Social Cultural Inventory + Analysis

by | Oct 8, 2021 | pre_design, site

Social Cultural Inventory + Analysis

Design Principles + Guidelines

  • Minimal aesthetics with historical  or make a statement for the national participants that come to the site
  • Consider limiting the height of the building to not block natural floral and fawn, as well as not dwarfing existing structures in Lowell.
  • Large influx of visitors during various events require good circulation, ease of access, and proximity to the water for viewing
  • Proximity to services and amenities
  • Must make the community center accessible and inviting to the local population
  • The high percentage of older inhabitants require undemanding egress and ingress to the site
  • Seasonal events of various scale require a versatile space to serve each events purpose
  • Opportunity recognize the negative colonial past of the area

Center for High Yieled

by | Oct 7, 2021 | case study

Center for High Yield

The Center for high yield caters to Olympic-level athletes. It’s a space that pays homage to the culture of its surrounding environment while using architectural strategies to create order and focus. The architect split the complex into three zones (Training, Sleeping, Social) and placed them with the intention of emphasizing the mindset needed while occupying these spaces. The training area is at the bottom of the complex and orients itself towards the center of the complex turning its back on the outside world. This was done to allow the athletes training there to be able to focus completely on the task at hand. The sleeping quarters are semi-buried in the middle of the complex allowing the athletes to have a cozy, dark, quiet space where they can sleep and study. The social areas are at the top of the complex and also orient themselves towards the center of the complex, but because of its vantage point, it allows the interior space to grab the views and pull them into the interior space prompting community and identity.

Sports Technification Centre

by | Oct 6, 2021 | case study, pre_design

Sports Technification Centre

Sports Technification Centre is a project of extension and reform of the existing building of Olympic Rowing Orio´s Club that located between the areas of Aia and Orio in Spain, build by U.T.E. Atristain Begiristain in 2012.

  • Locate in front of a hillside
  • As a role of Communications Hub for rowers
  • These continuous structures and formal extension of the building is the emblematic element for the city of Orio
  • Unique colunms are easily associate to the port
  • Most spaces are used for fitness
  • Recreation space
  • The ground level are mainly used as storage for boats
  • Models
  • First floor plan
  • Second floor plan
  • Ground floor plan

River & Rowing Museum

by | Oct 6, 2021 | case study, pre_design

River & Rowing Museum

The River & Rowing Museum explores the River Thames and the international sport of rowing. This museum includes galleries that provide interactive displays and international collections. The building was inspired by the local river boathouses and traditional wooden barns of Oxfordshire.

Harry Parker Community Rowing Boathouse

by | Oct 6, 2021 | case study

Introduction

This Community Rowing Boathouse located in Boston, Massachusetts was designed to provides a home for the largest public rowing organization in the country and supports more than half the rowers on the Charles River.