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fight club
academic
course
location
type
date
team
unm school of architecture & planning
studio, year two
denver, colorado
residential
fall 2014
individual
The site is located within the proximity of the Pepsi Center (an arena for sports) in Denver, Colorado. The approach on the project examined the massive amounts of people that would wait in line to enter the arena. By examining their movements, this project creates a diversion to the groups of people there and attracts them towards the site.
By creating danger based on the three rules of flocking (separation, cohesion, and alignment) the collective human instinct would guide them towards the site. The program is a fight club that engages in violent behavior, which in this case, attracts the bystanders near the site.
Flocking behavior is a natural instinct exhibited by a group of birds. When birds sense danger they will react and alter their behavior. The project explores the same concept, but through humans. The premise of the project is based upon the collective behavior of humans. The architecture questions what it is like to experience a violent space and explores how we interact within it. I researched human flocking patterns and used that data set to generate the form of the building.
