FieldHouse for Harvard

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FieldHouse for Harvard

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Undergraduate residential house with athletic center under walkable hill-roof. The FieldHouse creates an environment where living and learning are intertwined. Living and learning are both fundamentally about expanding one's worldview.By organizing residential towers into clusters around three functional plazas, there is a nesting of social space, from site to complex, outdoor plaza to towers, and then inside the vertical circulation and into the private residential units. Below the walkable hill-roof is the public athletic center, and above it rises the private spaces of residential life. The towers, visually erupting through the surface of the hill-roof have entries both just below and at the surface of the hill-roof. Students and faculty enter their tower from inside the collective environment of the hill, or at their own tower.Tower facade geometry reflects the organization of space inside, composed of units aggregating at a localized scale of unit-to-unit. Obtuse angles in the walls spread open unit interiors but also allows for three conditions: Functionally, users gain ways to organize furniture in the room in relation to windows and built-in elements. Secondly, angles enable users to visualize the space as a combination of volumes collected into niches, or personal corners. Most importantly, obtuse walls orchestrate a continuous displacement of interior views to exterior horizon. When experiencing windows from inside, users looks up or down and when seated find an in-between zone where there is a continuation of their world into the outdoors.At different scales ? unit, aggregation, tower clusters around plazas ? users search for the world beyond, its limits ever changing. An organization of not just spatial experience but the relationship of space to social contact as perceived through this environment. The experience of living is about searching for the world beyond what one can immediately see and know.

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FieldHouse for Harvard

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