Renovation and Expansion of Wannan Gym at Sidwell Friends School - 2014 National High School Architecture Competition - Nikhil Chaudhuri

05/04/14
Above are two rough sketches that I did when ideas came into my head all of a sudden. On the left is a physical and conceptual drawing of the structure that I did on a chalkboard in a random classroom at school. The eye motif is apparent in the sketch on the left and my early idea of using the circular shape to inclose some sort of slanted structure. You can also see that there are two awnings, one for the upper school side and one for the middle school side. The picture on the right is a quick sketch I did right after I woke up one morning on a piece of tissue paper. It shows an early form of the structure for the main court encasement, with the slanted concrete lines for the walls and then meeting on the roof to form a diamond pattern with the slanted lines from the perpendicular side.