Victor Cha: Freestyle Skiing Training Dorm

Project Objective: design a dormitory facility that will house Olympic Athletes as they train.

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Freestyle Skiing: An Overview

        For this project, a Winter Olympic Sport was to be selected, and I chose Freestyle Skiing. Of all the Winter Olympic sports, Freestyle Skiing is the most diverse, boasting 6 different disciplines– Aerials, Moguls, Ski Cross, Halfpipe, Slopestyle, and Big Air. Each discipline, although sharing some similarities, have their own core, distinctive features. Aerials involve jumping after accelerating down a ramp, and Moguls consists of going down a mounded slope with a few ramps in the path. Ski Cross is like Moto Cross but with skis, and Halfpipe, like the name suggests, consists of jumps on a halfpipe. Slopestyle and Big Air are pretty similar; they both involve jumping off ramps and doing tricks while getting as much altitude as possible. But the overarching principle throughout all the disciplines is that athletes are scored based on how fast they can complete the course and the level of difficulty of the tricks that they do. 
       

Site: Deer Valley Resort - Park City, Utah

       In the United States, there are numerous training sites for Olympic Skiers of which, I chose Deer Valley Resort, located in Park City, Utah. Deer Valley resort was commissioned as an official training site for Freestyle Skiing in 2019, in preparation for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The site, being situated in the Wasatch Range, is well suited for Olympic Skiers, as they would have direct access to the ski trails. 

Preliminary Design Concepts

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Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

Olympic Dorm - Final Model Development

For this portion of the project, I had settled on my 3rd design. This design allowed athletes to easily access the ski slopes, as the building contains an exit that directly connects to a ski course. 

From the parti, I developed a program for the building. Although it was not accurate yet, it allowed me to further develop and explore ideas for my floor plans. 

​These floor plans were created from the program. This plan was mostly accurate and for the most part, directly translated to my study model, Sketchup model, and Revit file.

With the Revit model, I was able to make a final model. The site was made using sketchup and autocad.