the
exo dus of the city
a FITNESS camp +’SUB’ UBRAN farm
The exodus of the city is an architecture exploration addressing an issue coexist between the public and private realm. This project deals with the issue of obesity from the physical aspect but also internalised aspect by exploring a solution that investigates into peoples relationship with food. In term of the programme is based as a fitness camp, a place in which one can retreat from one realm to another for the sake self betterment. Which inspired by Rem Koolhaas’s Exodus, other voluntary prisons of architecture Of Camp by Charlie Haley. Architecturally this project is based of exploring the coexistence between pre-existing spaces and infrastructure, in this case a row she like factories. This notion of coexistence is developed through the concept of dimensionality which is expressed through a dialectic breakdown of the site looking beyond the physical site forces developing a metaphysical perspective. This perspective of dimensionality was applied through how one transverses to one to place to another, the connections within site sensitivity and investigating the overarching narrative to self betterment in communicating an experience
project background
focal points
THE aGRIcultural condition
(LOCAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVES) 1:1500
LEICESTER CITY RESIDENTIAL MATRIX GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY The
origins of the old GCR may be traced back to the earliest Manchester. What was to become Great Central Railway was the amalgamation January, 1847 of the Sheffield, Ashton under Lyme & Manchester, the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction, the Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railways, and the Grimsby Dock Company. The area of operation of the MSLR is clear in its title
days of railways in and around identifiable as the on first of
and its reason for existence and principal traffic was the movement
Pennine moorland and Woodhead Tunnel. The nationalisation of the railways in 1948 led to the Great Central metals becoming part of the Eastern Region of British Railways. In 1958 the ex-Great Central was re-allocated to the Midland Region of British Railways and so were sown the seeds of its decline as a main line to London. of coal and other goods across the harsh through the
PHYSICAL MATRIX
HISTORICAL DATA INDUSTRIALISM IN LEICESTER In
the late
revolution.
18th century Leicester was transformed by the industrial The Soar Canal was completed in 1794 and it allowed an
engineering industry to grow up by providing a cheap way of transporting
GRID ON SITE
Leicester. The shirt trade in Leicester began in 1796. New industries grew up in Leicester during the 19th century. Engineering flourished after the Britannia ironworks was opened in 1804. A much larger works, the Vulcan works opened in Welford Road in 1878. The Boot and shoemaking industry boomed. In 1831 there were only 425 boot and shoemakers in Leicester. By 1861 there were 2,741. The elastic web industry began in 1839 when a factory opened in Southgate. Leicester was described in a magazine in 1909: it is difficult to think of Leicester as a town of considerable industrial importance. The impression remains with one of a clear and sunny atmosphere with wide streets, clean brick buildings and a constant background of green trees. The boot and hosiery factories appear to give out little or no smoke. coal and iron into
(each square ref to 1000m²)
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SITE (PARKER DRIVE) ALLOTMENT GARDENS LOCAL FARMS
SURROUNDING AREAS UNDER 55% PREVALENCE
RESIDENTIAL SPACE (in proximity to the site)W
60- 65% PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT + OBESTITY
TOPOGRAPHY
70% + PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT
CENSUS ON DEPRIVATION
LEICESTER ABBEY REMAINS 1143 – 1538 (DEMOLISHED) It was founded in 1138-9 as an abbey of Augustinian canons by Robert ‘le Bossu’ (the hunchback), the second Earl of Leicester. Earl Robert transferred to the abbey the lands that his father had used to endow a college of canons at St Mary de Castro. The abbey was also granted all the other churches in Leicester, together with a number in Leicestershire and further afield. The abbey was dissolved in 1538 and demolished soon afterwards. In the later 16th century, the Hastings family converted the gatehouse into a mansion; this was enlarged by the next owners, the Cavendishes, in the early 17th century, before being burnt down in 1645, during the Civil War.
LEICESTER STADIUM OPENED 1923 - CLOSED 1984 EVENTS: Greyhound racing Speedway BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars In 1923 the site chosen for Leicester Stadium was an area of land in north Leicester near the Blackbird Road. The exact location was on the north side of where the Parkers Drive met Somerset Avenue. Greyhound racing became extremely popular in the county of Leicestershire with tracks at Aylestone Road in south Leicester and the nearby town of Coalville already hosting tracks that had opened in 1927. Leicester Stadium opened on Saturday 26 May 1928 with six heats of the Quorn Open sweepstakes and a hurdle race completing the seven-race card. Eleven thousand spectators (including the Mayor Alderman Thomas) attended and watched Barley Leader become the first ever winner over 525 yards at odds of 4-7f. Trainers King, Hulme, Glover and Barton all picked up winners on that first night at the venue that was known at the time as ‘The Stadium’. Speedway soon followed costing £30,000 to construct the
https://www.storyofleicester.info/faith-belief/leicester-abbey/
dirt track inside the greyhound circuit and the first speedway meeting on
6 September 1928, with sidecar racing also staged that year.
- An urban exploration into the preservation of the existing and prexisting element throughout the locality of the site MOST ECONOMICAL DEPREIVED AREAS FOOD DESERTS (hotspots where good nutritional food is unavailable)
- A photomontage proposing the idea of the cross programming between a fitness camp and suburban “urban farm”. Inspired from bernard Tscumis concept of deframiliarisation the collage expresses an idea of reverse engineering the existing condtions allowing events and activities to overthrow the condition to bridge a gap and bring back life in suburban communities.
People often think about wellness in terms of physical health — nutrition, exercise, weight management, etc., but it is so much more. Wellness is a holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit. Although it always includes striving for health, it’s more about living life fully, and is “a lifestyle and a personalized approach to living life in a way that… allows you to become the best kind of person that your potentials, circumstances, and fate will allow”. Wellness necessitates good self-stewardship, for ourselves and for those we care about and who care about us. For those in the helping professions, such as ourselves in veterinary medicine, wellness is a professional as well as personal responsibility.
- A photomontage demostrating an overall conclusion of the site forces that were investigated through a dialectic methodology
the design proposal module to floor section 1:200
master plan 1:1000
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Adopting alternative circulation routes inresponse to challenging physical movement
Perspective visualisation outlining the full scheme
Interior visualisation of the urban farm
Interior visualisation of the gym
composite floor to stem wall foundation connection
1:10
CONCRETE TOP + PROTECTIVE FINISH
short section of the gym
SIL PLATE
ELECTRO WELDED MESH + PLASTIC FILM
1:200
ANCHOR BOLT
STEEL CONNECTORS REINFORCED CONCRETE STEM WALL
100mm x 200mm GLULAM TIMBER BEAMS
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VERTICAL REBAR
COMPACT FILL SOIL
6 REBAR CONTINIOUS
5 REINFORCED CONCRETE FOOTING
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1. COMMUNAL JUICE BAR / WARM UP ZONE 2. MALE CHANGING ROOMS 3. FEMALE CHANGING ROOMS 4. CARDIO ROOM 5. SPIN BIKING ROOM 6. PRIVATE WC 7. RESISTANT MACHINES ROOM 8. WEIGHT LIFTING ZONE 9.OPEN STUDIO
timber/ concrete tilt up compostie wall
1:10
4
REDBRICK CLADDING + WEATHER RESISTANT MEMBRANE
8 9
COMPOSITE CONNECTIONS
2 1 GRID REINFORCED CONCRETE
3
PRESSING STRAND
RIGID INSUALTION 120mm
WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE AND PRIMER
ground floor plan of the gym 1:500
meeting chamber sectional conclusion 1:100
CORE LIFT (surround by the pavillion) INDUCTION PODS
TRANSVERSING BRIDGES MEETING CHAMBERS
MEZZANINE STAIRS
NOTION
passage
THESIS
inhibit
ANTITHESIS
release
SYNTHESIS
solitude
RECEPTION LOBBY
NOTION
embarking
THESIS
initiating
ANTITHESIS
relinquish
SYNTHESIS
utilize