James Devlin Gym

This is my design for the James Devlin Competition. I will show how I put this together step by step with the design process.

The problem posed in this design challenge is to build a gym in Philadelphia that fits the area. That is safe during the pandemic and that can help with rehabilitation and can also be a flexible space with modularity. Also be good place to train and improve health.

During this process I did some research on a variety of different random topics that you would need in a gym.

For this process I re watched the video I watched earlier in the process to refresh and remind me of the goals of the gym. This was helpful because as I watched the video I wrote down some ideas that I could research later. After this step I researched some topics like door sizes, gym size, equipment for rehab, gym membership prices, things to help with Covid, and more. This was also probably the step that felt the longest because I had to sit on my computer scrolling aimlessly through websites that I really didn't want to, but in the end I think I found some good information.

This part of the design process is one of the biggest ones I think. I did multiple little activities and lots of research for this step.

I did some sketches of some very basic Ideas, hoping that I could build off of that first sketch. The first sketch was about 80 ft by 180 ft (which I realize now is an insane length) it had a rehab center, a welcome desk, a workout center, an education center, an indoor pool, staff breakroom, bathrooms, and lockers. While making my sketches I had to take into account some of the research I had done. Using my research I had to try and use some of the information I found, and include it into my sketch. This process was probably the most fun. It was fun because I got to do some activities that required creativity, I got to learn a bit more about 3D modeling, and I got to create a sketch based off of what I designed.

This part was definitely the most fun part by far. It was also probably the most difficult one because I had to learn all about a new tool, and a new skill that I knew absolutely nothing about.

My first room was the front desk. My second was room was stairs and elevator. That would be used for getting up and down from the floors. The third room is the workout area. This would have most of the equipment to workout. It would have some treadmills, elliptical, rowers, a few bench press/squat, pull up rack and probably a space with rollers, yoga mats, medicine balls, and yoga balls. My fourth room would be the locker room for changing and putting your stuff out of the way. This would also have bathrooms. My fifth room is the pool. This room would be for swimming in the pool. My sixth room is the workout class room. This room is on the second floor and it would a room closed in with a class. There would be a certain amount of mats and light weights for yoga or Pilates. My seventh room would be rehabilitation. This room would have the rehab equipment and a trainer. My eighth room would be the break room. This would be for workers to eat and chill and also have meetings. This could have a refrigerator for staff to put food. The ninth room would be the storage room since the classes room would be a variety of different things there is a storage room on the second floor for it. So my building has 9 rooms in all.

In this step, I decided that the gym felt like it would be to crammed in with the area I made so I expanded the lot size and I did it because he said he wanted modularity so the space would give more room to be flexible and move things. Also I decided to add a pool because I felt that was needed.