ADAPTIVE REUSE: NATURE FRAME ARENA
ARCH 302B | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III | SPRING 2024
This semester’s objective was to design a community basketball facility located in the City of Pasadena in Los Angeles. The site contains a series of big box retailer but our specific project was an adaptive reuse of the existing Bed, Bath & Beyond store. The building is approximately 40,000 SF with exposed facades on the East, South and West.
EXISTING BUILDING
SITE ANALYSIS
COLLABORATIVE STUDIO SECTION WORK WITH PROFESSOR JOHN V. MUTLOW
CONCEPT STAGE
FORM FINDING DIAGRAMS
EXISTING BUILDING
REMOVED FROM THE WEST SIDE FACING THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD FOR PUBLIC BASKETBALL COURT
GESTURE FOR CIRCULATION FACING THE RETAIL STORES
MAXIMIZING NATURAL LIGHT, ENHANCING VIEWS, SAVING SPACE ON GROUND LEVEL THUS THE BUILDING DOESN’T CENTER AROUND BASKETBALL PROGRAM
INTEGRATING GREEN SPACE CONSIDERING THE EXISTING SITE AND NARROW SHAPE FOR PASSIVE-COOLING
DESIGN
I intentionally kept the roof flat to keep the emphasis on my atrium, grand staircase and the courts on the roof concept. The boxy, rectilinear nature of my project also blends easily with the existing context, respecting the existing building.
ISOMETRIC VIEW
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
HVAC DIAGRAM
EGRESS / CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
EAST FACING LONGITUDINAL SECTION
NORTH FACING SHORT SECTION
ADAPTIVE REUSE EXISTING STRUCTURE
The outdoor hallway space creates a blur between interior and exterior space, exposing the raw steel structure of the building. The hallway is covered with perforated vertical shading panels.
BASKETBALL COURT STRUCTURE DIAGRAM
CHUNK DETAIL DRAWINGS
EAST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
