Site Geometry and Massing

From left to right:
1) Floating mass condition on site (bath house) as well as the back which fills in the circulation public space adjusts to the geometries of the site
2) Three types of adjustment: gravitational point, boundary mimicry, mediation between trajectories
3) The existing mass stays.

The diagrams on the right of the board represent a parallel thought that will be developed further. It occurred to me that the program of the pool is analogous to the boundary and flows that I discovered in the site. The competition pool has a primary function as a fair playing field, meaning that the turbulence and resistance is equal in all lanes so that the resistance on swimmer A = R on swimmer B. In order to create this, several boundaries and buffers are created (in order of scale): lane lines, buffer lanes (2), perimeter gutter, perimeter pool wall, drains, filters. The pool program is also interesting because while the pool is a neutral and permeable zone the envelope of the pool (walls/roof) must be sealed to resist air/water so as to minimize evaporation.