Redesign Your School Athletic Pavilion | 2014 National High School Architecture Competition #140
|Advanced Technologies was in 1994 with the exception of not having a gym which was built in 2000. During the new age of the 2000's the gym seemed to fit the current needs of the population that attended A-TECH. As of now that is certainly not the case! Now our gym seems to overcrowd and we often have the issue of finding space for all of our students. Instead of having one assembly for the student body, we have to have two separate ones just so we can get the message out to all of students, which becomes a hassle when it comes to scheduling and classes. In 2002 A-TECH sought out to create a bigger space for it students, they expanded the school, except for the gym. The school's population got so big and so dense that A-TECH had to use portables to fit the size requirements of the students taking gym classes.
The problem simple is, THERE IS NO ROOM. The locker rooms are extremely tiny and the students have to share lockers with more than a few people! It becomes a hassle when you often lose your things just because the rooms are so cramped up. Another issue we face is the fact that the school completely avoids the band rooom. The band room is located in a portable which is completely, "NO-BUENO." Our band deserves to have a room to itself that doesn't constantly have issues with air conditioning and heating. The arts should be funded back and what better way to do so then incorporate the band room into this design?
A-TECH'S gym is also costly due to the lighting and the sound system (which by the way does not work very well.) It's also extremely unappealing to the eyes due to the school district's inability to pick natural colors. These desert common colors are simply not doing the job anymore.
Our school deserves a new gym because we so mainly focus on the academic sides of our Blue Ribbon school. The only solution to this problem is to keep adding on. And included the issues that we want to address in our design. So this means a bigger gym, new rooms, bigger locker rooms, and all sorts of other problems that could possibly maker our gym a better gym. Now this is all fun and games so why not think outside the box and include a band room and other classrooms to the design? It seems to me, the more the merrier.