Design Challenge Background
The challenge is to redesign your high school’s athletic facilities into an athletic pavillion. With national organizations emphasizing the importance of regular phyical activity to combat obesity, these spaces are more important (and used!) than ever. They are becoming communty spaces and spaces for connecting, cheering, and improving lifestyles.
Design Challenge Brief
You may redesign the interior of the existing athletic facilities, expand on the existing spaces, or design a completely new addition on to your school building. Your design should contain all the spaces and functions required for typical school athletic facilities – locker rooms, athletic equipment storage rooms, concession stands, trophy cases, water fountains, offices for athletics staff, bathrooms, exercise and weight rooms, and, of course, gym spaces. The redesigned pavillion should include ideas for both old and new ideas for athletic facilities. You should also consider sustainability issues and the environmental impact of your design.
For your Overview, it is important to post a short, but clear, ‘success statement’ that communicates the goals you hope to solve and achieve through your design solutions. When you’re nearly finished with your design project, you can go back to this success statement to see if your design has met the criteria you first proposed.
Comments
-Good bubble diagrams of the program
-Final floor plans would be great
-Building massing could be better composed to produce a more legible form
Your initial research is great, you clearly showed programs that you wish to accommodate in your new facility and the sizes of the spaces. You also showed a comparison of what programs other competing schools are offering - which is great for getting sponsorship for building new facilities. Your bubble diagrams are nice, however they don't seems to translate into your final design. The overall scale, relationship and sizes of spaces seems appropriate in your rendering and floor plans. Site context and existing floor plans could have been helpful for us to relate to your final design.