Kailynn Stone - Architectural Design II
Project 01 - Olympic Residential Facility
The goal of this project was to create a housing facility for athletes that successfully represents the chosen sport. Though not just any athletes, athletes from a specific Winter Olympic Team. The site of this project was to be one adjacent to a recognized US Olympic Training Center. The design had to succeed in housing the entire team, accommodating to both genders, and coaches.
Research
I ended up choosing Snowboarding as my sport. We started studying the Beijing 2022 Sport Pictograms and learning why and how they got to that depiction. After many hours of snowboarding videos and websites, I learned about the rules, forms, and paths of my sport. I explored how freeing the sport can be even when having rules. This led to my snowboarding diagram designs. The first one is an abstraction of a very common form snowboarders take on. The second one is the same thing, just added dimension. In my third one, I illustrated the path these athletes take as they go down the halfpipe. The fourth one is actually an image I captured from one of Sean White's video. Then the last one depicts the famous celebration snowboarders usually do, which is them holding their hands high with a snowboard in one hand.
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Snowboarding Infographic |
Site AnalysisAfter studying my site in Park City, Utah, I learned some important information about the land. Because my future facility will be located next to other buildings, I want to
find a way to integrate the parking lots together. I also learned about the solar path and even watched an animation to see how the sun goes over the site. I noticed that the site is next to a highway, so I'll have to take that noise into account when making rooms for my players. Although, this highway does make it easily accessible to enter the site. There is also a gorgeous view on the south side of the site that faces snowboarding courses, mountains, and many more. Then I also learned about my wind directions, which doesn't look like it'll interfere much with the courses behind the building. Because I figured out my solar path and primary views, this could definitely impact where I place the bedrooms. I want the players to wake up to the morning sunshine and look outside their window and get excited to train. |
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Concept Designs
Concept OneAfter studying snowboarding, I connected the sport to the binary of chaos and order. I wanted to explore that idea in this design.
Shapes like circles, squares and rectangles have a certain order or precision them rather than shapes like a star. Taking these four shapes, I tried to almost clash them together to bring out the binary of chaos vs. order. During this "chaos", in the center I designed a triangle that I thought of as a place of tranquility. This also represents chaos vs order as it shows order created by chaos. |
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Concept TwoOlympic snowboarders have a very traditional celebration. They are known for raising their snowboard above their head as they cheer in victory. This design is based off of that exact form.
Taking the victory celebration, I deconstructed that form. The two pillars seen in front represent the forearms, while the curve like rood represents the snowboard. |
Concept ThreeBefore drawing this design, I explored the different courses of snowboarding. All of these courses had some sort of curves apart of its shape. Snowboarding also has a lot of influence from skateboarding, which is known for its ramps.
With this design, I wanted to incorporate curve-like structures and communicate snowboarding successfully. |
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Final Design
Concept Design
Moving into our final design development, I wanted something more than my pervious concepts. I felt they were too literal and did not communicate my idea the way I wanted them to.
I decided to design something in between concept one and concept two. I felt the viewing deck was appropriate for my site, and I still wanted to communicate those curved structures. This was important to me because of what it represents for my sport. Another thing I wanted to include in my design was "chaos vs order" concept. I ended up having a vision that made sure to include all of these aspects. I communicated this through my study model and SketchUp.
I decided to design something in between concept one and concept two. I felt the viewing deck was appropriate for my site, and I still wanted to communicate those curved structures. This was important to me because of what it represents for my sport. Another thing I wanted to include in my design was "chaos vs order" concept. I ended up having a vision that made sure to include all of these aspects. I communicated this through my study model and SketchUp.
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Study ModelTo communicate my ideas better, I turned to hand made models. I wanted my building to be curved, unlike my SketchUp model. I was also able to color-code this model to the matching rooms and spaces.
At first, I had planned for the dorms to be under the right and left side of the sloped roof. Then the public access would be able to navigate through the building to access the viewing deck without interfering with the private space. I felt as if my SketchUp model communicated the materials and basic concept, while the study model expressed the rooms and structure of my building. There ended up being design problems I would soon later fix. Also, I had always been working in 1/16th in. scale, but I ended scaling my building up. |
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Revit Model
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Moving forward with my study model design and scaling the building size up, I started to design my Revit model. Using this program, I was able to finalize my floor plans, elevations, and materials.
In order to keep the private and public from interfering with each other, I designed a way for visitors to get to the viewing deck by utilizing the lobby, elevators, and a "secret" hallway. Around these areas, I designed a living space, kitchen, dining area, lockerooms, a gym, dorms, meeting rooms, and etc. for the athletes. |
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