ENTRANT │ Entrant: Dimitrios Zoulis | Team Members: Samuel Scardefield

PROJECT TYPE │ Community College / Design Project – Studio

SCHOOL │ Anne Arundel Community College

FACULTY SPONSOR │ Michael Ryan, Professor / Department of Architecture and Interior Design

PROJECT COMPLETION DATE │ 5/12/2015

Summary Description of Project

Each team has been commissioned to design a recreational center rest stop to be used by the National Park Service for a location you select. The hostel will be for highlighting outdoor recreational activities within the park. There are no services (water, power and sewer) as this will be located in a remote location. This structure will have to depend on sustainable/green design principles to make it function. As it will be located in a rich and beautiful landscape, the park system is also very concerned on the impact of the built environment.

Student's Statement

The sculpting action of the glacier is the natural force that profoundly influences the landscape in Glacier National Park. Through the abrasive nature, glaciers create vast negative spaces carving valleys into mountains. Hidden Lake Trail Hostel acts as a glacier chiseling away at the bedrock, creating an artificial glacial path which beckons to be followed in a linear fashion.

The program for Hidden Lake Trail Hostel required considerable floor area that dictated a linear building. The idea balanced with organic natural shapes became manifested in the final form of the trail hostel that has an absolute rectilinear wall form.

Integrated in the design are key sustainable/green design principles. Due to the location of the site a unique micro-climate is produced by the eastern moving winds known as the Chinook winds. This wind is due to weather traveling eastward and over the mountains of Glacier National Park. This causes a warm wind to ride down the eastern mountain sides of the national park creating a beautiful landscape of wildflowers. We focused on harnessing this winds to power the hostel with blade-less wind turbines set on the site around the hostel. We also planned a water cistern to collect rain water.

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