Palace of Comfort

The Palace of Comfort is a place for people to come relieve their stress after a long work week. It looks to understand how comfort food can become architectural. Each major program suits different ideals of comfort. The amphitheater has spaces where live music can be enjoyed in a crowd, but it also creates spaces where live music can be enjoyed in a more secluded environment. The cafe provides various seating options to accomodate the fact that some people find more comfort in eating alone whereas others enjoy eating amongst friends. The project acknowledges that comfort is a spectrum, but that there are also certain aspects of comfort which are agreed upon by many people. There are even pools at different depths as some people would rather dip their feet in whereas others would rather be fully submerged. The hotel also has three different floors where the lowest floor is the most social and the top floor is the most secluded.

The Palace of Comfort looks at how comfort food can become comfortable archiecturally. We took a poll amongst our peers to determine which foods they felt were most comforting. Once they were decided on, we began to diagram them to try to understand what makes each one so comforting. The foods then took on different programs while still exemplifying their comforting properties. Mac and cheese became a seating area, and apple pie became a cafe. A samosa was turned into a library, a cinnamon roll converted into an amphitheater, and lasagna became the hotel.

Completed by HG

Completed by HG

The section highlights the library, hotel, and cafe programs.

Completed by HG