INTRODUCTION:

The third project, Architecture of Heat, tasks the students to design a single-story 8,000 sqft spa and boathouse. Students will organize their programmatic elements around the various and specific thermal qualities that are required for each of the programs listed below. Taking into account the temperature, source of heat, thermal conductivity, form, and performance, students will design an architecture that uses various forms of heat as design elements. Students will be asked to consider natural ventilation as the primary motivator of form in the boathouse, as it will function during the warmer months. The spa will require the students to develop an architectural agenda as it relates to thermal comfort.

ARCHITECTURE OF HEAT:

Thermal Issues in architecture are an ever-present and under-utilized influence on our experience of buildings. The knowledge of various thermal sequences is often suppressed through the use of mechanical systems and the ubiquity of the 72-degree Fahrenheit space. Your primary task for this project is to think of architecture as a sequence of thermal experiences. You will need to consider both the source of heat and the temperature. Heat delivered or removed through Conduction (physical contact) Convection (moving air) or Radiation (the sun) have various experiential and formal consequences for architecture.

Additionally as Lisa Heschong notes, the human body experiences temperature through difference and so how that difference is manifested in your buildings matters. How does one transition from exterior to interior? Are these transitions abrupt with strange juxtapositions or some gradual as continuous gradient? These considerations are very similar to those that you have already made when considering light in your gallery projects. From the Baths of Caracalla to the work of Peter Zumthor at Vals, it's easy to see how architects have used heat to produce various atmospheric experiences. As with each of the previous projects, the Architecture of Heat is about the form and performance of the building.

HEAT TYPOLOGIES:

Heat can be categorized into several typologies which will help us as we design.

(Convection) (Conduction) (Thermal Radiation) (Evaporative Cooling)

PROGRAM:

Project three tasks the students to design a boathouse and spa with various auxiliary spaces. Each of these spaces requires varying thermal qualities that are the result of its programmatic requirements, relationship to the exterior, and relationship to the sun. Students should use their MEEB textbooks from Arch 301 and 303, case studies, and the resource center to determine various thermal requirements for each program. Considerations such as egress, access, public vs. private space, etc. should also be included in your design. Each of these programs has various thermal, acoustic, and lighting requirements that students should address. While this project is focused on the thermal aspects of architecture, the previous two projects have prepared you to address lighting and acoustic considerations as well as thermal considerations.

Spa Total: 3500 Sqft

Outdoor Bath: 1000 Sqft

Indoor Bath: 100 Sqft

Quiet Bath: 200 Sqft

Hot Bath: 200 Sqft

Showers: 200 Sqft

Loud Bath: 200 Sqft

Sun Bath: 200 Sqft

Sauna: 400 Sqft

Lobby: 300 Sqft

Lockers: 300 Sqft

Boathouse Total: 4500 Sqft

Canoe + Kayak Storage: 2000 Sqft

Staging + Training Area: 700 Sqft

Vender Office: 100 Sqft

Vender Kiosk: 200 Sqft

Changing Rooms: 200 Sqft

Lockers: 100 Sqft

Bathrooms: 200 Sqft

Dock: TBD