RE-CREATE
Core I - Spirituality & Education
YSOA | Brennan Buck | PLAN UN-PLANED | Fall 2020
The project centers on defying traditional education and spiritual programs. Through exploring the relationships between the two seemingly opposing programs, this project offers an alternative definition of educational and spiritual programs. Offering a proposal around “Re-Creation” as an umbrella to cap both education - or learning and learning through doing - and spiritual programs - learning through self-meditation.
The final Re-Creational center serves as a cultural center to revive traditional Roman bathing techniques.
Site plan
Visual, aural & physical interactions with water
This proposal is a learning/recreational center for Traditional Roman Bathing. Introducing the idea of recreation, as an umbrella to cap learning and spiritual programs, while including physical recreation (learning through doing) in order to complete the experience. Moreover, the starting pattern for this project is the mosaics pattern, found in Islamic/Arabic architecture; this initial pattern undergoes a process of understanding, analysis, and decentralization to form the plan.
Mosaic pattern & transformation study diagrammatic series
Above (left) and below grade plans (right)
Section AA (left) and section BB (right)
Plan perspective cutting above (south) and below ground (north)
Unfolded section cutting through all three types of learning spaces (visual, aural, physical)
Illustration representing mental learning space
Illustration representing physical learning space
“All Animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” - Animal Farm, Chapter 10 (P 3-4)
Model pictures of both physical learning space (left) and aural meditation space (right)
Illustration representing central aural learning space
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