THE CHOICE
The experience of swimming begins well before entering the water. It starts with a choice: choosing to go to the pool, choosing a moment, choosing an experience suited to one's state, desires, and needs. This power to choose transforms access to swimming into a personalized, engaged, and inclusive experience.
Our proposal draws on the capabilities approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum: it is essential to create conditions that enable individuals to express their full potential, to guarantee the real freedom to lead a chosen life.
Our starting point is the observation that a single space cannot simultaneously accommodate the full plurality of desires. The idea is to stretch out time and give everyone back their place in a chosen temporality: a day, a week, a month, a year...
We propose a mutable architecture in which the pool becomes a living environment, capable of reconfiguring itself over defined timeframes to welcome diverse bodies, states, and rhythms of life.
Each sequence offers a specific atmosphere, identifiable in advance through several parameters: sensory ambiances, signage, spatial morphology, human presence, social interactions, technologies, etc. The environment is structured and modulated through a clear and accessible schedule, an agenda of sensory possibilities.
This approach redefines accessibility: no longer a set of technical solutions applied after the fact, but a fundamental design condition, capable of anticipating and embracing difference.
This project is based on a simple principle: the power to choose is a form of emancipation that expands the possibilities available to each individual.
(From competitor's text)
The proposal offers a human and engaging narrative through the use of small characters. However, it focuses on programming rather than user experience. The jury appreciated the clear and polished presentation.
(From jury report)
5 scanned / 5 viewable
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