the more responsive the building fabric to the programmatic demands. It is a high-resolution structure that incorporates distinctly different hierarchical levels that perform together as one coherent structure.
The structure of the final model is of much higher definition than the midterm field model. The final model not only passes the physical 'shake test' of structural stability; but it reveals a clear understanding of the system's hierarchical qualities. Primary load bearing elements are distinguishable from secondary elements and enclosure, screening modules.
Functional differences among building parts are incorporated. Walkable surfaces are treated differently than ceiling surfaces. Haptic, visual and lighting conditions are discussed on the model's smallest scale.
Final model Detail:
Scale 1/2" = 1'0"
Basswood from sheets 1/16",1/4", 1/2"
The detail model provides an opportunity to discuss in depth the structural, material and phenomenological qualities of you architectural proposal. Issues like Scaled tectonics, Hierarchies, Joinery, Visual and Haptic properties can be developed at an adequate scale. The raw material (Basswood from sheets 1/16, 1/4, 1/2) is the same as for the 1/4 scale model to encourage a high level of fine articulation and craft. Sectional build up of wood profiles may be necessary. The selection of the detailed area is crucial; it shall incorporate a standard moment reoccurring throughout the Fitness Studio and it shall cover all main building elements.
Plan Fitness Studio:
Scale 1/4" = 1'0"
Pencil on vellum 18" x 24"
A plan view drawing or horizontal section (plan) gives an overview of the Site-Structure relation, Circulation and Program distribution. It differs significantly from the default site plan (midterm) as it incorporates the architectural proposal.
Sections Fitness Studio:
Scale 1/4" = 1'0"
Pencil on vellum 18" x 24"
A selection of generative site sections, horizontal and longitudinal, gives an account of the spatial sequences within the inhabited structural matrix at human scale.
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