Graduate School Work l University of California, Berkeley
# 04 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT (Sub)urban Swim : Balboa Park Pool
STUDIO / (Sub)urban swim_San Francisco Projects v.7 Fall, 2011 STATE / Individual work PROGRAM / Public swimming pool LOCATION / Balboa Park, San Francisco INSTRUCTOR / Roddy Creedon The project was a proposal for a new swimming facility. The size and program is similar to the existing facility [Âą14,000 sf ]. The conversation in the studio was center around the following issues and investigations: the role of municipal projects in manifesting larger civic ideals; the qualities of a contemporary language of municipal infrastructure; the nature of long-span building design; the conditions of water and ground as formal instigators; the relationship of the project to the surrounding landscape.
A space inbetween space having different light density. Pool as a light box bring continuity of outdoor space. The Goal of this project is to make people experience being outside using contrast of light and dark.
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