WALL PARTY

What does recreation mean to us today? How can we define new relationships between evolving notions of play?

This rec-center redesign attempts to respond to these questions, positing that recreation in modern times has evolved to include the non-physical or even acts of ‘labor.’ As such, this space of recreation manifests as a series of continuous rooms with atypical programmatic adjacencies.

 
Several thick pink walls stretch across the site, mimicking existing lines of structure. Larger gaps between these walls are flexible spaces with varied elevational relationships. These are supported by smaller service spaces that might contain kitchens or workshops. Large portals are cut into these walls as a means to allow for rooms to bleed freely into one another. Partitions that are positioned transverse to the walls are materially porous/transparent and used when necessary to define boundaries for program. A glimmering aluminum bean is located centrally as a means to ground one’s self in plan.

The walls are constructed out of pink 3-score CMU blocks with a staggered running bond to give the wall the appearance of an infinite plane - grout disappears and all that is left is a whimsical pink wall.