Gym in Motion

Student at: Birzeit University
Course: Design 5

Program: Infill Gym building
Location: Ramallah
Year: 2012

The project is a proposal for an infill Gym building in the city center of Ramallah. The main concept of design is circulation as part of exercising, a cable structure system for holding the stairs was chosen so as to provide privacy for the interior spaces, it provides visual illusion where people can only be seen as silhouettes. This is in addition to the interesting shades and shadows the cables drop on the interior halls.

The building comes in two main masses, a wooden mass for services and a transparent mass in the form of a slim tower for the sports facilities, the intersection between the two masses is a space utilized for health facilities.

Transparent glass was chosen for the tower to reduce its bulkiness, and allow people walking in the streets to see and feel the dynamics and vitality of the interior spaces of the Gym.