Emily Finn

The Soo Health and Wellness Center

Architecture [BS]

This year’s Comprehensive Design project, known as The Soo Health and Sport Hall located in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, is a semester-long project, moving through the different design stages from initial research, to schematic design, and finally to design development. This project responds to the overall site constraints, such as working with the existing site attributes and orientation for daylight exposure. Working on the Historic Maritime Park site, there are several historical buildings that surround the site, with their own architectural language. This project both counteracts the overall rectilinear street fronts of the surrounding buildings with its curvilinear facades, as well as reinforces the rectilinear aspects with the towering photovoltaic canopy. Each aspect of the building design was carefully thought out in order to provide guests the best quality visual and environmental experience possible.