INTROVERTED PLEASURE SPACE: A WOMAN'S SLEEPING SPA.
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Introvert: someone who is energized by being alone and whose energy is drained
by being around other people.
EXTROVERTED PLEASURE SPACE: Dynamism, exuberance, open spaces, attention-seeking, prominent outward expression.
INTROVERTED PLEASURE SPACE: Passiveness, stillness, solitude, private, hidden space, restricted access, inward expression. E.g courtyard
The re-brief fictionally imagined Zaha's submission for the peak as an extroverted, pleasure-inducing manifesto for a new language of architecture, reflecting the exuberant program and the pleasure-seeking urges of contemporary man. The Peak literally is a climax, an explosion of form, an extroverted expression of pleasure.
My project will subvert this view on pleasure. I will take the peak and turn it in on itself. Introverted pleasure will be induced through different levels of lighting, privacy, solitude, stillness and hidden, pocket space. The women's spa will be an exclusive place of ultimate relaxation, solitude and escapism.
Each layer of the plan signifies another step towards the ultimate state of passive pleasure- sleep.
The outer layer is the most open most public space, this is where people go to swim laps and exercise. Courtyards within courtyards create a layered plan, alternating between wet and dry space, creating increasing levels of privacy and solitude as one moves in towards the heart of the building. The spaces become increasingly jagged creating pockets of space as opposed to open space, increasing the level of enclosure, privacy and solitude. Ultimately each person finds their own pocket of space to sleep in, at the heart if the spa, the ultimate introverted pleasure state of relaxation and solitude.
Really nice, I like the text and the plan is a good start. I like that you describe the quality of the space and you try to formally think which devices you need.
when you talk about "Introverted pleasure will be induced through different levels of lighting, privacy, solitude, stillness and hidden, pocket space..." and I look at the plan, I can start imagining the transition between the juxtaposition of the external border with the climax of the spaces inside. Also this sentence is good "The outer layer is the most open most public space, this is where people go to swim laps and exercise. Courtyards within courtyards create a layered plan", think more how formally it can be done. For now, you don't need to make your plan always with the textures, do a few even plans where you use CAD lines to visualize all your ideas; and then when you fell then a plan is important because it reached for you an important stage, then yes make it perfect with the textures, and then go back to extenuating CAD... really nice Zoe, keept it up