Redesign Your School Athletic Pavilion | 2014 National High School Architecture Competition #158

05/06/14
This is my thought process for the indoor track I plan to incorporate. 1. Started off with the general track. I added windows along the East, South, and West exposures to benefit from natural lighting. 2. I decided to add a small indoor soccer field so the students can have a place to play soccer. I specifically added an indoor soccer field because since my school does not have sports teams, maybe this will get the ball rolling for the proposal for athletics at school. 3 I thought about how the students would get into the field without crashing into the students using the track. So what better way to avoid them than to elevate the track. Once elevated, I decided to add curtain wall along the track to prevent the students from falling. 4. One thing I did not consider immediately was about the ingress/egress of the track. I had to do adjustments to the size of the track and the location in order to get the stairs to fit. I also recessed the soccer field three feet to divide the spaces a bit more. 5. This is just a sketch of what the section would look like. It shows how the spaces would be in relation to each other.