This was a student project by Austin Weller for Michael Denison's ARCH 342 course, Autumn 2007. The design for Club2 derived from the precedent study of rock n' roll band The Strokes. Along with most all great bands, The Strokes are headed by a visceral, boastful, and outspoken lead singer. This concept of the individual, or singer, outweighing the group, or band, was to be the catalyst of design for the project. Starting with a typical box for the building's shape- a rock n' roll stage arises that begins to manipulate the box, giving a canted effect. The stage programmatically becomes a locker room, which is the first stop for most all activities within a recreation center. From here, inhabitants take a variety of individual catwalks to their desired programmatic destinations. Each programmatic piece of the building is signified by a box, which begins to erupt at a certain caliber through the outer shell of the building. The result are volumes of boxes left inside made up of group or band spaces and volumes outside the box made up of individual or singer spaces. Team sports for example are left inside the enclosure of the building and activities such as getting a massage take place outside the shell of the initial box. An ambiguous, elastic skin is then applied to accent this disruption, a mystique analogous to the great lead singers of today's blossoming rock n' roll scene. - Austin Weller This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. The effort to preserve and digitize drawings in the Student Archives was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation.
