c&o Canal Lock 52 Visitor Center (Initium 52)
Facade #1
Framing Curve
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Consctruction
Spring Garden Hostel (redevelopment)
Project Narrative
The project focuses on creating an environment which revives the neighborhood in parallel to creating spaces which both the hostel guest and the Spring Garden community can come together. Locals are unfamiliar to strangers as the community lacks any attraction point. But with the hostel, it will contribute to revitalizing the neighborhood, attracting visitors. With the contrasting experience, encouraging the locals to enjoy the green space, and with hostel visitors co-existing in the same space, the locals may begin to accept the high traffic of strangers.
The new pedestrian street between the hostel and the public space enables a sense of separation from the active world but also as a gateway to a different experience. The brick shell signifies community and the contrasting wooden hostel signifies privacy with the street acting as a bridge between the two contrasting zones.
The public spaces are placed on the ground level with large green space, providing the community a resting and an interactive zone. With the characteristics of the site, the glass wall along the existing wall separates the public space from the active road, creating calm inter-space simultaneously acting as a barrier, restricting entrance from the openings on the front facade, creating a sense of privacy. The hostel guests are rather placed away from the central green space to suggest that the green public area is not limited to the hostel users.
The public gathering space for the hostel users is in the ground level suggesting similar purpose to the community public space but with limited openings to provide a sense of privacy from the non-hostel users.
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Roof Plan / Circulation Density
1st Floor Plan
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3rd Floor Plan
Public vs Private
Room Layout
Structure
2 Bed
4 Bed
Circulation
Courtyard
