Gym Design Challenge

This is the Gym Design Challenge. We did this challenge for an Engineering class. It was a pretty fun project to do.

For this project I need to design a gym that many people can use and encourages health for athletes who are recovering from bad injuries. I need to create an instructable of the gym which needs to include pictures and words. After I create the instructable I need to create a design of the gym that I plan to create.

I began to research what other gyms have and what some people like in gyms. One of the things I researched was what kinds of equipment are commonly in gyms. Some of the stuff I found was treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes, free weights, dumbbells, bands, benches,etc. Majority of gyms have those things when I looked up what equipment gyms have. The next step was for me to research how many of each thing most gyms have on average. Most small gyms have 6-7 exercise bikes and the big gyms have 15-20. For treadmills small gyms have 2-3 and for big gyms they have 10-50. For steppers small gyms have 2-3 and big gyms have 10-30. All of that equipment has to have space in between them for people to move around so I researched how much space needs to be in between each thing. The answers I got were treadmills have to have 48 inches on all sides of it, exercise bikes have to have 8 inches on all sides, and stair climbers have to have 8 inches as well on all sides. After I did some research on the items most gyms include I did some research on what gyms had extra such as if they had a swimming pool and extra rooms. Some gyms have swimming pools. I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate a swimming pool because that is what they use for physical therapy if someone is trying to heal a broken leg or something. For the extra rooms in the gym I wanted to have those in their because some gyms according to research that I did can have yoga in they or fitness classes and its good to have private rooms for that.

I thought about my gym design for a while. One of the things I wanted to incorporate in my design was a basketball court. I gave it some thought and I decided that it would be more beneficial to have a pool because it can help with physical therapy more than a basketball court can. They use the pool for people with something like a broken leg that they are trying to heal and they put them in the pool as a form of physical therapy. Some of the other things that I thought about was where to put the bathrooms. I ended up putting them in the front so people can change if they are coming in and out of the gym if they wanted to and its easy access for when they need to use the bathroom.

I had some problems that I ran into when creating my model. I had just started building my model and somehow it all deleted so I had to start all fresh over. I started with making a big cube and I cut out the rooms and leaving a little in the middle of each room to serve as the walls. I then duplicated that so it would be the same size and I took out all of the walls I had in it and added the track. That would soon be my 2nd floor. I added it on top of the 1st floor then I put a roof on top of the second flood with the race track. Beside the two story building I added a pool center. I put a block down then I cut out where I wanted the pool and the walls. Then I added a roof to that too.

Not all things went as planned. In my original design I wanted to have a basketball court instead of a swimming pool. Then I decided that it would be more beneficial to have a swimming pool instead of a basketball court because they use a swimming pool to help people recover from an injury such as a broken leg.