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Plans

PRELIMINARY PLANS (IN PROGRESS)

These are the preliminary plans for my design. As I work on my model they will be updated. Included are the first, second and third plans. The first floor layout involves the lobby/reception, bathrooms, mech. rooms and access to outdoor pool. The second floor layout involves a multi-purpose basketball court, locker rooms and a running track that is open in the middle looking down on the pool. The third and final layout involves a batting cage/ pitching room, as well as a restaurant/ sports bar area for watching sports on t.v.

Revised Design (In Progress)

After speaking and receiving comments I have revised my structure to have more or an organic flowing feeling. Since I want to mainly engage the site by referencing the water, I designed my structure to have somewhat have the shape of a wave. The entrance is the start of the wave and as you make your way in the wave builds up its energy (where the activities are) until it crashes and becomes the small waves, depicted at the back which is my rental shop.

Prelim Design Sketches

Preliminary Design

Hybrid Model

I took the smaller study models  I have made, chose the best two and combined them into this study model. We had to make it so it starts to form internal and external spaces, to begin our preliminary design. 

In this structure I can envision my reception and bathroom located on the first floor leading up to the second and third floors where all the activities will be located.

PROGRAM STUDY MODELS

 From our program collages of what we wanted to include in our designs, we developed three models to abstractly represent them. Since my design is a sports recreation center, I can up with these three study models. The first depicts a gum wrapper and a paper mesh. I wanted to show a sports field so the mesh represents  turf (which a lot of sports are played on) and the wrapper represents cleats which are used to play the sports. The second model depicts two wood sticks and a mesh connecting the two. This model show both my program and also connection; it represents the connection players on the same team have. Without that connection they would not be able to play to their full capabilities together. The third model depicts a wooden ball and paper mesh draped over it. The ball represents the sports that is being played and the mesh represents the fans. This is represented like this because all sports that are played, take place lower than and in the middle of their fans.

CONNECTION STUDY MODELS

From my collage designed by the inspiration of connection, I came up with these three study models. The first model represents the telescope and the bridge connecting two separate areas of a space, like I feel the water connects both Brooklyn and Manhattan. The second model represents the Olympics and molecule images. It shows two different caps, one on the surface and the other breaking through, with a paperclip connecting  the two. This depicts how although people from the other side of the world consider each other different, were are all the same in a way. The third model represents the chain and how it connects something to amother material. It depicts the connection on the top and bottom surfaces.

SITE FEELING STUDY MODELS

When we visited the site, I had the feeling of loneliness, sadness and abandonment. From those feelings we had to design a collage that represented those feelings abstractly.
 Model 1 depicts popsicle sticks breaking through the surface descending in height, and a gum wrapper. This represents the feeling I had as we moved toward the very sad and gloomy site. The sticks height signify the feeling as we moved toward the site, and the gum wrapper (garbage) signifies the abandoned feeling.
Model 2 depicts a tall popsicle stick looking down on two other sticks low to the floor. The tall popsicle stick represents the tall factories that seemed to be abandoned, and the smaller sticks closer to the ground represent the sad feeling that was felt on the site.

Model 3 depicts a single circular stick and a mesh that comes over it. This represents my lonely, abandoned feeling. The lonely stick represents a graffiti artist, mainly because they work alone. A lot of graffiti is found on abandoned buildings, because there is usually no security, or walking traffic around the area. The mesh round him represents his flow of ideas, that is capturing him to the site keeping him lonely.

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