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Club Life

2020_10wks
An Urban Compound Day-to-Night Club
Montrose_Houston, TX
Mark Wamble’s 502 studio, Club Life, investigated the compound typology. This project produced a compound utilizing the modernist bar, the typical suburban massing. The bar is multiplied and rotated then aggregated across the site, yielding a border that distinguishes inside and outside. The massing is irregular, unkempt by any obvious rationale and at the mercy of the setbacks and program requirements. Inside, the resulting irregular fissures between bars are superimposed by a series of distorted ring shapes, smooth voids. In their cutting the rings conjoin once discrete bars into clear program spaces: the strength forum, pool, and training deck. The inside spaces not cut by the rings are left offering a constricted pause between each void. The outside line is left defined by the bar buildings; however, the boundary is softened by their irregular alignment. The interior spaces are left as the result of two competing geometries, programs are anchored by the rational bar and relieved by the compelling void.
The compound was studied in a formal exercise with four schemes of 3, 9, 18 and 36 parts. The compound is required to establish a clear inside and outside edge, using missions, monasteries and ranches as precedents. This scheme used two opposing geometries to locate the inside and outside conditions: the rigid bar shape, and smooth curvilinear void shape.
The diagrammatic style of these drawings was established to read within the confines of Zoom Critique. Section Perspective rendering the contrast of spaces and the poche space that delineates them.

Garage Level Void Level Level 0 Level 1

Section through the Strength Forum, Training Deck and architectural facades which cut the masonry bars. Each bar is delinated through its coursework enabling the reading of individual bars in combination. Looking into the pool space. Exterior from Kirby Drive. Entrance Hall.