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Beginning with "site-less" material studies, we began exploring possible landscape changes and entrances into the building. Rather than building up material, we choose to follow a strict "cut and fill" process, by which the amount of mass we built up was precisely the volume that we moved from the site. The last images depicts a small scale representation of this.

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Our site for the aquatic center, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Due to the scale of the site, which covers approximately 400,000 square feet of the urban landscape, pedestrian access and use of the existing surrounding sites was a major concern. The bottom image uses materials extracted from the site, in an abstract representation of the existing conditions.

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Precedent studies: understanding the program for a large scale water-based project, as well as the long-span structural systems.

Spring 2009: 01

Course: Comprehensive Design II, Arch 302
Professor: Sal Tranchina
Partner: Samora Hodges-Smikle

Goal: Design an aquatic center with a long-span structural system for the Brooklyn community, located between Lorimer St. and Leonard St. in Brooklyn, NY.

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Renders of the final product.

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Illustrated in the first section is the ample gallery space in the corridors, as well as the gym and outdoor space. The second section shows the significant open art space on the ground floor, the light well that runs through the building, and the alternating stair cases that lead to the galleries within the corridors.

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Realistic plumbling strategies and Americans with Disabilities Act regulations were a new concern for our designs. As seen in the first section, we designed for four riser pipes throughout the building. Also seen below are the three light wells.

The second section highlights the gallery spaces within the building, as well as the gym on the 9th floor, and facade on the 10th floor.