TECHAATHELON SPACE FITNESS CENTER
ACTIVITIES CIRCULATION IN 360° — IN WATER TRAINING, CLIMBING, INVERSION WALKING AND EQUILIBRIUM TRAINING
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
EXPERIENCES SNAPSHOTS
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Work Title
Tetraathlon Fitness Center (新しいトライアスロンフィットネスセンター)
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Work Title(EN)
Tetraathlon Fitness Center
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Please describe the concept of your artwork in 2000 words.
Covid as an uninvited guest, it leads to a wonder, whether a new forms of training can unlock undiscovered potentials in preparation for future crisis. Creating design that benefits the future generation instead of focus on instant reward is an inspiring idea from the book--The Good Ancestor by Jonas Salk. Maintaining health is a radical prescription for long-term thinking. This idea leads to the creation of a fitness programme, focus on user age between 15-45, which is the period of time that people have been intensively studying and working to reward the country.
The leisure center at Camden council building becomes the site for further study. It has a basement pool and standard gym. Common exercises that were engaged in normal gym facilities will sometimes damage our rotator muscle due to gravity attraction. It multiplies and concentrates body weight onto one spot, this can worsen chronic diseases such as shoulder inflammation and pain.
Through process of research and inspiration that had been taken from documentaries of NASA and EAS, new circuit of training has been informed, introducing a new zero gravity experience based on therapy science. The circuit had been named as the Tetraathlon, includes 4 exercises:
1. In water Training. Water is 12 times as dense as air, acting as an invisible hand holding the body, reducing damages to joints and tendons.
2. Rock Climbing, similar to a gecko, spreads body weight onto four limbs, relieving our spinal and waist. It also improves our flexibility and coordination.
3. Inversion Walking. By shifting body’s gravity upside down, it will increase blood circulation to activate brain activities, releasing back pain from standard mode of sitting.
4. Cardio & Equilibrium dual training. It strengthens our hearts, increases stamina. Spinning motion improves our spatial awareness and also builds on new muscle memory.
Zero gravity practices have direct benefits improving our proprioception, which is sometimes called the 6th sense working with our interoception, the ability to sense space, find balance in a new environment and perform simultaneous action precisely. Methodologies of spatial design are working in cooperation with proprioception. Please see the film of Tetraathlon Fitness Center in below for an comprehensive project overview. -
Please describe the concept of your artwork in 2000 words. (EN)
Covid as an uninvited guest, it leads to a wonder, whether a new forms of training can unlock undiscovered potentials in preparation for future crisis. Creating design that benefits the future generation instead of focus on instant reward is an inspiring idea from the book--The Good Ancestor by Jonas Salk. Maintaining health is a radical prescription for long-term thinking. This idea leads to the creation of a fitness programme, focus on user age between 15-45, which is the period of time that people have been intensively studying and working to reward the country.
The leisure center at Camden council building becomes the site for further study. It has a basement pool and standard gym. Common exercises that were engaged in normal gym facilities will sometimes damage our rotator muscle due to gravity attraction. It multiplies and concentrates body weight onto one spot, this can worsen chronic diseases such as shoulder inflammation and pain.
Through process of research and inspiration that had been taken from documentaries of NASA and EAS, new circuit of training has been informed, introducing a new zero gravity experience based on therapy science. The circuit had been named as the Tetraathlon, includes 4 exercises:
1. In water Training. Water is 12 times as dense as air, acting as an invisible hand holding the body, reducing damages to joints and tendons.
2. Rock Climbing, similar to a gecko, spreads body weight onto four limbs, relieving our spinal and waist. It also improves our flexibility and coordination.
3. Inversion Walking. By shifting body’s gravity upside down, it will increase blood circulation to activate brain activities, releasing back pain from standard mode of sitting.
4. Cardio & Equilibrium dual training. It strengthens our hearts, increases stamina. Spinning motion improves our spatial awareness and also builds on new muscle memory.
Zero gravity practices have direct benefits improving our proprioception, which is sometimes called the 6th sense working with our interoception, the ability to sense space, find balance in a new environment and perform simultaneous action precisely. Methodologies of spatial design are working in cooperation with proprioception. Please see the film of Tetraathlon Fitness Center in below for an comprehensive project overview. -
Work Specification
digital diagrams, drawing, model (24in x 24 x 16) and film for explanation
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Work Specification(EN)
digital diagrams, drawing, model (24in x 24 x 16) and film for explanation
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Media CoverageURL
https://youtu.be/xebGB7EPty8
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Video URL
https://youtu.be/xebGB7EPty8
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Your OfficialURL (Website, Instagram, Facebook)
https://2021.rca.ac.uk/students/xinchen-wu
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Please describe how your work relates to the theme of the special prize.
"Panasonic sympathizes with YouFab 2021's theme “Democratic Experiment(s),” which is a democratic experimental activity that faces not only the tie among humans but with the whole universe including the global environment”. My spacial design provides a new experiential experience of fitness inspired by Space technology. Covid as an uninvited guest, it leads to a wonder, whether a new forms of training can unlock undiscovered potentials in preparation for future crisis. My project turns an traditional empty office building to a public fitness space with creative appliances allowing people to strengthen their bodies in a fun and future way.
Creating design that benefits the future generation instead of focus on instant reward is an inspiring idea from the book--The Good Ancestor by Jonas Salk. Maintaining health is a radical prescription for long-term thinking. This idea leads to the creation of a fitness programme, focus on user age between 15-45, which is the period of time that people have been intensively studying and working to reward the country.
The leisure center at Camden council building becomes the site for further study. It has a basement pool and standard gym. Common exercises that were engaged in normal gym facilities will sometimes damage our rotator muscle due to gravity attraction. It multiplies and concentrates body weight onto one spot, this can worsen chronic diseases such as shoulder inflammation and pain.
Through process of research and inspiration that had been taken from documentaries of NASA and EAS, new circuit of training has been informed, introducing a new zero gravity experience based on therapy science. The circuit had been named as the Tetraathlon, includes 4 exercises:
1. In water Training. Water is 12 times as dense as air, acting as an invisible hand holding the body, reducing damages to joints and tendons.
2. Rock Climbing, similar to a gecko, spreads body weight onto four limbs, relieving our spinal and waist. It also improves our flexibility and coordination.
3. Inversion Walking. By shifting body’s gravity upside down, it will increase blood circulation to activate brain activities, releasing back pain from standard mode of sitting.
4. Cardio & Equilibrium dual training. It strengthens our hearts, increases stamina. Spinning motion improves our spatial awareness and also builds on new muscle memory.
Zero gravity practices have direct benefits improving our proprioception, which is sometimes called the 6th sense working with our interoception, the ability to sense space, find balance in a new environment and perform simultaneous action precisely. Methodologies of spatial design are working in cooperation with proprioception.