This project began as a result of the love and community that exercising and going to gyms has provided, a feeling that can be, and should be shared with others. Furthermore creating a gym that can be more functional and focuses more on community can help bring out the best in gyms and help people of different communities come together and share a love of fitness.
 

To implement this project, the employment of the design thinking methodology, which is:

• Creating a goal

• Planning out steps to achieve this goal

• Researching to understand how to approach these steps

• Creating concepts based on research to sketch out ideas 

• Creating the actual product and implying my research and steps

 

Interviews were conducted between people in my neighborhood, people I met at different training facilities, my trainer, etc. 

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I learned that many people not only see but experience many flaws in gyms they attend. Specifically many people that I had interviewed claimed that gyms either had too much unnecessary equipment, did not have good transition places from the outside of the gym to beginning a workout, or not using space appropriately to organize different sections or machinery in the gyms.
 

I then learned how to use Sketch Up as I had never used it before. Once I did that, I began working on my designs. I created these three types of gyms because they could be used as more functional design concepts that could be implemented in different scenarios and places, such as a warehouse gym, an apartment building or hotel gym, or a small storefront space.

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Here are my key takeaways:

1. Stay persistent: Continuing to work on researching best ideas and making them feasible by improving upon them and taking the steps to develop your ideas to the best of your ability.

2. Persevere: There were tools and methods I didn’t know how to utilize before beginning this project, but I persevered and eventually learned my way through. 

3. Do thorough research: Make sure not to cut any corners and to research all your information in order to provide the best version of your work. 

4. Focus on user experience: Throughout this process, I’ve always tried to put myself in the user's shoes. This has helped me design spaces for others rather than for myself.