Baseline Mélange
Social Justice through Recreation and Community Phoenix, Arizona
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The Baseline Mélange offers the South Phoenix community a space to bridge athletic and social activity. In a community with economic, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, this space offers unity. The program consists of large focal dance spaces and indoor and outdoor pools. Dance and swim serve as equalizers that foster physical activity while stripping away social barriers. These large focal spaces act as public plazas for both the design and community. Smaller, support programmatic elements surround. Just as swim and dance strip away social and economic status, unnecessary material is stripped away from the design. The STATISTICS exposed structure and abundance of glazingDEMOGRAPHIC offers a sense of stripped-down transparency and visual connection between the community and the facility.
Dance Disregards Economic Status No Language Barrier
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Unites Cultures
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Intergenerational Social Justice
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Marinilla Educational Park, Antioquia, Colombia, El Equipo de Mazzanti 2016 an exploration of the case study’s structure was conducted. two and three dimensional drawings were created to document and understand the structural elements of the building, along with an analysis of the social justice impact of the project
the structural drawings from the case study were placed at scale onto the South Phoenix site. the structure was treated like a pattern, repeated onto the site. multiple iterations were produced in order to create a composition
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Freedom is Back, Phoenix, Arizona, Fortoul Brothers, 2018 a study was conducted of an art piece, and its relation to social justice. the art piece was then overlay onto the site and structure to create another composition. again, multiple iterations were conducted.
Step 4 the final composition was manipulated in three dimensions. this final manipulation ultimately became the starting point for the Baseline Mélange design.
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Swimming Pool Water Filter
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Parking Dance Space
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Entry Cafe Kitchen Administration Dance Space Dance Studio Mechanical Indoor Pool Sauna Locker Room Lifeguard Break Event Space
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Water Pumped from Canal Plants Naturally Filter Water Natural Swimming Pool
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Outdoor Pool Deck
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Interior Pool
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ADE 521: Fall 2018 Grad Architecture Studio I
Student: Jules Byers Instructor: Claudio Vekstein
20’