1.2 diagramming the program

* 1,218 resort and hotel spas, 9% of the total.
* 915 medical spas, 7% of the total.
* 484 club spas, 4% of the total.
* 77 mineral springs spas, 0.6% of the total.
* 71 destination spas, 0.5% of the total.

A resort spa is a place where you can enjoy spa treatments while staying overnight. While a destination spa offers an overall immersion in healthy living and an opportunity for personal transformation, resort spas are more about providing a relaxing, pampering experience for people staying at the resort.

Resort spas come in a wide range of sizes and styles, from small privately owned inns like to the lavish, over-the-top resort spas in Hawaii. It's good to do your research before you go. You don't want to find out the "spa" is a hot tub, or one treatment room off the gym.

At a resort spa, you usually pay for your spa treatments a la carte instead of having them as part of the total package. The resort spa may or may not offer classes like yoga, and the selection is usually more limited than at a destination spa. There are a few exceptions. Golden Door Spa at The Boulders and The Spa at Camelback Inn in Scottsdale are two excellent resort spas that offer a hefty schedule of classes, free for anyone getting a treatment at the spa. The restaurants generally offer spa cuisine, but their real forte is the rich food that most people like to order when they're out on the town. For the new must-have amenity at resorts and hotels, so almost everyone says they have a spa. But make sure you know what you're getting into before you book. You don't want to find out that the "spa" is one hot tub treat

* Large resort spas will have a wide range of activities, including golf, swimming, tennis, and sometimes water sports, horseback riding and skiing. Some also have kids' camps.

Assignment:
How do we generate a successful mixture of the program in order to facilitate a unique spatial experience but also efficient circulation between private and public areas?

The strategy is to hybridize an innovative assembly, which is directed to form an infinite continuity of synergetic programmatic densities and infrastructure
In a first step, students will layout their potential program composition as a conceptual diagram, and then continue to design preliminary massing and plan strategies;

You should have a series of 2D diagrams tracing and/or interpreting specific program’s characteristics, elements and clusters. Using digital modeling techniques, illustrate simultaneous sequences of 2D and 3D parties generated by your diagrams. Keep in mind that the point of this exercise is to explore spatial and relational issues. Apply operations of: assembly of information, assembly of parts, combinations, reiterations, variations... Your parties should contain ideas of: orientation and placement and infrastructural relationships.

The spatial parties will be printed in 2 color-pages of size 11x17.
One page will contain the 2D process, the other page the 3D process.
For any physical parti's use mass models/ 3D-pattern models; scale 1/32”~1:500; materials- wood, foamcore, acrylic;

reference program: ARCH 5901-FA09 program SPA Hotel.pdf (on wiki)
links: use the SPA links on this page and explore other sites as well in order to get an idea on the organization of spas.

first review th 10 sep