THE PLACE OF SHARED EXPERINCE

The Live Well Collective explores changing urban conditions, addressing the ever growing lack of shared experiences. In the fast paced media driven environment that we find ourselves in today; Live Well offers a day to day experience that can be shared across all ages and states of being.

It proposes an architectural response that goes against the traditional ceremonial, symmetrical, and distinct definition of ritual. 

In a tea ceremony the entire mental and physical path is prescribed, from walking through the gardens to moving through the room, each step is carefully designed. Contemporary approaches to spaces of shared experiences such as wellness designs, and community centers often fall short by isolating episodes of ritual exposure that neglect the sensory experience of the overall space. As a result, spaces to serve the public become segregated temporary and transactional. The rituals of everyday life which are used to sustain our mental, physical, and social well being are displaced.

Stepping away from the hyper prescribed experience of Tea houses, the live well collective takes on the sense of tea and its sharing using the ritual as an infrastructure for the ordinary. Reframing it as a non-hierarchical third space that integrates movement, rest, sociality and reflection. This approach reframes architecture as a tool for the user, holding small but significant moments of care, chatting with a friend after a pickleball game, casually stretching in the sun, sharing food and drink under canvas shades overhearing conversations   at a lounge table and working alongside others.