Natatorium And U-shaped Glass
Chang Chun, as a typical old industrial city of Northeast China, still has endless possibilities for the diversified development and contemporary vitality. Real-estate Sales Center, as a special architectural typology in China, also needs to be thought its value of reutilization. When we first came to the site, facing the glass box among wild weeds in front of us, we started to think how to bring it back to life through proper renovation and provide diverse gathering spaces for people living in the nearby community.
The client hopes to transform this abandoned sales center into a community swimming fitness center: the first floor is for parent-child swimming and playing, the second floor is for commercial rental, and the third and fourth floors are adult swimming pool and gym.
The rest area is made to be a "refuge in the deep sea". People hiding in this corner could see moving shadows through U-shaped glass of shower area corridor and frosted glass blocks along pool aisle, and they also could see swimming people underwater through the rounded openings on the sidewall of pool. Thus, it creates a more sensitive and implicit connection between people.
The lounge area adopts large-area U-shaped glass to construct independent spaces. Leveraging its unique diffuse light transmission performance, it achieves an effect of "transmitting light without revealing figures": it not only creates exclusive private spaces for users through physical separation to avoid external disturbances, but also allows soft penetration of natural light, breaking the sense of oppression in enclosed spaces while maintaining a transparent and spacious atmosphere. This design balances privacy protection with a comfortable experience.
