Aqua Centre Tomsk

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Elastic meshwork of parameters

The project was developed as a parametric design strategy that overcomes the unilateral and inflexible scope of a traditional architectural proposal. This approach enables the incorporation of new variables and changes in the generative process and afterwards, whilst retaining an overall conceptual coherence.

Index of flows and activities

Like in natural formations the morphology is shaped, in-formed and differentiated by processes. Thus movement becomes both witness and active stimulator of further activity.

The result is a spongy tissue with a series of outside pockets that introduce the reality of the Sibirian climate as snow-filled 'exponents' within the tropical reality of the interior. It is topographically organized with water chutes carved into the undulating ground rather than floating in the air. Hence the spaces are organized and experienced as landscape and invite exploration and discovery.