Summary

While having a lack of equipment, as the interviewed gym teachers all agree, the gym also has too much equipment that is not used during class. It only stands there because there is nowhere to store it; it gets in the way of the students. Items such as basketball hoop stands and soccer goals can be brought into a storage room. Notice the condition of the equipment—the balls are cheap, broken, deflated, ripped, and dirty.

The instructors would like to have a table that is isolated or guarded somehow from the rest of the gym, and lament the gym’s size.

Athletic business, an architecture firm, designed Auburn track (shown in the next slide) that is wider than the current school track and provided a cage fence railing that wouldn’t let an average gym projectile through. Extending this type of railing up for better blocking wouldn’t be a problem.

Students agree that is a nuisance to change on the 3rd floor of the building and then go down to the first floor gym. It cuts class time and is is crowded in the largest of the two school locker rooms. Adding a third pair (male/female) would cut time from getting to the gym and back and would be more secure in terms of locker theft.

Storage can be addressed by adding shelving fixtures in a room to be made in the gym. A room with tall, wide pocket doors could be made to hold portable/collapsible bleachers.

The overhang can legally expand the current gym area by up to 58%. The materials to use for the additional overhang of the gym over the existing parking lot would be translucent but not transparent. Light passes through, but shapes are not clearly visible. Cast acrylic is ten times stronger than glass and half the weight. The texture can be made to match that of the rest of the gym’s floors by adding a coat of wood polish, which wouldn't even be necessary because of the roughness coefficient of properly sanded cast acrylic.