Redesign Your School Athletic Pavilion | 2014 National High School Architecture Competition #7
|This gym is located on 29 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. It has two doors used as entrances, one from the third floor locker room, and the other from the South staircases. There are large windows and by the windows are bleachers. Right above the gym is the second floor track field. There is an open space that allows you to peer up or down depending on which floor you’re on.
Vli5156's work for the Collect Information step:
Summary
I collected information for this gym by going there and gathering pictures. I also observed the students in their physical education lessons to understand what needs to be improvised in the gym.
These are the partitions that separates the gym and the hall which connects to the auditorium stage...
This shows the southeast side of the gym and the closet as well as the door that leads the stairs.
This is the top of the gym, the indoor track. This view also shows the windows on the second floor.
This is a better view of how the partitions in the gym looks. There are door cut outs in them.
Vli5156's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:
Summary
To solve any problems or to implement any other features into the gym, I started to think of ideas that can be placed into the existing gym and drew them into a bubble diagram.
The First bubble diagram shows two newly proposed areas. I would like to suggest having an extra...
The second bubble diagram shows a new proposed area. In this area, I've kept the idea of a...
Vli5156's work for the Develop Solutions step:
Summary
On my way to developing solutions for the problems I proposed in my brainstorming, I found
I've decided to keep the original plan on the first floor gym, but get rid of the other...
I extended the original gym outward towards the west. This new room (entrance to it shown in the...
This volleyball/tennis court is next to the original basketball court and contains two hoops at the...
Vli5156's work for the Final Design step:
Summary
These are the final designs of the gym that I recreated after developing the solutions
3D Rendering of the second floor balcony on top of the volleyball field / basketball field.
Section View - South side of the gym
Level 1 is where the gym starts and is on a lower level...