Redesign Your School Athletic Pavilion | 2014 National High School Architecture Competition #166

Summary

Besides my personal experience of taking PE for two years and having to deal with the GYM on a near daily basis, I collected photographs of the current building as well as some designs on the main building that were supposed to be incorporated into the design of the gym. I also asked some friends about their personal opinion of the design to see if there were any other suggestions for a redesign that i might have missed. The suggestions made by the PE teachers was passed on to me through my Architecture teacher. Using Google Earth, i roughly gathered the dimensions of the site that i could work within.

Conditions in need of being fixed:
-field is uneven and full of rocks
- glass block wall facing afternoon sun (makes it so that you cant see in the weight room)
-Locker rooms are too small to accommodate all the students taking PE
-Accoustics
-Not enough storage space
-Outdoor courts are oriented the wrong way. equipment is being lost

Recommendations made:
-Make the locker rooms bigger
-Get rid of the baseball field
-More equipment storage
-Reorient the outdoor ball courts or add higher fences or both
-Shade structures with seating
-Auxiliary gym
-exercise stations