LISTING + RANKING

CLIMATE

ISSUES

1. Geothermal Potential

1. Hotel as Non-Place

2. Seasonal Changes

3. Solar Orientation

2. Climate Zoning

3. Demographic Decline

PROGRAM

STRATEGY

1. Civic Core

1. (Hot Spring)

2. Hotel Ring

2. Thermally Active Structure

3. Water Plugs

3. Two Facades

URBAN

Underground

Adjacency

Geothermal

CLIMATE
Solar Radiation

Summer

Winter

Wind

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20

40

10

20

40

bath sequence

civic core

CIRCULATION
hotel circulation

guest rooms (north)

back of house

PROGRAM

public spaces

guest rooms (south)

hotel structure

STRUCTURE / GEOTHERMAL

civic structure

CASCADE final

CORRUGATED intimate

OPEN AIR collective

LABYRINTHE segregated

NORTH baths

SOUTH balconies

And what is the privacy for? Shelter is not the only answer - a roof would suffice and four walls would be excessive. Yet man has added not
one, nor two, not even three, but four walls to enclose his surroundings, affording himself and his ilk privacy from the world outside. The
very notion of a personal space suggests that such activities within cannot be performed outside, in the realm of the public eye. Whether
by dint of custom or their own nature, these activities require seclusion if not hiding. The act of dwelling is intrinsically tied to the act of
making life: We as a species exist to perpetuate more of our kind. But the act has, since the original sin, been shunned from the public
realm, the outside, the world beyond the home, and resigned to the innermost spaces of ones abode, the centerpiece of dwelling-space.
And this - the making of life in a city in a nation that is suffering from a drastic shortage of births - lies in the core of the building.