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<\/a>The Syracuse University \u201cDome\u201d athletic arena, which was proposed after the August 1978 decision to no longer build a Skytop complex, but instead construct a new stadium on the site of the campus\u2019 then current Archbold stadium.<\/p><\/div>\n
Over the course of the semester I have been researching air conditions through the lens of a specific case study, the Carrier Dome. \u00a0 As a beacon and\/or icon of the Syracuse University campus, the Carrier Dome also happens to play a divergent role as part of a shift to interior domed sports complexes; specifically relating to the domed stadiums utilizing the newly advancing technology of fabric, air supported roofs.\u00a0 My goal is to look through the lens of this specific building to explore the notion of what \u201cair conditioning\/conditions\u201d is not only amidst the technicality of producing an air supported\u00a0 roof, but also through the more socially charged notion of what I would consider cultural air conditions.<\/p>\n
For the Technical basis of my research I have been focusing my investigation, using the skills I possess as an architectural student, through the\u00a0means of examining working drawings.\u00a0 I have also been looking through newspaper clippings from the period when the dome was created, statements produced by the university, and articles explaining how the carrier dome fits into a larger material shift in stadiums.<\/p>\n
Socially and culturally I have based my exploration on scholarly texts discussing the psychology of sports and spectatorship.\u00a0 Using this research as a basis from which to proceed, I plan on using first-hand witness accounts and my own personal social and cultural experiences within the Carrier Dome, being a Syracuse University athlete, to demonstrate the points regarding the specific atmosphere that is created.<\/p>\n
The series of documents I have curated directly follow the lineage of my research, consequently the curatorial entries run chronologically.\u00a0 Starting from the beginning with the proposed Dome demonstrating the air supported roof to the final proposal and its imagined\u00a0means of examining working drawings.\u00a0 I have also been looking through newspaper clippings from the period when the dome was created, statements produced by the university, and articles explaining how the carrier dome fits into a larger material shift in stadiums.<\/p>\n
Socially and culturally I have based my exploration on scholarly texts discussing the psychology of sports and spectatorship.\u00a0 Using this research as a basis from which to proceed, I plan on using first-hand witness accounts and my own personal social and cultural experiences within the Carrier Dome, being a Syracuse University athlete, to demonstrate the points regarding the specific atmosphere that is created.<\/p>\n
The series of documents I have curated directly follow the lineage of my research, consequently the curatorial entries run chronologically.\u00a0 Starting from the beginning with the proposed Dome demonstrating the air supported roof to the final proposal and its imagined\u00a0interior environment.\u00a0 The lineage then shifts from proposal or suggestion to the construction phase.\u00a0 The formality and functionality of the dome and how it actually works is illustrated through multiple mediums, such as photographs, working drawings and diagrams.\u00a0 This arrangement was chosen as the best method to use in order to visually explain the complexity of the Carrier Dome\u2019s construction.<\/p>\n
The curatorial entries then shift towards the experiential and cultural aspect of the research through a photograph comparison between the newly finished barren stadium verses the stadium at full capacity for the first football game.\u00a0 This layout is used to illustrate the difference between the technicality of the physical construction and the constructed \u201cspace\u201d created by spectatorship.\u00a0 These \u201cspaces\u201d and experiences are what I would define as the \u201ccultural air conditions”.\u00a0 My final curatorial entry piece is to illustrate the experience the technical air conditions support, thereby supplying an architectural basis for the \u201creal\u201d space to be created, the \u201cCULTURAL SPACE.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/a>This interior rendering, of the envisioned environment of the proposed on campus dome, shows the \u201cspace\u201d of performance contrasted against the \u201cspace\u201d of spectatorship.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The Ring Beam is a larger u-shaped beam that runs along the top of the box columns. It is the location where the lower concrete structure is connected to the Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This diagram explains the air supply and return system through a typical cross-section of the Carrier Dome.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This sectional elevation drawing represents one of the final images, pre-actual existence, which imagines the interior and exteriority of the proposed dome and visualizes how the relationship between the other areas.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This plan and elevation describe a typical HVAC room for housing the large fans that supply the air to inflate the domed roof.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Thirty-six sixty-foot hollow box columns are the first items installed following the foundation walls. They will not only be the major supports for the dome, but they are also play a major part in the air supply system.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>These are the large six-foot wide fans, shown in the typical HV room, that individually have the capacity to generate 95,000 cubic feet of air movement per minute in the plenum of the double layer fabric room.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This picture displays the spectacle that is created when the dome is transformed by the act of spectatorship.<\/p><\/div>\n