AQUATIC COMMUNITY CENTER

Academic Project | Fall 2022 | Comprehensive Design

The site is located in Little Haiti at the intersection between NE 71st Street and the Metromover train on the east side. My concept focuses on the significance of the pool as a place where people can come together. A place where people of all races, ages, genders can feel safe and welcomed. This can be physically seen as the building is carved out at the center by this glass box in which you are able to view the main swimming pool from every floor and creating its own social spaces around it. The inspiration for the facade was to find a way to integrate the water concept by having a vertical rainwater collection system that connects from the roof down to the second floor through a series of wire meshes filled with vines and planters at every 7 feet to help bring a bit of greenery and vegetation where people can use to harvest crops and collect rain water.

Site Analysis

With the site located in Little Haiti, I discovered there aren’t many pools that are open to the public except the one all the way west called the Range Pool and this small one in Magic City Center. In a place like Little Haiti where the majority of the population are blacks and haitian people, they have faced their own history of racial discrimination surrounding pools in which they have been violently assaulted for attempting to enter these public spaces that are meant to be for everyone.

Process Diagrams

The first iteration of sketching and calculating the square footages for my required programs and see what can fit. The concept of importance of water is shown through the integration of three water features with the main pool being at the center and the main attraction. The entrance is intended to be either located on the north or east side.

The second iteration continues that trend of the pool at the center and entrance on the east side. The parking has been calculated and completed in order to now focus on the rest of the programs.

The final iteration consists of more open space and horizontal circulation with the inclusion of a coffee shop and mechanical rooms on the first floor. On the south side, there locates a ramp that takes you up to the second floor where the parking lot is located.

ARC5361 U02

Integrated Comprehensive Design Fall 2022

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