Redesign Your School Athletic Pavilion | 2014 National High School Architecture Competition #123
|As a school without sports and with a primary focus on education and using technology throughout the classes, the physical education and fitness division has gradually been deprived of any further development or improvement and as shown does a poor job to work for the school’s student body and the unique uses they have towards the gymnasium and all. Thought the improvements needed to make this division successful and better used does not need to include having sports in the school maybe it can be added further along when the gymnasium is in better conditions. One of the unique uses of the gymnasium is that the music department uses it for performances as the music division as well as no stable location and is placed as an add-on next to the gymnasium and what might work better is to include it with the building that will be the gymnasium as well as including better acoustics for the need of performances of band and orchestra and as well as having those two departments separately as each division requires space for the placement of instruments and so perhaps there can be a better design of those two groups. Another thing to needs to be looked at is to have a better relationship between the gymnasium and the school as the gymnasium seems so far away from the main building that is the school and provide a better trail to those to buildings as perhaps a second floor hall towards the gym so that the two buildings are connected can help the students move from class to class and prevent them from any tardiness. And lastly focus on other ways to interest the students to be more active as obesity is a serious manner that needs to have more attention on reducing it in the teen population and so concluding, include more “fun” and interesting ways to do exercise such as dance classes or any type of martial arts and so on. As well as improving the training room with better equipment and perhaps a better relation to the outdoors as it can have a better view and can include more equipment other than weights as cardio and aerobics is essential to fitness as well as lifting. The point of the new pavilion should be to have it better adjusted and fitting to the student body not just have an athlete’s dreamland as the pavilion should be well suited and customized to Advanced Technologies Academy and the unique uses the school have for the gym as this gym can act as a multiple purpose area as it is well suited for any other event such as open house, talent shows and award events.