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.