TTU College of Architecture // DESIGN PROMPT // ARCH 3502 // Spring 2017

ARCH 3502 // SPRING 2017 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO VI COMMUNITY FITNESS CENTER “Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.”

– Tim Parsey Yahoo Design Officer

"I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big."

– Rem Koolhaas, S, M, L, XL

“You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.”

- Michael Phelps, Olympic Champion

PREMISE This design studio contemplates complexity at three scales; urban connections, programmatic intensity, and architectural tectonics. PROMPT Architecture is often a juggling act of varying complexities. From cultural, social, climate, environmental, and ecological realities of a site, to client’s programmatic concerns and the inevitability of building code, structural realities and mechanical means – architecture requires an extensive array of knowledges to fully orchestrate a cohesive and successful design. This semester builds on the first “complex” studio [3501], which introduced structural logics alongside notions of program, site, and environmental systems. This studio, as the culmination of the foundational undergraduate design sequence introduces the complexities of a building that negotiates private and public functions while connecting meaningfully to the fabric of the city. The notion of complexity in architecture, and architecture as urban impetus, has been discussed and written about for nearly half a century. From Venturi’s ‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’ (1966), Rem Koolhaas’ ‘Delirious New York’ (1978) and Bernard Tschumi’s ‘Manhattan Transcripts’ (1981), which guided various theoretical and realized projects from Archigram, MVDRV, OMA, REX and several others. We begin with three questions: How can a multiplicity of programmatic scales be organized while maintaining the volumetric differentiation? How can architecture reinforce existing, multivalent urban contexts; extending the public space into a building? How can structure, material and building envelope convey architectural intent? SITE Understanding of “site” should be in the broadest sense of the word - reaching beyond the aspects of the individual lot, to base a context for design, and root this community fitness center within the local, intermediate, and global context of architectural connections. Site: should be no longer than a single city block Context: must be urban – having complex transit + infrastructural adjacencies. Access: to the site should be accessible by public transportation, walking or vehicle READINGS Rem Koolhaas. ‘Downtown Athletic Club’ from Delirious New York (1978) Bernard Tschumi. ‘Events and Spaces’ from Manhattan Transcripts (1981)

TTU College of Architecture // DESIGN PROMPT // ARCH 3502 // Spring 2017

COMMUNITY FITNESS CENTER AREA SCHEDULE Public Zone Building Lobby 1,100 sf Admissions Control 350 sf

Juice / Coffee Bar 1,500 sf Restrooms (2) @ 80 sf/ea 160 sf* Public Lobby Total 3,110 sf Administration

Staff Offices [4 @ 150 sf / ea] 600 sf Director’s Office 250 sf Administration Assistant 150 sf Storage + Copy Area 150 sf Administrative Total 1,150 sf Activity Zone

Basketball Court [NCAA regulation size 94’L x 50’W x 16’H(min)] 4,700 sf Observation Area 1,250 sf Fitness / Lap Pool 25 M - four lanes [82’ L x 28’ W x 5’ D] 2,300 sf Pool Deck 1,000 sf

Aquatics Office / Lifeguard 160 sf Filtration + Storage 450 sf

Climbing Wall [30’ L x 10’ D x 30’ H] 600 sf Racquetball Court [3 @ 40’ L x 20’ W x 20’ H] 2,400 sf Large Group Exercise 2,100 sf Yoga / Medium Group Exercise [2 @ 900 sf/ea 1,800 sf Small Group Exercise [3 @ 500 sf/ea 1,500 sf

Restrooms [2 @ 80 sf/ea] 160 sf* Activity Zone Total 18,420 sf Locker Rooms Locker Area [2 @ 400 sf/ea] 800 sf Changing Area [2 @ 200 sf/ea] 400 sf Restrooms [2 @ 400 sf/ea] 800 sf*

++ Should include (4) showers, (4) toilets + (4) urinals / ea Sauna [2 @ 100 sf/ea] 200 sf Locker Room Total 2,200 sf Support Zone / Service Loading / Service Area 500 sf

Trash Area 100 sf Laundry Room 200 sf Electrical Room 200 sf Mechanical Room 500 sf General Building Storage 400 sf Support Zone / Service Total 1,900 sf

Total Community Fitness Center Program 26,780 sf

Ancillary Exterior Space Public Plaza / Crossfit 2,000 sf 20% Allowance for circulation, structure, mechanical, etc. 5,350 sf* Total Net (including exterior space + 20% allowance) 34,130 sf * These numbers are estimates, and should be revised and updated based on code requirements. ++ As with the dynamic nature of any program, the room names and sizes are given as recommendations subject to refinement and development. Drawings that give you an understanding of relative sizes (300sq.ft. v 2000 sq.ft.) are valuable, but please avoid the temptation to let square footage and program drive your project. These should instead support and demonstrate a broader understanding of systematic relationships and further your personal design concept.

TTU College of Architecture // DESIGN PROMPT // ARCH 3502 // Spring 2017

PRECEDENT LIST Community Space Precedents -SOS Children's Villages Lavezzorio Community Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Studio Gang -McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Chicago, IL, USA

OMA, Rem Koolhaas -Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA, USA

OMA, Rem Koolhaas -Stephen Lawrence Centre, London, England

Adjaye Associates -Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Diller Scofidio + Renfro -Saynatsalo Town Hall, Finland

Alvar Aalto -LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, USA

Peter Pfau & Jane Cee -Lavin-Bernik Center for University Life, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

Vincent James Associates Architects -Walkerville Civic & Community Centre, Walkerville, Australia

JPE Design Studio -Texas Hillel Center, Austin, TX, USA

Alterstudio

Fitness / Recreational Precedents -BRIDGES Center, Memphis, TN, USA

Buildingstudio/Coleman Coker Architects -Gary Comer Youth Center, Chicago, IL, USA

John Ronan Architects -Bill R. Foster and Family Recreation Center, Springfield, MO, USA

Cannon Design -San Wayao Community Sports Center, Sichuan Sheng, China CSWADI Architects -Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects - Sports Technification Centre For Rowing And Canoeing, Orio, Spain U.T.E. Atristain Begiristain - University of Colorado Wellness Center, Denver, CO, USA Brailsford & Dunlavey Complex Program Precedents -Museum Plaza, Louisville, KY, USA

REX Architects -Market Hall / Markthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands

MVDRV -Villa VPRO, Hilversum, Netherlands

MVDRV -La Tourette, Rue de Lyon, France

Le Corbusier -Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA, USA

Le Corbusier -Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

Herzog de Mueron -VIA 57 West, New York, NY, USA

Bjarke Ingels Group