Jesse Owens North

Gym on Ohio State Campus

Instructor Sandhya Kochar

Fall 2021

This project explores what future gym culture could be like and how it can begin to influence the architecture of a gym. I applied those ideas to design a new gym for the Ohio State University campus. I decided to design a gym which would act like a supplement to the university. I did this by designing pods which can be used as independent exercise spaces but also for things like eating, sleeping, meditating, and working on homework. The building is also designed around a large, central pool room. There are terraces with workout equipment as well as courts for various sports looking out over the pool to create a very social space juxtaposing the more independent program of the pods. Some of the pods also become saunas and pools of various temperatures to create the experience of Turkish baths moving from the locker rooms to the pool.

Flat Out

The goal of this project was to design a pavilion which would sit on the Vitra Campus and house a single chair from the Vitra Collection. It developed from flattening a container and refolding and reconfiguring the flattened surface into a three-dimensional pavilion. The flattened box was also projected onto the surface of the pavilion to create a pattern which informed apertures. I utilized a Target box covered in packing tape which I translated into the stripes that appear on the pavilion’s surface. Because the tape is both transparent and acting as a binding agent, the stripes do the same for the pavilion. There are stripes cut out to allow light into the pavilion as well as to interlock pieces of the pavilion to create a unified form.

The image is of the original Target box previous to it being flattened and refolded into the final pavilion.

The image is of the unrolled Target box which was projected onto the surface of the pavilion as a pattern which influenced apertures.

The image shows the model developed from the original Target box after it had been flattened and reworked.