ARCH 322 WINTER 2025
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II
ARCH 322 - WINTER 2025ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II
COORDINATOR
Yojairo Lomeli
PROFESSORS
Tess Clancy, Mick Kennedy, Yojairo Lomeli, Francesca Mavaracchio, Athar Mufreh, Jono SturtField House - A Sports Hall
Originally, a side building next to an outdoor sports field, that could house equipment, or changing rooms, a field house has become a building for indoor sports, in a sense growing to house the field.
Increasingly access to sport facilities is privatized limiting access to wellness and fitness, space for play, and sport within the city. The shift to housing fields, is also climatically related. Ball sports can now be played year round in cold climates, as well as climates that are rapidly heating up. These buildings typically expend energy to condition the temperature of the large spaces within and are generally poorly equipped to sustain those temperatures.
Spaces such as these are flexible in their capacities to mark the boundaries of multiple sports, but also to serve as spaces of assembly, voting centers and shelters in time of emergency. They can be thought of as general purpose buildings that can "field" a wide range of programming, staging a contradiction between the highly specific and choreographed performances they intend to house, and the sometimes other less ruled programs they also service.
Students design Sport Halls to site the practice and performance of an indoor sport and its associated field of play. Every studio focused on basketball in order to design towards the siting of that sport's specific constraints, measures, and routines. Sport acts to pressurize the building in how a student establishes an architecture that can both site the sport and sport's measure, and in a sense framing literally and figuratively the body or performance.
STUDENT
Anthony Miller
PROFESSOR
Tess Clancy
Three axes occur: horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. The conflicting orientation of the program creates a contrast between larger and smaller programs, introducing a spatial hierarchy throughout the design. Along the diagonal axis, the larger programs, which include the courts, bleachers, and seating areas, operate in these main areas. The horizontal and vertical secondary spaces contain smaller programs such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and offices.
Therefore, the project explores possibilities of mirroring forms across different axes. By reflecting elements in these directions, the design creates a dialogue between symmetry and contrast. The horizontal and vertical program evokes a sense of balance and stability, while the diagonal mirroring introduces movement, repetition, and tension throughout the space.
STUDENT
Zoe Blackburn
PROFESSOR
Tess Clancy
This project explores a hinge between triangular volumes in plan that organizes circulation between the indoor and outdoor courts. Perception of the form becomes more rectilinear through the framing of a curtain and locker rooms along the interior court. Staggered windows along the courtside ramp reveal continuity between the courts, while perception on the exterior blurs at the apparent intersection of rooflines visible from the exterior court.
STUDENT
Alexandra Mercier
PROFESSOR
Mick Kennedy
This fieldhouse studies how to dematerialize the edges of the building through the sequence of its transitional spaces. Through using landscaping elements, the fieldhouse begins to unravel itself into the surrounding site. The Garden Pavilion houses the program of a donkey basketball fieldhouse. It acts as a neighborhood hub for animal engagement, watching a game, or just walking to the river on a nice day.
STUDENT
Paige Osterkamp
PROFESSOR
Mick Kennedy
Within this project, my studio was tasked with designing a field house on an existing site, using topographical manipulation, with the goal of housing donkey basketball. In addition to this criteria, my project aims to explore what I argue is the symbiotic relationship between landscaping and architectural elements, in which landscaping can be used to shape the form of and experiences within spaces. At the site scale, the use of landscaping elements guides the movement of people into the field house’s spaces. The existing trees act as natural buffers between the property and surrounding environment. The space between the trees act as windows.The flowering shrubs behave as fences, guiding ones path up from the river to the field house. These curated moments aim to showcase the powerful experiential relationship between landscape and architecture.
STUDENT
Olivia Wilcox
PROFESSOR
Yojairo Lomeli
In this fieldhouse, the roof becomes both a lower limit and a horizontal limit to space. This roof organizes individual houses and fields into several rooms, and then further unifies these rooms into one fieldhouse. Three resulting courts exist in tension between inside and outside, proximity and separation, player and spectator. The roof court imitates a pick-up court’s informality, hiding the extent of the fieldhouse on arrival. The middle level family court exists as an outdoor room, unconditioned, but within the bounds of the fieldhouse. The lower court is fully indoors and meant for more organized sport.
STUDENT
Lilijana Gregov
PROFESSOR
Yojairo Lomeli
Emerging from a simple grid of sixteen squares, this field house evolves into a complex system of concrete cubes, steel frames, and mechanical components that shift, and regulate transient climates. Industrial mechanisms animate this house to breathe, rarely existing at a uniform temperature. Half of the primary court sits inside the building's footprint, divided by 32' swinging doors which collective human force could move, reinforcing reciprocity between the structure and occupant. One half is active and light-filled; the other is grounded and humid. Through industrial tectonics the building mimics us—our movement, energy, and temperature states are supported by the architecture.
STUDENT
Olivia Ott
PROFESSOR
Francesca Mavaracchio
This one-story basketball fieldhouse embodies the concept of introversion through spatial organization and selective views. Set within a square footprint and partially embedded in the ground, the building turns inward, concealing the court from exterior view. An outer ring of support programs forms a protective perimeter around a sunken basketball court. Exterior openings allow views into the exterior ring of programs, but never into the court itself. A catwalk encircles the court at grade, providing access to the court and a controlled visual spectacle of the central space. The project prioritizes interior focus and layered thresholds, reinforcing an introspective environment.
STUDENT
Rachel Chen
PROFESSOR
Francesca Mavaracchio
Using “exposed” as the guiding concept, the design explores the idea that exposure requires protection to be experienced. The form balances moments of enclosure and openness: solid walls shield the interior space, while full-height glass walls deliberately expose interior spaces to the surrounding.
There are four distinct exterior walls, each engaging differently with the idea of exposure. One wall is partially embedded into the natural topography, with half of it revealed and the other half protected by the earth. Another wall is composed entirely of glazing, using full-height windows to expose the entire court to the surrounding exterior surfaces. In contrast to this to this transparent facade there is a fully solid and protective wall that encloses the space laterally, while remaining completely open to the sky above.
STUDENT
Noorhan Moustafa
PROFESSOR
Athar Mufreh
Rather than relying on enclosure, the Inner Court allows spatial definition to emerge through landscape, occupation, and gradation.
A sloped terrain becomes both entry and inhabitable ground, blurring the boundary between circulation and gathering. Pocket parks emerge within the larger volume, creating moments of pause within the athletic field. These interior landscapes frame space without disrupting it, allowing community members and players to share a continuous environment.
Enclosure is replaced by terrain, redefining the fieldhouse as a shared topography where sport and community coexist.