The Oklahoma City Midtown Wellness Center was a mid-level architecture student project exploring architecture's interactions with the community. The program defined traditional fitness center functions, as well as staff, rehabilitative, and community elements. I additionally included retail elements in the design to further community interaction.
I opted to divide the functions into two separate buildings, using their masses to define both a large central courtyard area for activities, and a community park along the outside of the building. All traditional fitness elements were contained in one structure, while administrative, community, retail, and rehabilitative elements were contained in the other. In the case of the latter, all functions faced to the outside with circulation occurring there. With the fitness center, circulation used traditional interior methodology. Careful attention was paid to circulation to and from the site, through the site, and between elements.
