K A Y L E N C H O I
ROBOTICS UNIVERSITY-WELLNESS CENTER
NOV 2021: STUDIO (ARC 307)
Under the instruction of Professor Britt Eversole
A campus is a place where students research and learn with faculty, and society. NASA is an innovative center which designs and creates technologies to advance its missions in aeronautics and space explorations. It is a place for interactions that come from researching, testing, debating, and investigating between scientists, robotics, machines, and outer space. Our proposal aims to allow people and robots to live, work, play, think, and communicate collaboratively which results in an innovative campus. Within this new and experimental community, we wonder how robotics can intensify or disconnect interactions between people. Do these interactions help both NASA and university students research towards space?
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This Wellness Center that I have designed is a part of a larger group project where we designed a robotics campus. This campus is a place of experimentation and new technologies. The Wellness Center is not only for humans on campus, but for robots and technology as well. The idea of health extends to human and non human scales. Robots will interact and assist with wellness through technology, as well as receiving their own types of physical and emotional therapy. Such programs include napping-charging pods, AI art rooms, obstacle courses, green house spaces, and fitness areas. Robots begin to rest, play, and interact with the campus and its students.
The wellness center is made up of a repetition of a hexagonal shape with a central void that contains circulation. Humans and robots of the campus will enter from the escalators going through an overhanging glass at the bottom floor.
This interior perspective can be interpreted as a drone or robot's point of view. It overlooks the central void and the vertical circulation that goes carves through the project. The vertical circulation connects to each floor through a system of ramps.
