UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO II
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
ARCH 322 - WINTER 2024ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
COORDINATOR
Yojairo Lomeli
PROFESSORS
Mick Kennedy, Yojairo Lomeli, Athar Mufreh, Charlie O’Geen, Salam Rida, Neal Robinson, Jono Sturt, Laura WalkerFieldhouse - A Cultural and Sports Center
Originally, a side building next to an outdoor sports field, that could house equipment, or changing rooms, a field house has become a building for indoor sports, in a sense growing to house the field.
Increasingly access to sport facilities is privatized limiting access to wellness and fitness, space for play, and sport within the city. While any surface can become a site of play – in many cities, such fields and courts for ball sports are booked months in advance, running a multi-season schedule and use is allowed only for sanctioned, and paid activities.
The shift to housing fields, is also climatically related. Ball sports can now be played year round in cold climates, as well as climates that are rapidly heating up. These buildings typically expend energy to condition the temperature of the large spaces within and are generally poorly equipped to sustain those temperatures.
Spaces such as these are flexible in their capacities to mark the boundaries of multiple sports, but also to serve as spaces of assembly, voting centers and shelters in time of emergency. They can be thought of as general purpose buildings that can "field" a wide range of programming, staging a contradiction between the highly specific and choreographed performances they intend to house, and the sometimes other less ruled programs they also service.
A Fieldhouse is a Cultural and Sports Center that finds its footing in the space of sports industrial complex and climate through the realization of a building that can house simple spaces for the practice of a sport.